Definition of Neoceratodus

1. Noun. Extant Australian lungfishes.

Exact synonyms: Genus Neoceratodus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Ceratodontidae, Family Ceratodontidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neoceratodus

Neo-Charismatics
Neo-Darwinism
Neo-Lamarckism
Neo-Latin
Neo-Pantheism
Neo-Pentecostal
Neo-Pentecostals
Neo-Pythagorean
Neo-Pythagoreanism
Neo-Pythagoreans
Neo Latin
Neoalleviase
Neoarchean
Neoascaris vitulorum
Neobiotic
Neoceratodus (current term)
Neoceratodus forsteri
Neocomian
Neofiber
Neofiber alleni
Neogene
Neogothic
Neogrammarian
Neogrammarians
Neohygrophorus
Neohygrophorus angelesianus
Neolentinus
Neolentinus ponderosus
Neolithic
Neolithic Age

Literary usage of Neoceratodus

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

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Later, generic differences were noticed, and it was separated as a distinct group by Castelnau in 1876, under the name of Neoceratodus (later called ..."

2. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"which the water had become so foul that it was full of dead fishes of various kinds. Fatal as these conditions were to ordinary fishes, Neoceratodus not ..."

3. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"Neoceratodus forsteri, a fish that reaches a length of over five feet (Fig. ... Fatal as these conditions were for ordinary fishes, Neoceratodus not only ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... and plication of the dental plates, and had revived for the recent genus the name Neoceratodus given in mistake by Castelnau to a specimen of the genus. ..."

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