Definition of Fundulus majalis

1. Noun. Black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States.

Exact synonyms: May Fish, Mayfish, Striped Killifish
Generic synonyms: Killifish
Group relationships: Fundulus, Genus Fundulus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fundulus Majalis

Fulmarus
Fulmarus glacialis
Fulton
Fulvicin
Fumaria
Fumaria claviculata
Fumaria fungosa
Fumaria officinalis
Fumaria sempervirens
Fumariaceae
Fumimaro Konoe
Fumimaro Konoye
Funafuti
Fundulus
Fundulus heteroclitus
Fundulus majalis (current term)
Funen
Funghus Rock
Funka
Funkaceae
Fuqra
Fur
Furby
Furbys
Furnariidae
Furnarius
Furnivall
Furongian
Fury

Literary usage of Fundulus majalis

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"Only multitudes of Cyprinodon variegatus and many young Fundulus majalis were found associated. I mention this record simply as it is the most northern at ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1907)
"FlG. 3. Fundulus majalis, female. FlG. 4. Fundulus majalis, male. These figures and those in Plate XXVIII. are reproduced from ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... Fundulus majalis, ... We then looked around east and west along the shore and saw no fish except Fundulus majalis and ..."

4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"belong to Fundulus, a genus widely distributed from Maine to Guatemala and north to Kansas and southern California. Fundulus majalis, the ..."

5. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"Alabama; Tennessee. We have had opportunity of examining only the female sex of this species. 8. Fundulus majalis. ..."

6. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization by Jacques Loeb (1913)
"... the circulation, the red chromatophores of the yolk, the black chromatophores, etc., in the embryos of Fundulus heteroclitus, Fundulus majalis, ..."

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