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Definition of Genus Holocentrus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Holocentridae; squirrelfishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Holocentridae, Holocentridae
Member holonyms: Holocentrus Coruscus, Reef Squirrelfish, Deepwater Squirrelfish, Holocentrus Bullisi, Holocentrus Ascensionis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Holocentrus
Literary usage of Genus Holocentrus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"genus Holocentrus SCOPOLI The Squirrel-fishes Body oblong, moderately compressed,
ventral outline nearly straight, the back a little elevated, ..."
2. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"Vent nearly medial. The generic name means fine tail. It differs principally from
the genus Holocentrus, by the head, scaly gill cover and singular ..."
3. Book of the Black Bass: Comprising Its Complete Scientific and Life History by James Alexander Henshall (1881)
"Vent nearly medial. The generic name means fine-tail. It differs principally from
the genus Holocentrus, by the head, scaly gill-cover and singular ..."
4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The species are active, pugnacious, carnivorous, but not especially voracious,
the mouth being usually small. The genus Holocentrus is characterized by the ..."
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