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Definition of Genus Mustelus
1. Noun. Smooth dogfishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Triakidae, Triakidae
Member holonyms: American Smooth Dogfish, Mustelus Canis, Florida Smoothhound, Mustelus Norrisi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mustelus
Literary usage of Genus Mustelus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"Thresher. This is a common species, frequently taken on hooks baited for other fish.
Genus MUSTELUS. Mustelus canis. Dog-fish. Quite common, and met with as ..."
2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1899)
"Zygoma, on the other hand, has a circular eyelid like Carch-arim, but the
nictitating membrane is less fully developed than in this genus. MUSTELUS. ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"(sometimes Smooth Hound), the Old World name for all the sharks of the genus
Mustelus (" the Hell-hound of the Deep"); applied specially in New South Wales ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A name more common in Great Britain than in America for the 'dogfish' of the
genus Mustelus, especially the blue or 'smooth' hound {Mustelus corn's), ..."
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