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Definition of Ganoidei
1. Noun. A group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Subclass Teleostei, Teleostei
Member holonyms: Ganoid, Ganoid Fish, Amiidae, Family Amiidae, Family Polyodontidae, Polyodontidae, Acipenseridae, Family Acipenseridae, Family Lepisosteidae, Lepisosteidae
Definition of Ganoidei
1. n. pl. One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.
Medical Definition of Ganoidei
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ganoidei
Literary usage of Ganoidei
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"ganoidei'. IT is only within quite recent times that any investigations have been
made on the embryology of this heterogeneous, but primitive group of ..."
2. Palaeontology Or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their by Richard Owen (1861)
"ganoidei. Char.— Endo-skeleton in some osseous, in some cartilaginous, in some
partly osseous and partly cartilaginous; exo- skeleton formed by enamelled ..."
3. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"... it is often caught of a length of i \ metres, and over i metre broad. VII.
ORDER. ganoidei. Of the two families of this tribe, only that of the sturgeon ..."
4. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"not known to be represented by any fossil forms, therefore, for consideration
the orders of the (Bony Fishes), ganoidei ..."
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