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Definition of Albula vulpes
1. Noun. Slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons.
Generic synonyms: Malacopterygian, Soft-finned Fish
Group relationships: Albula, Genus Albula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Albula Vulpes
Literary usage of Albula vulpes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"CHAPTER XVIII MISCELLANEOUS FISHES THE LADY-FISH (Albula vulpes) Attain vulpes.
The Lady-fish. Body rather elongate, little compressed, covered with rather ..."
2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"Catesby, in 1837, called the lady-fish (Albula vulpes) of the Bahamas " bone-fish,"
while Captain William Dampier, one of the early explorers, ..."
3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Albula vulpes is a brilliantly silvery fish, little valued as food.
The metamorphosis (see Fig. 112, Vol. I) which the larva undergoes is very remarkable. ..."
4. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1905)
"Albula vulpes (Linn;eus). ••<>'„,." Fig. 9. Head 3.75 in length; depth 5; D.
In; A. S; scales 9-71-7; ..."
5. The Big Game Fishes of the United States: A Collection of Critical Essays by Charles Burton Martin, Viktor Aleksandrovich Maksunov, Charles Frederick Holder, Amiya Chandra Chakravarty, David Malet Armstrong (1903)
"The tarpon is literally a gigantic cousin of the herrings, and its ties to the
gamy ten-pounder, Elops saurus, and bone-fish, Albula vulpes, are still ..."
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