Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Uranoscopidæ. U. scaber is a Mediterranean fish, known to the ancients.
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Now I possess several specimens of all the native species, and have even discovered some ten not hitherto known to occur here, beside one completely new to science, which I have named Cyprinus uranoscopus on account of the position of the eyes, placed on the top instead of the sides of the head, -- otherwise very like the gudgeon.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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Now I possess several specimens of all the native species, and have even discovered some ten not hitherto known to occur here, beside one completely new to science, which I have named Cyprinus uranoscopus on account of the position of the eyes, placed on the top instead of the sides of the head, ” otherwise very like the gudgeon.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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