Definition of Heterosomata

1. Noun. Flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterosomata

Heterakis
Heteranthera
Heteranthera dubia
Heterobasidiomycetes
Heterodon
Heterodoxus spiniger
Heterokontae
Heterokontophyta
Heteromeles
Heteromeles arbutifolia
Heteromyidae
Heterophyes
Heteropoda
Heteroscelus
Heteroscelus incanus
Heterosomata (current term)
Heterostraci
Heterotheca
Heterotheca villosa
Heterotrichales
Hettie
Heubner's arteritis
Heuchera
Heuchera americana
Heuchera cylindrica
Heuchera sanguinea
Heuser's membrane
Hevea
Hevea brasiliensis

Literary usage of Heterosomata

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

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"CHAPTER XLII SUBORDER Heterosomata HE Flatfishes.—Perhaps the most remarkable offshoot from the order of spiny-rayed fishes is the great group of flounders ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"The main conclusions arrived at have been embodied in a paper entitled: 'On the Classification of the Flatfishes (Heterosomata),' which is in process of ..."

3. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"ORDER U.-Heterosomata. (The Flat-fishes.) "Cranium posteriorly normal; anteriorly Vith twisted vertex, to allow two orbits on the same side, or one vertical ..."

4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Suborder Heterosomata. The Flat-fishes. These fishes are remarkable for their bodily asymmetry, one side being much more highly developed than the other. ..."

5. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"These have been gathered into a sub-order and called Heterosomata (from heteros, another, and soma, body.) The side on which the eyes are situated is dark, ..."

6. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"Suborder Heterosomata. The Flat-fishes. These fishes are remarkable for their bodily asymmetry, one side being much more highly developed than the other. ..."

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