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Definition of Orthopristis

1. Noun. A genus of Haemulidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthopristis

Literary usage of Orthopristis

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)
"THE PIG-FISH (Orthopristis chrysopterus) Another pan-fish belonging to the grunt family and common to the waters of Florida, and one much esteemed as a ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"THE PIG FISH (Orthopristis chrysopterus) Another pan-fish belonging to the grunt family and common to the waters of Florida, and one much esteemed as a ..."

3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus Orthopristis Girard. Pig-fishes. Rather small fishes with oblong, ... (Orthopristis, straight saw, in allusion to the evenly serrated preopercle. ..."

4. The Fishes of Panama Bay by Charles Henry Gilbert, Edwin Chapin Starks (1904)
"Orthopristis brevipinnis (Steindachner). PLATE XV, FIG. 30. ... The scales in the species of Orthopristis are more nearly uniform in size than current ..."

5. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"GENUS Orthopristis GIRARD The ... Colour, pearly gray, darker above; each scale of back and side with a Orthopristis forbesi is known only from Albemarle ..."

6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1859)
"I. Orthopristis.—Mouth small ; upper and lower jaws provided with small, conical teeth. Edge of preopercle nearly straight and finely serrated. ..."

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