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Definition of Pomatomus saltatrix
1. Noun. Bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Genus Pomatomus, Pomatomus
Terms within: Bluefish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomatomus Saltatrix
Literary usage of Pomatomus saltatrix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1913)
"lie- is the blue-fish, pomatomus saltatrix. While caught in large numbers and of
considerable si/.e outside, those caught inside are of smaller size and are ..."
2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus). "Blue-fish"; "Tailor"; "Green-fish"; "Skip-jack";
Snapping Mackerel. ..."
3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The single species Cheilodipterus saltatrix, or pomatomus saltatrix, known as
the bluefish, is a large, swift, extremely voracious fish, common throughout ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The bluefish or "skipjack" (pomatomus saltatrix) is one of the most widely
distributed and abundant of sea-fishes, being found in the Atlantic from the ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"Body slender; appendix about a fourth the length of body; 3.2 mm. long, 0.42 mm.
wide : in intestine of pomatomus saltatrix H. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1921)
"... egg-case of large skate, containing embryo (probably Raja ocellata), Pomatomus
saltatrix, Roccus lineatus, ..."