Meanings
- not comparableRelating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.
Regan (1913) classified the percesocine fishes as two suborders of his order Percomorphi.
1967, Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, volume 8, page 1502 more examples
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.
1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Lower vertebrates, page 262The placement and relationships of the atherinoid (sometimes called percesocine) fishes are still in dispute.
1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 8, page 270
Origin
Percesoces + -ine
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