Definition of Albula vulpes

1. Noun. Slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons.

Exact synonyms: Bonefish
Generic synonyms: Malacopterygian, Soft-finned Fish
Group relationships: Albula, Genus Albula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Albula Vulpes

Albizia lebbeck
Albizia saman
Albizzia julibrissin
Albizzia lebbeck
Alborg
Albrecht's bone
Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein
Albright's disease
Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
Albright's syndrome
Albright knot
Albright knots
Albuginaceae
Albula
Albula vulpes (current term)
Albulidae
Albuquerque
Alby
Albyn
Alca
Alca torda
Alcaeus
Alcaic
Alcaic verse
Alcatraz
Alcea
Alcea rosea
Alcedinidae
Alcedo atthis

Literary usage of Albula vulpes

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

1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"CHAPTER XVIII MISCELLANEOUS FISHES THE LADY-FISH (Albula vulpes) Attain vulpes. The Lady-fish. Body rather elongate, little compressed, covered with rather ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"Catesby, in 1837, called the lady-fish (Albula vulpes) of the Bahamas " bone-fish," while Captain William Dampier, one of the early explorers, ..."

3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Albula vulpes is a brilliantly silvery fish, little valued as food. The metamorphosis (see Fig. 112, Vol. I) which the larva undergoes is very remarkable. ..."

4. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1905)
"Albula vulpes (Linn;eus). ••<>'„,." Fig. 9. Head 3.75 in length; depth 5; D. In; A. S; scales 9-71-7; ..."

5. The Big Game Fishes of the United States: A Collection of Critical Essays by Charles Burton Martin, Viktor Aleksandrovich Maksunov, Charles Frederick Holder, Amiya Chandra Chakravarty, David Malet Armstrong (1903)
"The tarpon is literally a gigantic cousin of the herrings, and its ties to the gamy ten-pounder, Elops saurus, and bone-fish, Albula vulpes, are still ..."

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