Definition of Genus Trachurus

1. Noun. The scads (particularly horse mackerels).

Exact synonyms: Trachurus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Carangidae, Family Carangidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Trachurus

genus Tofieldia
genus Tolmiea
genus Tolypeutes
genus Tomistoma
genus Toona
genus Torreya
genus Tortrix
genus Townsendia
genus Toxicodendron
genus Toxostoma
genus Toxotes
genus Trachinotus
genus Trachipterus
genus Trachodon
genus Trachurus (current term)
genus Tradescantia
genus Tragelaphus
genus Tragopan
genus Tragopogon
genus Tragulus
genus Trapa
genus Trautvetteria
genus Trema
genus Tremella
genus Treponema
genus Triaenodon
genus Trialeurodes
genus Triatoma
genus Tribolium

Literary usage of Genus Trachurus

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"His library was bought by Bryn Mawr College. SAUREL. A small active carangid marine fish of the genus Trachurus. One species (Trachurus sauras) ..."

2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... D. macarellus, which is found in the warmer parts of the Atlantic. It strays northward on our coast to Cape Cod. The genus Trachurus ..."

3. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"genus Trachurus.—First dorsal fin very short, the second very long ; operculum furnished with a strong sharp spine directed backwards ..."

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