percesocine
English
editEtymology
editPercesoces + -ine
Adjective
editpercesocine (not comparable)
- Relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.
- 1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Lower vertebrates[1], page 262:
- 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.
- 1967, Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, volume 8, page 150:
- Regan (1913) classified the percesocine fishes as two suborders of his order Percomorphi.
- 1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 8, page 270:
- The placement and relationships of the atherinoid (sometimes called percesocine) fishes are still in dispute.