Percesocine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Percesocine is an adjective meaning Relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.
Meaning
Relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.
Example Sentences
Regan (1913) classified the percesocine fishes as two suborders of his order Percomorphi.
The placement and relationships of the atherinoid (sometimes called percesocine) fishes are still in dispute.
It is possible that it may have been an early offshoot from a Percesocine or Acanthopterygian stock, and cognate with the Hemibranchii; but too little is known of its anatomy to warrant an authoritative opinion.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include percine, percoid, perchlike, piscose, serpuloidean, scorpaenoid.
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