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Definition of Photophores
1. photophore [n] - See also: photophore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Photophores
Literary usage of Photophores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to Biology by Hopkins Marine Station (1895)
"detached photophores on head. Dorsal short, on posterior half of body, slightly
overlapping the short anal. Ventrals inserted before dorsal. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1904)
"Three mandibular photophores. One on lower anterior portion of opercle.
An interorbital photophore. ... photophores black, with bright silvery centers. ..."
3. The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann, Charles Henry Gilbert, John Nathan Cobb, Wesley Roswell Coe, Walter Kenrick Fisher, Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Charles Cleveland Nutting, Arnold Edward Ortmann, Mary Jane Rathbun, Aaron Louis Treadwell, Frede (1905)
"In the posterior group: 3 photophores, in 21 cases, 4 photophores in 157 cases,
5 photophores in ... Tims when the anterior group contains ti photophores, ..."
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