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Definition of Genus caranx

1. Noun. Type genus of the Carangidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Caranx

Literary usage of Genus caranx

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

1. Naval Hygiene by James Duncan Gatewood (1909)
"However, in the genus Caranx there is at least one variety that has the ... However, as many of the genus Caranx are more or less important as food fishes, ..."

2. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"The fish might probably constitute a separate genus, it has, however, been instituted merely from a drawing. Amongst the figured species of the genus Caranx ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"In some of the species of the genus Caranx the scaly plates are observable only on the posterior half of the lateral line, and the anterior part is ..."

4. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus caranx has a lateral line more or less mailed with scaly plates, carinated, and frequently spinous. It contains the Yellow Mackerel, C. chrysos, ..."

5. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"... total length of the head and body, while the pectorals formed a pair of backwardly- directed tapering spines. In the typical genus Caranx the body is ..."

6. Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1870)
"... The genus caranx has a lateral line more or less mailed with scaly plates, carinated,. and frequently spinous. It contains the Yellow Mackerel, ..."

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