Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigfishes
Literary usage of Pigfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... coast of tropical America, from Mazatlan to Peru. It is not uncommon on sandy
shores. GENUS ORTHOPRISTIS GIRARD The pigfishes This genus differs from ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The pigfishes, Orthopristis, have the spines feebler and the anal fin more elongate.
Of the many species, American and Mediterranean, ..."
3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"The pigfishes, Orthopristis, have the spines feebler and the anal fin more elongate.
Of the many species, American and Mediterranean, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... called 'pigfishes' in this genus. The form is ovate-elliptical, and the length
is 12 to 15 inches. The same name is given to several allied fishes, ..."
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