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Definition of Genus Mullus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Mullidae, Mullidae
Member holonyms: Goatfish, Mullus Surmuletus, Red Mullet, Surmullet, Mullus Auratus, Red Goatfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mullus
Literary usage of Genus Mullus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"It was a species of the genus Mullus—Mullus barbatus—that was esteemed for the
excellence of its flesh as well as for the variety and beauty of its changing ..."
2. The Fishes of Zanzibar by Robert Lambert Playfair, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"... divisions of this family, established by Bleeker, are not of generic value;
we therefore propose to reunite them all under the genus Mullus of Linnaeus. ..."
3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"... of Europe and the tropics, are typically represented by the genus Mullus, of
which there appears to be but a single European species (Mullus barbatus). ..."
4. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature. by William Clowes and Sons (1884)
"GENUS Mullus.—The characters as those of the family. Teeth in the lower jaw and
on the vomer and palatine bones; none in the upper jaw. ..."
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