Ocyurus (Noun)
Meaning
Snappers.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Ocyurus is a genus of snappers native to the warm and temperate waters of the Atlantic and the Caribbean.
- Lutjanus cyanopterus has sometimes been confused with ocyurus in local and national cuisines and literature.
- Species belonging to ocyurus snappers such as chub, dolphin or large hump-backed parrot fish preying at high light.
- Reef assemblages off Ceará (Northeast Brazil) sometimes composed mainly of members from lutjanid like ocyurus and lethrinids families.
- Taxonomical families often link together common snap snapper group together within like category sub or containing an ocyurus.scalablytyped