|
|
Definition of Genus Gobio
1. Noun. True gudgeons.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Cyprinidae, Family Cyprinidae
Member holonyms: Gobio Gobio, Gudgeon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gobio
Literary usage of Genus Gobio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"I am well aware that the position of this species in the genus Gobio is not
natural, as it has neither the particular cut of the outline of the head which ..."
2. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Yar., i. 305; Couch, iv. t. 180, p. 4. Carp. In the Exeter Canal, and railway
ponds; sometimes taken of large size. GENUS, GOBIO ..."
3. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"... no intimate relation with the European genus Gobio, which is an ally of
A'e/»o<t/ws, with the teeth 3, 5-5, 3, and the barbel lateral and very long. ..."
4. Notes on Fish and Fishing by John Jackson Manley (1877)
"... with his leathery, toothless mouth, and a " barbel" at each side of it; and
the Ichthyologists have assigned him to the genus Gobio. ..."
Other Resources:
