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Definition of Genus fistularia

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Fistulariidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fistularia

Literary usage of Genus fistularia

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

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... which were regarded by M. de Blainville as belonging to the genus Fistularia of Lamarck, to the number of four or more, the half of which arc doubtful, ..."

2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"... tobacco-pipe fish) is the F. taba- caria of Linnaeus; and the aulostomus Chinensis, improperly separated from the genus fistularia, is the F. Chinensis ..."

3. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"Genus FISTULARIA.—(Lin.-) 1716. The skull (with the first four vertebrae attached) of the slender Fistularia or Tobacco-pipe Fish. Showing the great length ..."

4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus FISTULARIA Linnaeus. Trumpet-fishes. Large shore fishes of warm seas, with characters as given above. The bony plates or shields are a strip in the ..."

5. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"In the inferior chalk there is one living genus, Fistularia; in the true chalk, live; and in the tertiary strata of M. Bolca, thirty-nine living genera, ..."

6. An Historical and Descriptive Account of China: Its Ancient and Modern by Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1836)
"Several species of the genus Labrus are native to the seas of China. The genus Fistularia of Linnaeus derives its name from the long tube-like muzzle, ..."

7. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"The name pipe-fish is also applied to the members of the genus Fistularia, or trumpet- fishes, included in the order ..."

8. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"In the genus Fistularia, the body is naked, the forked caudal fin has one or two of its middle rays produced into a long whip-like filament, and there are ..."

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