Definition of Genus lepomis

1. Noun. Bream.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lepomis

genus Leontideus
genus Leontocebus
genus Leontodon
genus Leontopodium
genus Leonurus
genus Lepas
genus Lepechinia
genus Lepidium
genus Lepidobotrys
genus Lepidochelys
genus Lepidocybium
genus Lepidothamnus
genus Lepiota
genus Lepisma
genus Lepisosteus
genus Lepomis
genus Leptarrhena
genus Leptinotarsa
genus Leptodactylus
genus Leptoglossus
genus Leptopteris
genus Leptoptilus
genus Leptospira
genus Leptotyphlops
genus Lepus
genus Lespedeza
genus Lesquerella
genus Leucadendron
genus Leucaena
genus Leucanthemum

Literary usage of Genus lepomis

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

1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1885)
"genus lepomis, Rafinesque. L. cyanellus ( Raf.), Red-Eye, Blue Spotted Sunfish. Common. ( Raf. Journ. de Phys., 1819. ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"... gill-rakers 9; preopercle entire; mouth very large; opercle ends in a black convex flap. genus lepomis Lepomis pallidus. Blue Sunfish. ..."

3. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"genus lepomis Lepomis pallidus. Blue Sunfish. Body short and deep, compressed; head 3; depth; eye 3J; DX 12; A. III, 12; scales 7-46-16; 5 rows on cheeks; ..."

4. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"The genus Lepomis «as framed iu 1819, to include all the Sun fishes, but the Labrus auritus, L. was expressly indicated as its type. ..."

5. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"... 6 to 8 rows on cheeks; teeth small and numerous; gill-rakers 9; preopercle entire; mouth very large; opercle ends in a black convex flap. genus lepomis ..."

6. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"In the present account, the genus Lepomis is regarded as embracing all the species found in North Carolina, and may be denned as follows: Body ovate, ..."

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