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Definition of Lachnolaimus maximus
1. Noun. Large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lachnolaimus Maximus
Literary usage of Lachnolaimus maximus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"... (Cuvier and Valenciennes), and is known to science as Lachnolaimus
maximus (Walbaum). It is essentially a West Indian fish, being more or less common at ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"taine or hogfish, lachnolaimus maximus, a great fish, crimson in color, with its
fin spines ending in long streamers; Bodianus rufus, the Spanish lady-fish ..."
3. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"... Indies and our southern coasts is another of the wrasse-fishes whose scientific
name is lachnolaimus maximus. It is called in Porto Rico " el capitan. ..."
4. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck, Geographical Society of Baltimore (1905)
"lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum) (Hog Fish). This is a common and attractive
food-fish occurring throughout the West Indies and Bermudas, and ranging north to ..."
5. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"... M. tigris, M. falcata, pi. xcv), and the large Hogfish (lachnolaimus maximus,
fig. 55). The latter was evidently very * Daring the months of May, Jane, ..."
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