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Definition of Genus lutjanus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Lutjanidae, Lutjanidae
Member holonyms: Lutjanus Blackfordi, Red Snapper, Gray Snapper, Grey Snapper, Lutjanus Griseus, Mangrove Snapper, Lutjanus Apodus, Schoolmaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lutjanus
Literary usage of Genus lutjanus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... a rather numerous assemblage of fishes belonging to the genus Lutjanus and
related genera, usually considered as belonging to the family ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"ACERINA, CuV., Are distinguished by concavities in the bones of the 1 The majority
of them are included in the genus Lutjanus of Bl., but were there mixed ..."
3. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... The genus Lutjanus is found everywhere in tropical waters, and fish resembling
the Red Snapper occur everywhere throughout the West Indies. ..."
4. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1890)
"... genus is peculiarly unfortunate, for besides the lack of euphony in the name,
the genus has neither resemblance to nor affinity with the genus Lutjanus. ..."
5. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia: With a Systematic List by Edward Drinker Cope (1875)
"... as the Yellow, Streaked, Spotted, and Black Grunts, all of which probably
belong to this family, if not to this genus. LUTJANUS CAXIS, (Schneider) ..."
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