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Definition of Sillago
1. Noun. Type genus of the Sillaginidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sillaginidae, Sillaginidae
Member holonyms: Whiting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillago
Literary usage of Sillago
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"From the Red Soa to the southern coasts of Australia. I. Sillago ... Sillago burrus,
Richards. Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. His/. 1842, ix. p. ..."
2. Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales by Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods (1883)
"This contains our sand whiting, Sillago maculata, Quoy and Gaim, Plate XVII.
The body is covered with small ctenoid scales, the cleft of the mouth small and ..."
3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"A curious habit of both species {Sillago maculata and 5. ciliata) is perhaps
worth mentioning—when, finding themselves enclosed by the seine, they burrow in ..."
4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"Port Jackson; Brisbane; Cape York. 415. Sillago CILIATA, Cuv. ... Sillago GRACILIS,
All. & Macl. Proc. Linn. Soc. NS Wales, Vol. I., p. 279, pi. 6, fig. 2. ..."
5. Notes on the Food Fishes and Edible Mollusca of New South Wales, Etc., Etc by E. P. Ramsay (1883)
"A curious habit of both species (Sillago maculata and S. ciliata) is perhaps ...
The Common Sand- Whiting, Sillago maculata, abundant on the New South Wales ..."
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