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Definition of Pagellus centrodontus

1. Noun. Food fish of European coastal waters.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pagellus Centrodontus

Literary usage of Pagellus centrodontus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"The Pagellus centrodontus has a large black spot at the origin of the lateral line; while the acarne has the commencement of the lateral line perfectly ..."

2. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"The cast of an unusually fine example of the latter form, Pagellus centrodontus, having a length of twenty-two inches, and which weighed, when fresh from ..."

3. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"... but may, perhaps, prove to be the Common Sea Bream, Pagellus centrodontus. M. Risso says that in the Mediterranean this fish frequents deep water near ..."

4. A Cornish Fauna: Being a Compendium of the Natural History of the County by Jonathan Couch, Richard Quiller Couch (1878)
"... to which I have referred the fish now described, to be no other than our common Sea Bream : the Pagellus centrodontus of his own work. ..."

5. Handbook of the Marine and Fresh Water Fishes of the British Islands by William Saville Kent (1883)
"The cast of an unusually fine example of the latter form, Pagellus centrodontus, having a length of twenty-two inches, and which weighed, when fresh from ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1845)
"Chrysophrys microdon. Pagellus erythrinus. Pagellus mormyrus. Pagellus centrodontus. Boops Salpa. Boops vulgaris. Dentex vulgaris. Maena vulgaris. ..."

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