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Definition of Tautoga onitis
1. Noun. Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.
Generic synonyms: Wrasse
Group relationships: Genus Tautoga, Tautoga
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautoga Onitis
Literary usage of Tautoga onitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1862)
"Dorsal spines numerous (17), anal spines three. Lateral line not interrupted.
Temperate parts of the north-western Atlantic. 1. Tautoga onitis. ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"The genus Tautoga contains one species, Tautoga onitis, which is an abundant and
well-known food-fish from New Brunswick to the Carolinas. ..."
3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"... which, in turn, was the name applied to the species by the Mohegan or Narragansett
Indians. 282. Tautoga onitis (Linnaeus). "Oyster-fish"; Tautog. ..."
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