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Definition of Ophiodon
1. Noun. A genus of Ophiodontidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Ophiodontidae, Ophiodontidae
Member holonyms: Lingcod, Ophiodon Elongatus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiodon
Literary usage of Ophiodon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"Fig. 3, a scale from the abdominal region. List of specimens. Ophiodon ...
Ophiodon, GRD. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. VII, 1854, 133. ..."
2. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"GENERAL SURVEY OF THE BLOOD VESSELS IN Ophiodon. Since the blood of a fish passes
around in a circle, it matters but little where we begin. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"Palatine and vomerine teeth; a skinny flap above each orbit; scales ctenoid.
(Gir.) Coast of California. 2. Ophiodon. Ophiodon, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. ..."
4. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"Palatine and vomerine teeth ; a skinny flap above each orbit; scales ctenoid.
(Gir.) Coast of California. 2. Ophiodon. Ophiodon, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. ..."
5. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Cultus Cod, Ophiodon elongatus (Girard). Sitka, Alaska. mus of Japan differs in the
... Ophiodon elongatus, the blue cod, cultus cod, or Buffalo cod of ..."
6. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"The Cultus Cod, Ophiodon elongates, is universally called " Cod-fish," where the
true cod is unknown. About Puget Sound the English call it "Ling. ..."