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Definition of Genus scomberesox
1. Noun. A genus of Scomberesocidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Scomberesocidae, Family Scombresocidae, Scomberesocidae, Scombresocidae
Member holonyms: Billfish, Saury, Scomberesox Saurus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Scomberesox
Literary usage of Genus scomberesox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1886)
"In the Northern United States, as well as in the Mediterranean, it has a
representative of the genus Scomberesox, in which the jaws of its long snout arc ..."
2. A Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1868)
"In the Northern United States, as well as in the Mediterranean, it has a
representative of the genus Scomberesox, in which the jaws of its long snout are ..."
3. On the Natural History and Classification of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles. by William Swainson (1838)
"Of the sub-genus Scomberesox, also, only one species is British: it chiefly
differs from the last in having the hinder portion of the dorsal and anal fins ..."
4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"genus scomberesox.—Snout attenuated, greatly prolonged; teeth in both jaws, more
on the palatines or tongues ; dorsal and anal fins divided behind into ..."
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