Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunkfishes
Literary usage of Trunkfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... are found in the Eocene of Monte Bolea. These are probably the nearest to the
original ancestor among known scleroderma. The trunkfishes: Ostraciidae. ..."
2. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)
"Sometimes they present scattered dermal plates of true bone; or, as in the
trunkfishes (Ostra- cion), the body may be encased in a complete cuirass, ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1904)
"... called "sea butterflies" by the natives; black-and-yellow banded banner-fish (Zanclus
canescens); trunkfishes ..."
4. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1890)
"trunkfishes. Body angular, covered by a carapace of firmly-united, six-sided
plates; the tail, jaws and fins free, and covered by naked skin; mouth small, ..."
5. The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"The former, commonly known as trunkfishes,were among the most remarkable in this
wonderful fishing ground. They were very tame, and were the armadillos of ..."
6. The Log of a Sea Angler: Sport and Adventures in Many Seas with Spear and Rod by Charles Frederick Holder (1906)
"The former, commonly known as trunkfishes,were among the most remarkable in this
wonderful fishing ground. They were very tame, and were the armadillos of ..."
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