Definition of Tetragonurus

1. Noun. A genus of Stromateidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Tetragonurus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Stromateidae, Stromateidae
Member holonyms: Squaretail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetragonurus

Tethyan
Tethyidae
Tethys
Teton
Teton Range
Tetovo
Tetra Pak
Tetraclinis
Tetraclinis articulata
Tetradite
Tetradites
Tetragonia
Tetragonia expansa
Tetragonia tetragonioides
Tetragoniaceae
Tetragonurus (current term)
Tetragrammaton
Tetrahymena
Tetrameres
Tetraneuris
Tetraneuris acaulis
Tetraneuris grandiflora
Tetranychidae
Tetrao
Tetrao urogallus
Tetraodontidae
Tetraonidae
Tetrapturus
Tetratrichomonas
Tetris

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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