osteoglossomorph

noun

Any fish of the superorder Osteoglossomorpha.

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Meanings

nounosteoglossomorph (plural osteoglossomorphs)

plural osteoglossomorphs

  1. Any fish of the superorder Osteoglossomorpha.

    Postcranial pneumaticity is absent in all other extant vertebrates with the known exceptions of osteoglossomorph fish and the hyoid bone in howler monkeys.

    2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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