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Definition of Order Pediculati
1. Noun. Anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Member holonyms: Family Ogcocephalidae, Ogcocephalidae, Family Lophiidae, Lophiidae, Batrachoididae, Family Batrachoididae, Antennariidae, Family Antennariidae
Group relationships: Acanthopterygii, Superorder Acanthopterygii
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Pediculati
Literary usage of Order Pediculati
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"order Pediculati: The Anglers The skin is smooth, with dermal flaps about the head.
Over the mouth, like a fishing-rod, hangs the first dorsal spine with a ..."
2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"... and was doubtless intended for Paralichthys. The foregoing diagnosis is based
on specimens 5 inches long from the Beaufort region. Order PEDICULATI. ..."
3. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"... and was doubtless intended for Paralichthys. The foregoing diagnosis is based
on specimens 5 inches long from the Beaufort region. Order PEDICULATI. ..."
4. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"It is believed that they represent the ancestral group from which the sub-order
Pediculati (Anglers) has been derived. ..."
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