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Definition of Order isospondyli
1. Noun. Most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Malacopterygii, Superorder Malacopterygii
Member holonyms: Family Gonorhynchidae, Gonorhynchidae, Clupeidae, Family Clupeidae, Engraulidae, Family Engraulidae, Family Salmonidae, Salmonidae, Coregonidae, Family Coregonidae, Family Osmeridae, Osmeridae, Elopidae, Family Elopidae, Albulidae, Family Albulidae, Argentinidae, Family Argentinidae, Family Myctophidae, Myctophidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Isospondyli
Literary usage of Order isospondyli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Order ISOSPONDYLI. The Clupeoid and Salmonoid Fishes. This order, which comprises
some of the commonest and most valuable of our soft-rayed fishes, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1909)
"... 1893, which measured three feet in length. One caught off Kidder's Ferry a
few years ago is said to have measured five feet. VII. Order ISOSPONDYLI. 9. ..."
3. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"Order ISOSPONDYLI. The Clupeoid and Salmonoid Fishes. This order, which comprises
some of the commonest and most valuable of our soft-rayed fishes, ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"... undoubtedly remove the fishes which possess them, from the order Isospondyli,
where the present writer formerly placed them. The degree of ossification ..."
5. The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1904)
"The simplest type is represented by the order Isospondyli.and paleontology
indicates clearly that this order is also the oldest, as it dates from the Trias ..."
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