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Definition of Genus Mycteroperca

1. Noun. Groupers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mycteroperca

Literary usage of Genus Mycteroperca

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

1. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"A more strongly marked case, probably of earlier origin, is seen in several West Indian species of grouper or sea bass, belonging to the genus Mycteroperca. ..."

2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus MYCTEROPERCA Gill. Groupers. This genus contains many species of tropical marine food-fishes, mostly of large size, similar to Epinephelus but ..."

3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"genus Mycteroperca GILL Cranium broad and transversely concave between the eyes, its lateral crests very strong, nearly parallel with the supraoccipital ..."

4. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... genus Mycteroperca, which may be grouped together under the name " Rock-fish," the name by which all fishes of this genus are also known in Bermuda. ..."

5. Naval Hygiene by James Duncan Gatewood (1909)
"... sea basses include the genus Mycteroperca. The species Mycteroperca venenosa, or the yellow-fin grouper, is found from the Florida Keys southward among ..."

6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"A name in Florida for either of two species of grouper (qv), of the genus Mycteroperca, both excellent food-fishes. ..."

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