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Definition of Tautoga
1. Noun. Tautogs.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Labridae, Labridae
Member holonyms: Blackfish, Tautog, Tautoga Onitis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautoga
Literary usage of Tautoga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1862)
"tautoga*. tautoga, Mitch. Report Fish. New York, 1814, p. 23. tautoga, sp., Cue.
# Vol. xiii. p. 292. Body compressed, oblong, covered with small scales; ..."
2. Memoirs by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1855)
"tautoga, MITCH. Jaws with a double row of teeth. ... tautoga Americana, New York
Tautog, DEKAY, Report, p. 175, pi. 14, fig. 39. " " STORES, Mem. Amer. ..."
3. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"tautoga Mitchill. ... Report Fish New York, 1814, 23: type Labrus tautoga Mitchill =
tautoga Mitchill = Labrus ..."
4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"... which, in turn, was the name applied to the species by the Mohegan or Narragansett
Indians. 282. tautoga ONITIS (Linnaeus). "Oyster-fish"; Tautog. ..."