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Definition of Isurus
1. Noun. Mako sharks.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Isuridae, Isuridae
Member holonyms: Mako, Mako Shark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isurus
Literary usage of Isurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of by University of California (1868-1952) (1910)
"Many specimens of isurus, large and small, seem to belong to a species of isurus
... The scanty description of isurus tumulus, characterized by "the ..."
2. On the Natural History and Classification of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles. by William Swainson (1838)
"... because we consider Rafinesque's isurus is the true typical example of the
... and the long snout and forked tail of isurus clearly show that it is of ..."
3. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1900)
"isurus. This genus differs from Lamna only in the prevailing absence of the lateral
... isurus mantelli. Plate XXXI, figs. 41-46: plate XXXII, figs. 2 2m. ..."
4. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1902)
"isurus. This genus differs from Lamna only in the prevailing absence of the
lateral denticles ... The genus occurs from Jurassic to the present time. isurus ..."
5. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Milvus isurus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc., part v. ... Milvus isurus, Gould,
Birds of Australia, foL, vol. L pl. 22. This species, although possessing ..."
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