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Definition of Genus cetorhinus
1. Noun. Comprising only the basking sharks; in some classifications considered the type genus of a separate family Cetorhinidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Lamnidae, Lamnidae
Member holonyms: Basking Shark, Cetorhinus Maximus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cetorhinus
Literary usage of Genus cetorhinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Reduced. they approximate to the teeth of the next family : they have, however,
solid crowns. The genus Cetorhinus ..."
2. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Reduced. they approximate to the teeth of the next Miocene of the Con- . ° family :
they have, however, solid crowns. The genus Cetorhinus ..."
3. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"The great basking sharks, genus Cetorhinus, which reach a length of nearly forty
feet, often gather in numbers and float motionless on the surface of the ..."
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