Meanings
plural triportheids
- rareAny fish of the family Triportheidae.
Similar condition was described by Mirande in the triportheids Agoniates Müller & Troschel, Clupeacharax Pearson, and Engraulisoma Castro, where the pelvic bones also articulate.
2013 January 2, André Luiz Netto-Ferreira, “A New Miniature Characid (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae), with Phylogenetic Position Inferred from Morphological and Molecular Data”, in PLOS ONE
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