Definition of Order Plectognathi

1. Noun. Boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Plectognathi

order Percomorphi
order Perissodactyla
order Peronosporales
order Pezizales
order Phalangida
order Phallales
order Phasmatodea
order Phasmida
order Pholidota
order Picariae
order Piciformes
order Piperales
order Plantaginales
order Platyctenea
order Plecoptera
order Plectognathi (current term)
order Pleuronectiformes
order Plumbaginales
order Podicipediformes
order Podicipitiformes
order Polemoniales
order Polygonales
order Polymastigina
order Polypodiales
order Primates
order Primulales
order Proboscidea
order Procellariiformes
order Proteales
order Protura

Literary usage of Order Plectognathi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johann Justus Rein (1884)
"... best-known representatives of this peculiar unimportant group of sea dwellers, occur in Japanese waters in some six species. VI. ORDER. PLECTOGNATHI. ..."

2. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1854)
"... with the five rows of teeth almost complete. From the Kimmeridge clay of Oxfordshire. Presented by Professor Owen, FRS Order PLECTOGNATHI. ..."

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