Meanings
nounxenocongrid (plural xenocongrids)
plural xenocongrids
- biologyAny eel from the family Xenocongridae, the false morays (chlopsids).
The vomerine dentition in a single median series distinguishes it from these and all other xenocongrids […]
1939, Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, numbers 373-4361 more example
The posterior nostril in xenocongrids lies immediately before the center of the eye, on the outside of the upper lip, or inside the confines of the mouth; in the muraenids, it nearly always lies above the eye.
1993, James E. Böhlke, Charles C. G. Chaplin, Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters, page 70
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