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Definition of Tetragonurus
1. Noun. A genus of Stromateidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Stromateidae, Stromateidae
Member holonyms: Squaretail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetragonurus
Literary usage of Tetragonurus
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 (1861)
"Air-bladder none. Pyloric appendages numerous. 3. Tetragonurus. ... is divided
into natural families, Tetragonurus has no affinity whatever either to ..."
2. A History of British Quadrupeds.: Illustrated by Thirty-four Plates, with by William MacGillivray (1838)
"... are very divergent in the young state, and never closely appressed. This is
the Common Shrew of the present work, p. 123. 2. S. tetragonurus, Herm. ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1841)
"In a second specimen, however, of the S. tetragonurus the number of caudal
vertebrae was as many as 16, whilst in a second of the S. Hibernicus it was only ..."
4. A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea by Thomas Bell, Robert F. Tomes, Edward Richard Alston (1874)
"... with the Sorex tetragonurus of Herman, to which he referred it. In his second
paper, which appeared in the Annals of Natural History for the same year, ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1844)
"As the description of this species would be in most respects the same as that of
Sorex Tetragonurus, it will be enough here to point out the circumstances ..."
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