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Definition of Genus tautoga
1. Noun. Tautogs.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Labridae, Labridae
Member holonyms: Blackfish, Tautog, Tautoga Onitis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tautoga
Literary usage of Genus tautoga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1849)
"genus tautoga. The Tautog.—Black Fish (Tautoga Americana}. These complete the
list of those salt-water fish which are of any repute as affording sport to ..."
2. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"It appears to move about more than the other species, sustaining itself for a
greater length of time in the water. Genus TAUTOGA. Tautoga onitis. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and the rock-cook (Centro- On the Atlantic coasts of the N. states of the
United States the wrasses arc represented by the genus Tautoga. ..."
4. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"These fishes, though useful as scavengers, are a pest to fishermen on account of
their habit of nibbling the bait from the hooks. The genus Tautoga contains ..."
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