Definition of Aspidophoroides

1. Noun. Alligatorfishes.

Exact synonyms: Genus Aspidophoroides
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Agonidae, Family Agonidae
Member holonyms: Alligatorfish, Aspidophoroides Monopterygius

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspidophoroides

Aspergillus oryzae carboxyl proteinase
Aspergillus terreus
Asperula
Asperula odorata
Asperula tinctoria
Asphodelaceae
Asphodeline
Asphodeline lutea
Asphodelus
Aspiculuris tetraptera
Aspidelaps
Aspidelaps lubricus
Aspidiotus
Aspidiotus perniciosus
Aspidistra elatio
Aspidophoroides (current term)
Aspidophoroides monopterygius
Aspie
Aspinwall
Aspis
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium
Asplenium adiantum-nigrum
Asplenium billotii
Asplenium bradleyi
Asplenium ceterach
Asplenium montanum
Asplenium nidus
Asplenium nigripes
Asplenium pinnatifidum

Literary usage of Aspidophoroides

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

1. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1899)
"b. Bony plates keeled, without spines; fins very small; teeth on vomer. Aspidophoroides, 193. 193. ..."

2. The Genera of Fishes ...: A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1917)
"Equivalent to AGONUS Bloch & Schneider. Aspidophoroides Lacepède, III, 227, 1802; type Aspidophoroides TRANQUEBAR Lacepède (AGONUS ..."

3. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"GENUS Aspidophoroides ... body tapering to the tail ; one or two dorsal fins distinct.—Storer. Aspidophoroides ..."

4. The Fur Seals and Fur-seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean by David Starr Jordan, George Archibald Clark, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1899)
"Known only from the waters about Sakhalin. Aspidophoroides ... Aspidophoroides inermis (Günther). Recorded from about tbe Aleutian Islands and Unalaska. ..."

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