Definition of Tautoga onitis

1. Noun. Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.

Exact synonyms: Blackfish, Tautog
Generic synonyms: Wrasse
Group relationships: Genus Tautoga, Tautoga

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautoga Onitis

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Taunton
Taurean
Taureans
Taurotragus
Taurotragus derbianus
Taurotragus oryx
Taurus
Taurus the Bull
Tauruses
Taussig
Taussig-Bing disease
Taussig-Bing syndrome
Tausug
Tautoga
Tautoga onitis
Tautogolabrus
Tautogolabrus adspersus
Tavastian
Tavastians
Tavros
Tawara
Tawara's node
Tawe
Tawney
Taxaceae
Taxales
Taxidea
Taxidea taxus
Taxodiaceae

Literary usage of Tautoga onitis

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)
"Dorsal spines numerous (17), anal spines three. Lateral line not interrupted. Temperate parts of the north-western Atlantic. 1. tautoga onitis. ..."

2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"The genus Tautoga contains one species, tautoga onitis, which is an abundant and well-known food-fish from New Brunswick to the Carolinas. ..."

3. 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. ..."

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