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Definition of Blennioidea
1. Noun. Blennies; butterfishes; gunnels.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Blennioid, Blennioid Fish, Blenniidae, Family Blenniidae, Clinidae, Family Clinidae, Family Pholidae, Family Pholididae, Pholidae, Family Stichaeidae, Stichaeidae, Anarhichadidae, Family Anarhichadidae, Family Zoarcidae, Zoarcidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blennioidea
Literary usage of Blennioidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... and Blennioidea. In those types we have in some a tendency to flattening of
the head, of anterior development of the dorsal fin, a simple basis cranii, ..."
2. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"E. blennioidea Rafinesque. GREEN-SIDED DARTER. Body elongate, little compressed,
the. head thick, its profile very convex; eyes large, high up, ..."
3. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1905)
"Group Blennioidea. Body more or less elongate, naked or with .scales, large or
small; ventral fins small, more or less advanced in position, often wanting, ..."
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