acanthomorph

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noun

Any of the fish of the 14,000 species in the clade Acanthomorpha in infraclass Teleostei

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Meanings

nounacanthomorph (plural acanthomorphs)

plural acanthomorphs

  1. Any of the fish of the 14,000 species in the clade Acanthomorpha in infraclass Teleostei

    Most rarely, Cretaceous and Tertiary phyllodont remains are related to the modern acanthomorph family Labridae (Labrodon).

    2015 December 17, “A Fish Assemblage from the Middle Eocene from Libya (Dur At-Talah) and the Earliest Record of Modern African Fish Genera”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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