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Definition of Genus Selene
1. Noun. A genus of Carangidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Carangidae, Family Carangidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Selene
Literary usage of Genus Selene
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)
"Genus SELENE. Selene argentea. Described by Brevoort, in Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist.
NY, vol. v. No specimen has been seen by the author. ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Colour, rich silvery, with an iridescence of steel-blue above and pink below,
with a light golden wash below. genus Selene ..."
3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"... the genus Selene (fig. 113). Similar changes take place in Alectis, Vomer,
and other genera. The Development of Flounders. ..."
4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus SELENE Lacepede. Moon-fishes. Marine fishes of very peculiar shape, body
greatly compressed and much elevated, anterior profile very steep, ..."
5. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"... it is not distinguished by the fishermen from Selene vomer. It reaches a length
of a foot, and is a good food fish, but is seldom marketed. Genus SELENE ..."
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