Definition of Genus Lutjanus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lutjanus

genus Lota
genus Lotus
genus Lovoa
genus Loxia
genus Loxodonta
genus Loxoma
genus Loxostege
genus Lucilia
genus Lufengpithecus
genus Luffa
genus Lumpenus
genus Lunaria
genus Lunda
genus Lupinus
genus Luscinia
genus Lutjanus (current term)
genus Lutra
genus Luvarus
genus Lycaena
genus Lycaeon
genus Lychnis
genus Lycium
genus Lycoperdon
genus Lycopersicon
genus Lycopersicum
genus Lycopodium
genus Lycopus
genus Lycosa
genus Lyginopteris
genus Lygodium

Literary usage of Genus Lutjanus

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... a rather numerous assemblage of fishes belonging to the genus Lutjanus and related genera, usually considered as belonging to the family ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"ACERINA, CuV., Are distinguished by concavities in the bones of the 1 The majority of them are included in the genus Lutjanus of Bl., but were there mixed ..."

3. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... The genus Lutjanus is found everywhere in tropical waters, and fish resembling the Red Snapper occur everywhere throughout the West Indies. ..."

4. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1890)
"... genus is peculiarly unfortunate, for besides the lack of euphony in the name, the genus has neither resemblance to nor affinity with the genus Lutjanus. ..."

5. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia: With a Systematic List by Edward Drinker Cope (1875)
"... as the Yellow, Streaked, Spotted, and Black Grunts, all of which probably belong to this family, if not to this genus. LUTJANUS CAXIS, (Schneider) ..."

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