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Definition of Myliobatidae
1. Noun. Eagle rays.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Batoidei, Order Batoidei, Order Rajiformes, Rajiformes
Member holonyms: Eagle Ray, Aetobatus, Genus Aetobatus, Genus Rhinoptera, Rhinoptera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myliobatidae
Literary usage of Myliobatidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... greatly produced, extending over the tail and forming a rayed wreath-like
projection over the snout, is known from the Lower Cretaceous. Myliobatidae. ..."
2. Kansas; a Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1912)
"Under selachians are included the myliobatidae, or upper Cretaceous selachians;
... The living members of the myliobatidae are the sea devils, many of which ..."
3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"The specimen proves that the peculiarly effective disposition characteristic of
the living Myliobatidae had not been assumed, ..."
4. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"Myliobatidae. 11 tiller and Henle. Eagle-rays. Trunk much depressed, forming a
broad disk with the very large pectoral fins, which are interrupted at the ..."
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