Definition of Genus gobio

1. Noun. True gudgeons.

Exact synonyms: Gobio
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Cyprinidae, Family Cyprinidae
Member holonyms: Gobio Gobio, Gudgeon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gobio

genus Gliricidia
genus Glis
genus Globicephala
genus Globigerina
genus Gloriosa
genus Glossina
genus Glossodia
genus Glossopsitta
genus Gloxinia
genus Glyceria
genus Glycine
genus Glycyrrhiza
genus Gnaphalium
genus Gnetum
genus Gobiesox
genus Gobio
genus Gomphotherium
genus Gomphrena
genus Goniopteris
genus Gonorhynchus
genus Goodyera
genus Gopherus
genus Gorgonocephalus
genus Gorilla
genus Gossypium
genus Gracula
genus Grammatophyllum
genus Grampus
genus Graptophyllum
genus Grevillea

Literary usage of Genus gobio

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

1. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"I am well aware that the position of this species in the genus Gobio is not natural, as it has neither the particular cut of the outline of the head which ..."

2. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Yar., i. 305; Couch, iv. t. 180, p. 4. Carp. In the Exeter Canal, and railway ponds; sometimes taken of large size. GENUS, GOBIO ..."

3. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"... no intimate relation with the European genus Gobio, which is an ally of A'e/»o<t/ws, with the teeth 3, 5-5, 3, and the barbel lateral and very long. ..."

4. Notes on Fish and Fishing by John Jackson Manley (1877)
"... with his leathery, toothless mouth, and a " barbel" at each side of it; and the Ichthyologists have assigned him to the genus Gobio. ..."

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