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Definition of Genus Arius

1. Noun. Type genus of the Ariidae: sea catfishes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Arius

Literary usage of Genus Arius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Finally, of the widely-distributed genus Arius, which we have already mentioned from the English Eocene, there is evidence of two Siwalik species; ..."

2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"In the genus Arius, and some allied marine forms, the males appear to carry their ova in their mouths, perhaps until the young are produced. ..."

3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1889)
"... 1 also refer to the genus Arius. Beides differences of size, which in part no doubt are due to age, these otoliths present several distinct forms, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The genus Arius is composed of a great number of species and has the widest distribution of all ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"His genus Arius, of 1862, comprises two distinct types, one with the buckler oblong, represented by the Arius ..."

6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"... and a recent discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Barton Clay s has confirmed the occurrence of the recent genus Arius in the English Middle and ..."

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