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Definition of Goatfishes
1. goatfish [n] - See also: goatfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goatfishes
Literary usage of Goatfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... The goatfishes Body oblong, compressed; mouth moderate, nearly horizontal,
low, the jaws subequal; eye large, high up, posterior; ..."
2. Fishes of Australia: A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the by David George Stead (1906)
"Generally speaking the goatfishes are small species; but ordinarily-large ...
These are typical of all the goatfishes and are tactile organs, assisting the ..."
3. A Bibliography of Fishes by Bashford Dean, Eugene Willis Gudger, American Museum of Natural History, Arthur Wilbur Henn (1917)
"... or goatfishes of the shores of Japan. Proc. US Nat. Mus., 1907, 32, 87-102.
3 figs. 1907.1 - Descriptions of eighteen new species and two new genera of ..."
4. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... whose chief representatives are called goatfishes. The exceptional species is
closely related to the celebrated ..."
5. Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates by Peter Vine (1996)
"MULLIDAE goatfishes Small to moderate fishes, easily recognised by the paired
chin barbels equipped with chemosensory organs used for probing the sand for ..."
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