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Definition of Archosargus
1. Noun. A genus of Sparidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sparidae, Sparidae
Member holonyms: Archosargus Rhomboidalis, Atlantic Sea Bream, Archosargus Probatocephalus, Sheepshead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archosargus
Literary usage of Archosargus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE SHEEPSHEAD (archosargus probatocephalus) In his account of the fishes in the
vicinity of New York, in 1788, Schopf, a surgeon in the British army, ..."
2. The Big Game Fishes of the United States: A Collection of Critical Essays by Charles Burton Martin, Viktor Aleksandrovich Maksunov, Charles Frederick Holder, Amiya Chandra Chakravarty, David Malet Armstrong (1903)
"... to the sub- genus archosargus, and is known to science as archosargus
probatocephalus (Walbaum). Its head is large and high, the body deep, ..."
3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... bluish with a submedian gilt band and a gilt edge; caudal yellow, faintly
barred; anal bluish, with a median yellowish band. GENUS archosargus GILL The ..."
4. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"... to the sub- genus archosargus, and is known to science as archosargus
probatocephalus (Walbaum). Its head is large and high, the body deep, ..."
5. A Check-list of the Fishes and Fishlike Vertebrates of North and Middle America by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"308, 1792, Brazil; on a figure by Prince Maurice. 1763. archosargus ...
archosargus tridens (Poey). Cuba. Sarg it u tridens Poey, Enumeratio, 57, 1875, ..."
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