Definition of Aulostomus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Aulostomidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Aulostomus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Aulostomidae, Family Aulostomidae
Member holonyms: Aulostomus Maculatus, Trumpetfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aulostomus

Augustinianism
Augustinians
Augusts
Augustus
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Augusty
Augæan
Aujeszky
Aujeszky's disease
Aujeszky's disease virus
Aukštaitian
Aukštaitians
Aukštaitija
Aulacorhyncus
Aulostomidae
Aulostomus (current term)
Aulostomus maculatus
Aum
Aum Shinrikyo
Aunt Sally
Auntie
Aura
Aurangabad
Auregnais
Aurelia
Aurelian
Aurelius
Aureolaria
Aureolaria pedicularia

Literary usage of Aulostomus

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

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Aulostomus chinensis (maculatus) is common in the West Indies, Aulostomus valentini abounds in Polynesia and Asia, where it is a food-fish of moderate ..."

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)
"II. xvii. Fist, immaculata, G'ommers., J. White, p. 296. f. 2., is from the Indian Ocean. 2 Aulostomus (flute-mouthed), ..."

3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"... tobacco-pipe fish) is the F. taba- caria of Linnaeus; and the aulostomus Chinensis, improperly separated from the genus fistularia, is the F. Chinensis ..."

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