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Definition of Menticirrhus
1. Noun. Kingfishes; whiting.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sciaenidae, Sciaenidae
Member holonyms: Whiting, Kingfish, King Whiting, Menticirrhus Americanus, Menticirrhus Littoralis, Silver Whiting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menticirrhus
Literary usage of Menticirrhus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Mazatlan. littoralis the surf-whiting. The California whiting or sand- sucker is
menticirrhus ... 464—Kingfish, menticirrhus americanus (Linnaeus). ..."
2. The Fishes of Panama Bay by Charles Henry Gilbert, Edwin Chapin Starks (1904)
"... Umbrina xanti + Umbrina dorsalis -f- menticirrhus nasus menticirrhus panamensis
+ menticirrhus elongatus ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1920)
"Many large and wounded taken at latter place. menticirrhus AMERICANUS ...
menticirrhus SAXATILIS (Schneider). Atlantic City and Corson's Inlet, ..."
4. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1888)
"menticirrhus Gill. (Lat., mentum, chin; cirrus, barbel) a. ... (menticirrhus.)
b. Outer teeth of upper jaw very strong; lower lobe of C. not black. ..."
5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus menticirrhus Gill. Whitings. Small American shore fishes, most frequently
found on sandy bottom; characterized by elongate, little compressed body; ..."
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