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Definition of Psenes
1. Noun. A genus of Stromateidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Stromateidae, Stromateidae
Member holonyms: Driftfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psenes
Literary usage of Psenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"psenes, CMC. $ Vol. ix. p. 259. Body compressed, elevated, covered with rather
small cycloid scales ; cleft of the mouth narrow, with the muzzle above ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"I) SI Eigenmann on a New psenes from Newport, Rhode Island. — In the Bulletin of
the United States Fish Commission, Dr. CH Eigenmann describes a new oceanic ..."
3. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"THE INTRODUCTION OF BLASTOPHAGA psenes INTO CALIFORNIA. ... The living Blastophaga
psenes was received in California the 25th of July this year, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"All three generations harbor the fig insect, Blastophaga psenes, * which lives
inside the ovaries, converting the seed into a gall. ..."
5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus psenes Cuvier and Valenciennes. Body rather deep and compressed; mouth
small, overhung by the swollen snout; jaw teeth in a single series; ..."
6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"Genus psenes, Cuv. & Val. Body compressed, elevated, covered with rather small
cycloid scales ... Indian and Australian Seas. 383. psenes LEUCURUS, Jenyns. ..."
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