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Definition of Elopidae
1. Noun. Tarpons and ladyfishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Isospondyli, Order Isospondyli
Member holonyms: Genus Tarpon, Elops, Genus Elops
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elopidae
Literary usage of Elopidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letter of Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Dated 1484 by Diego Alvarez Chanca, Augstine Marcus Fernández de Ybarra (1907)
"... investigated and elucidated by Dr. WG Ridewood in a well illustrated article "
On the Cranial Osteology of the Fishes of the Families Elopidae and Albu- ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"Most of the species belong to the family of Elopidae, which represents one of
the earlier types of bony fishes. In the Occasional Papers of the Boston ..."
3. 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)
"It is included in the family Elopidae, and after many nomenclatural vicissitudes
is now, according to Dr. Jordan, Tarpon atlanticus (Cuvier and Val. ..."
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