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Definition of Genus Naucrates
1. Noun. A genus of Carangidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Carangidae, Family Carangidae
Member holonyms: Naucrates Ductor, Pilotfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Naucrates
Literary usage of Genus Naucrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"Genus NAUCRATES, Cuv. Body oblong, subcylindrical, covered with small scales ;
cleft of mouth moderate; a keel on each side of the tail; spinous dorsal ..."
2. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus Naucrates — Pilot-Fishes — has a fusiform body, free dorsal spines, a
crest on the sides of the tail, and two free spines before the anal fin ..."
3. 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)
"Of the genus NAUCRATES, the common species, naucrates ductor, or the pilot, so
named from the habit which it has of following or accompanying vessels, ..."
4. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The genus Naucrates — Pilot-Fishes — has a fusiform body, free dorsal spines, a
crest on the sides of the tail, and two free spines before the anal fin ..."
5. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"GENUS, NAUCRATES, Safin. DUCTOR, Linn. Tar., i. 149; Couch, ii. t. 87, p. 107.
Pilot-fish. Two were taken in Plymouth Sound, and one in Dartmouth harbour; ..."
6. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"It is of very little value as food, the flesh being dry and bony. The genus
Naucrates contains the pilot-fish, N. ductor, which differs from ..."
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