Definition of Genus cetorhinus

1. Noun. Comprising only the basking sharks; in some classifications considered the type genus of a separate family Cetorhinidae.

Exact synonyms: Cetorhinus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Lamnidae, Lamnidae
Member holonyms: Basking Shark, Cetorhinus Maximus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cetorhinus

genus Cercidiphyllum
genus Cercidium
genus Cercis
genus Cercocebus
genus Cercopithecus
genus Cercospora
genus Cercosporella
genus Cereus
genus Certhia
genus Cervus
genus Ceryle
genus Cestrum
genus Cestum
genus Ceterach
genus Cetonia
genus Cetorhinus
genus Cetraria
genus Chaenactis
genus Chaenomeles
genus Chaenopsis
genus Chaetodipterus
genus Chaetodon
genus Chalcis
genus Chalcostigma
genus Chamaea
genus Chamaecrista
genus Chamaecyparis
genus Chamaecytisus
genus Chamaedaphne
genus Chamaeleo

Literary usage of Genus cetorhinus

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

1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Reduced. they approximate to the teeth of the next family : they have, however, solid crowns. The genus Cetorhinus ..."

2. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Reduced. they approximate to the teeth of the next Miocene of the Con- . ° family : they have, however, solid crowns. The genus Cetorhinus ..."

3. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"The great basking sharks, genus Cetorhinus, which reach a length of nearly forty feet, often gather in numbers and float motionless on the surface of the ..."

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