Definition of Genus Holocentrus

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Holocentridae; squirrelfishes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Holocentrus

genus Hippocampus
genus Hippocrepis
genus Hippodamia
genus Hippoglossoides
genus Hippoglossus
genus Hippopotamus
genus Hipposideros
genus Hippotragus
genus Hipsurus
genus Hirudo
genus Hirundo
genus Hoheria
genus Holarrhena
genus Holbrookia
genus Holcus
genus Holocentrus (current term)
genus Holothuria
genus Homarus
genus Homo
genus Homogyne
genus Homona
genus Hordeum
genus Horneophyton
genus Hosta
genus Hottonia
genus Houttuynia
genus Hovea
genus Hoya
genus Hudsonia
genus Hugueninia

Literary usage of Genus Holocentrus

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)
"genus Holocentrus SCOPOLI The Squirrel-fishes Body oblong, moderately compressed, ventral outline nearly straight, the back a little elevated, ..."

2. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"Vent nearly medial. The generic name means fine tail. It differs principally from the genus Holocentrus, by the head, scaly gill cover and singular ..."

3. Book of the Black Bass: Comprising Its Complete Scientific and Life History by James Alexander Henshall (1881)
"Vent nearly medial. The generic name means fine-tail. It differs principally from the genus Holocentrus, by the head, scaly gill-cover and singular ..."

4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The species are active, pugnacious, carnivorous, but not especially voracious, the mouth being usually small. The genus Holocentrus is characterized by the ..."

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