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Definition of Beaked salmon
1. Noun. Fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand.
Generic synonyms: Malacopterygian, Soft-finned Fish
Group relationships: Genus Gonorhynchus, Gonorhynchus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaked Salmon
Literary usage of Beaked salmon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Both the head and body are completely covered with scales, of beaked salmon.
(One-third natural size) which the free edges are spinose; and the margin of ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"The beaked salmon occurs in the open seas of the Cape, Japan, and Australia; but in.
New Zealand, where it is known as the SAND-EEL, it is found in bays ..."
3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"... French naturalists till very recently promoted the kelt, or spawned salmon,
to a similar dignity, under the name of saumon bt'card, or beaked salmon ..."
4. The Salmon Fisheries by Charles Edward Fryer (1883)
"... or beaked salmon,1 it is not surprising that the international classification
of the different species of a genus of fish which are susceptible of such ..."
5. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1883)
"... or beaked salmon,1 it is not surprising that the international classification
of the different species of a genus of fish which are susceptible of such ..."
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