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Definition of Catalufa
1. Noun. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Genus Priacanthus, Priacanthus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catalufa
Literary usage of Catalufa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Priacanthus arenatus, the catalufa or toro, is a beautiful fish found in the West
Indies south to Brazil, and occasionally north in the Gulf Stream to Woods ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Pempheris mulleri and P. poeyi are found •'. m ' ; • " mm ••.: FIG. 394.—catalufa
de lo Alto, Pempheris mulleri Poey. Havana. in the West Indies. ..."
3. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"FISHES PRIACANTHUS ARENATUS Cuvier and Valenciennes (catalufa). Tropical Atlantic,
straying northward in the Gulf Stream. Obtained by the steamer Albatross ..."
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