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Definition of Prosopium
1. Noun. Whitefishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Coregonidae, Family Coregonidae
Member holonyms: Menominee Whitefish, Prosopium Cylindraceum, Round Whitefish, Prosopium Williamsonii, Rocky Mountain Whitefish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosopium
Literary usage of Prosopium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Zoological Position of Texas by Edward Drinker Cope (1880)
"LAKE WHITING.—Northern Lakes. Photograph. US Fish Commission. prosopium ...
—Great Lakes and northward. Photograph. US Fish Commission. prosopium ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"... northern Saskatchewan, is referable to the subgenus prosopium, and probably
also to the species ..."
3. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"... maxillary short, broad, not reaching to eye; the supplemental bone narrowly
elliptical; supraorbital broad ; mouth very small. (prosopium Milner.) 182. ..."
4. Effects of the Eruptions of Mount St. Helens on Physical, Chemical, and by Douglas B. Lee (1998)
"Fish species include rainbow trout, mountain whitefish (prosopium williamsoni).
and a few steelhead. Faulconer and Mongillo ( 1981, p. ..."
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