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Definition of Genus Ammodytes
1. Noun. Type genus of the Ammodytidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Ammodytidae, Family Ammodytidae
Member holonyms: Launce, Sand Eel, Sand Lance, Sand Launce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ammodytes
Literary usage of Genus Ammodytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus Ammodytes has the dorsal fin extending nearly the whole length of the
back, the anal long, and both separated from the caudal, which is forked. ..."
2. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The genus Ammodytes has the dorsal fin extending nearly the whole length of the
back, the anal long, and both separated from the caudal, which is forked The ..."
3. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"... between the point of the snout and the commencement of the anal fin ; none of
which characters are possessed by the common eel. genus Ammodytes. ..."
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