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Definition of Orthopristis
1. Noun. A genus of Haemulidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Haemulidae, Haemulidae
Member holonyms: Hogfish, Orthopristis Chrysopterus, Pigfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthopristis
Literary usage of Orthopristis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE PIG-FISH (orthopristis chrysopterus) Another pan-fish belonging to the grunt
family and common to the waters of Florida, and one much esteemed as a ..."
2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"THE PIG FISH (orthopristis chrysopterus) Another pan-fish belonging to the grunt
family and common to the waters of Florida, and one much esteemed as a ..."
3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus orthopristis Girard. Pig-fishes. Rather small fishes with oblong, ...
(orthopristis, straight saw, in allusion to the evenly serrated preopercle. ..."
4. The Fishes of Panama Bay by Charles Henry Gilbert, Edwin Chapin Starks (1904)
"orthopristis brevipinnis (Steindachner). PLATE XV, FIG. 30. ... The scales in
the species of orthopristis are more nearly uniform in size than current ..."
5. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"GENUS orthopristis GIRARD The ... Colour, pearly gray, darker above; each scale
of back and side with a orthopristis forbesi is known only from Albemarle ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1859)
"I. orthopristis.—Mouth small ; upper and lower jaws provided with small, conical
teeth. Edge of preopercle nearly straight and finely serrated. ..."
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