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Definition of Percoidea
1. Noun. In some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Family Sillaginidae, Sillaginidae
Definition of Percoidea
1. n. pl. Same as Perciformes.
Medical Definition of Percoidea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Percoidea
Literary usage of Percoidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"We may now take up the long series of the percoidea, the fishes built on the type
of the perch or bass. This is a group of fishes of diverse habits and ..."
2. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"We may now take up the long series of the percoidea, the fishes built on the type
of the perch or bass. This is a group of fishes of diverse habits and ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"percoidea.—A group of fishes of diverse habits and forms, but on the whole,
representing better than any other the typical acanthopterygian fish. ..."
4. Entomological Reprints by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1899)
"(percoidea.) Tertiary. South Dakota. About nine very strong basal radii; ...
(percoidea.) No. 4997. (Tertiary; Oregon.) Subquadrate scale of the usual ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1916)
"... percoidea Günther. n, Biol. C. Amer. Pise., 1906-8, p. r>9. Sarda «arda (Bloch).
Several seen in markets, but with the next, not preserver 1. ..."
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