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"Acanthopterygian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The acanthopterygian family (Labyrinthici) contains nine freshwater genera, and these are distributed between the East Indies and South and ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart
... him on the string-piece, with a view, I suppose, of frustrating anything like a guerrilla plunder-movement upon his widely extended rear. Ay, there must be something strangely entrancing in dragging the shoal waters with a hand-line, for unsuspicious, easily duped members of the acanthopterygian tribe of fishes,—under which alarming denomination come, I believe, nearly all the finny fellows to be met with on these sand-banks, from the bluefish to the burgall. Only think how stuck up they would be above the lowly mollusks of the same waters, if they knew themselves as Acanthopterygii, and ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various |
Words linked to "Acanthopterygian" : boarfish, suckerfish, superorder Acanthopterygii, percoidean, sand launce, sargassum fish, flashlight fish, teleost, toadfish, Acanthopterygii, sand lance, launce, remora, anomalops, Lophius Americanus, percoid fish, allmouth, silversides, squirrelfish, stickleback, monkfish, prickleback, spiny-finned fish, flatfish, lotte, plectognath fish, barracuda, teleostan, dory, Opsanus tau, batfish, sand eel, frogfish, goosefish |
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