Definition of Genus Tautoga

1. Noun. Tautogs.

Exact synonyms: Tautoga
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Labridae, Labridae
Member holonyms: Blackfish, Tautog, Tautoga Onitis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tautoga

genus Tamarix
genus Tamias
genus Tamiasciurus
genus Tamus
genus Tanacetum
genus Tantilla
genus Tapirus
genus Taraktagenos
genus Taraktogenos
genus Taraxacum
genus Taricha
genus Tarpon
genus Tarrietia
genus Tarsius
genus Taurotragus
genus Tautoga (current term)
genus Tautogolabrus
genus Taxidea
genus Taxodium
genus Taxus
genus Tectaria
genus Tectona
genus Telanthera
genus Tellima
genus Telopea
genus Templetonia
genus Tenrec
genus Tephrosia
genus Terebella

Literary usage of Genus Tautoga

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1849)
"genus Tautoga. The Tautog.—Black Fish (Tautoga Americana}. These complete the list of those salt-water fish which are of any repute as affording sport to ..."

2. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"It appears to move about more than the other species, sustaining itself for a greater length of time in the water. Genus TAUTOGA. Tautoga onitis. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and the rock-cook (Centro- On the Atlantic coasts of the N. states of the United States the wrasses arc represented by the genus Tautoga. ..."

4. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"These fishes, though useful as scavengers, are a pest to fishermen on account of their habit of nibbling the bait from the hooks. The genus Tautoga contains ..."

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