Definition of Polyprion

1. Noun. Wreckfish.

Exact synonyms: Genus Polyprion
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Serranidae, Serranidae
Member holonyms: Polyprion Americanus, Stone Bass, Wreckfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyprion

Polypedatidae
Polypheme
Polyphemus
Polyplax
Polypodiaceae
Polypodiales
Polypodium aureum
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Polypodium polypodioides
Polypodium scouleri
Polypodium virgianum
Polypodium vulgare
Polyporus frondosus
Polyporus squamosus
Polyporus tenuiculus
Polyprion
Polyprion americanus
Polysphondylium
Polystichum
Polystichum acrostichoides
Polystichum aculeatum
Polystichum adiantiformis
Polystichum braunii
Polystichum lonchitis
Polystichum scopulinum
Polystichum setiferum
Pomacanthus
Pomacentridae
Pomacentrus
Pomacentrus leucostictus

Literary usage of Polyprion

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 (1859)
"... with round whitish (in life probably blue), dark-edged specks of the size of a scale. Length of the largest specimen 7". 29. polyprion. polyprion, Cur. ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"An American species which has received this name on account of its soft skin, that is smeared with a frothy viscosity.(2) polyprion ..."

3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by George Albert Boulenger (1895)
"polyprion americanum, Costa, Faun. Nap., fesci, ip — (I850) ; Serranus couchii, ... Madeira. R. Blandy, Esq. [P.]. i. Hgr., skel. Polperro. 2. polyprion ..."

4. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1863)
"side- tooth from Great Oolite of Stonesfield ; four largish teeth of a Hybodus, apparently H. polyprion, from the Great Oolite of ..."

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