Definition of Order Synentognathi

1. Noun. Order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Synentognathi

order Sirenia
order Solenichthyes
order Solenogastres
order Spatangoida
order Sphaeriales
order Sphaerocarpales
order Sphagnales
order Sphenisciformes
order Spirochaetales
order Squamata
order Stegocephalia
order Stereospondyli
order Stomatopoda
order Strigiformes
order Struthioniformes
order Synentognathi (current term)
order Taxales
order Temnospondyli
order Testacea
order Testudinata
order Testudines
order Tetraodontiformes
order Thecodontia
order Therapsida
order Thymelaeales
order Thysanoptera
order Thysanura
order Tinamiformes
order Torpediniformes
order Tremellales

Literary usage of Order Synentognathi

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

1. A Bibliography of Fishes by Bashford Dean, Eugene Willis Gudger, American Museum of Natural History, Arthur Wilbur Henn (1917)
"... The classification of the teleostean fishes of the order Synentognathi. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1911, 8. ser. 7. 327-335. pi. & 4 figs. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"The physiognomy brings it into relation with this order. Synentognathi. Mouth bounded by the premaxillary only ; parietal bone very much ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"The physiognomy brings it into relation with this order. Synentognathi. Mouth bounded by the premaxillary only; parietal bone very much reduced ..."

4. Popular Zoology by Joel Dorman Steele, John Whipple Potter Jenks (1887)
"order Synentognathi (sin en to nfi'thl). The Flying-fish has large pectoral fins, by which it can support itself in the air for a few seconds. ..."

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