Definition of Genus Ammodytes

1. Noun. Type genus of the Ammodytidae.

Exact synonyms: Ammodytes
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Ammodytidae, Family Ammodytidae
Member holonyms: Launce, Sand Eel, Sand Lance, Sand Launce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ammodytes

genus Amanita
genus Amaranthus
genus Amaryllis
genus Amauropelta
genus Amazona
genus Amberboa
genus Ambloplites
genus Amblyrhynchus
genus Ambrosia
genus Ambystoma
genus Ameiurus
genus Amelanchier
genus Amia
genus Amianthum
genus Ammobium
genus Ammodytes (current term)
genus Ammotragus
genus Amoeba
genus Amorpha
genus Amorphophallus
genus Amphibolips
genus Amphicarpa
genus Amphicarpaea
genus Amphioxus
genus Amphiprion
genus Amphisbaena
genus Amphisbaenia
genus Amphiuma
genus Amsinckia
genus Amsonia

Literary usage of Genus Ammodytes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus Ammodytes has the dorsal fin extending nearly the whole length of the back, the anal long, and both separated from the caudal, which is forked. ..."

2. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The genus Ammodytes has the dorsal fin extending nearly the whole length of the back, the anal long, and both separated from the caudal, which is forked The ..."

3. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"... between the point of the snout and the commencement of the anal fin ; none of which characters are possessed by the common eel. genus Ammodytes. ..."

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