percesocine

English

Etymology

Percesoces +‎ -ine

Adjective

percesocine (not comparable)

1. 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.