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Definition of Sciaenidae
1. Noun. Warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Sciaenid, Sciaenid Fish, Equetus, Genus Equetus, Bairdiella, Genus Bairdiella, Genus Sciaenops, Sciaenops, Genus Sciaena, Sciaena, Genus Micropogonias, Micropogonias, Genus Umbrina, Umbrina, Genus Menticirrhus, Menticirrhus, Genus Genyonemus, Genyonemus, Genus Seriphus, Seriphus, Cynoscion, Genus Cynoscion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciaenidae
Literary usage of Sciaenidae
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)
"The swimming bladder is peculiar, by the horn-like processes it exhibits.
SYN.—Sciaenidae, BONAP. Sagg. distr. anim. vertebr. 1831, 104.—STORER, Synops. ..."
2. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"... Sciaenidae, and Carangidae, which visit the Australian shores in vast shoals.
From among these, fisheries might be formed, which, if carried on under ..."
3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"... Sciaenidae, and Carangidae, which visit the Australian shores in vast shoals.
From among these fisheries might be formed, which, if carried on under ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"The species fed to the hag-fish is in another paper described as a new genus of
Sciaenidae under the name of Cilas ..."
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