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Definition of Caranx
1. Noun. Type genus of the Carangidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Carangidae, Family Carangidae
Definition of Caranx
1. n. A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel.
Definition of Caranx
1. Noun. (zoology) Any member of the fish genus ''Caranx''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caranx
Literary usage of Caranx
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fishes of Zanzibar: Acanthopterygii by Robert Lambert Playfair, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"188. Family CARANGID^. [195, 232.] [368.] [668.] Caranx, Cuv. Caranx ... Zanzibar.
From the Bed Sea through the Indian seas. 189. Caranx kurra. [93. ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1912)
"Caranx latus Agassiz. Three small specimens from the Havana market 140 to ...
Caranx fasten Cuv. and Val. seems after all to be the adult of Caranx latus. ..."
3. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"Teeth variously developed; sometimes minute, granular, and deciduous (Caranx),
sometimes with an outer row of stronger teeth (Selar, etc. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1884)
"On page 197. in the same paper, Caranx ... 70), described from a drawing made in
Mexico, may be added as an extremely doubtful synonym of Caranx ..."
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