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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Pediculati

order Oleales
order Ophioglossales
order Opiliones
order Opuntiales
order Orchidales
order Ornithischia
order Orthoptera
order Ostariophysi
order Ostracodermi
order Palmales
order Pandanales
order Papaverales
order Parietales
order Pectinibranchia
order Pediculati
order Pedipalpi
order Pelecaniformes
order Pelycosauria
order Perciformes
order Percomorphi
order Perissodactyla
order Peronosporales
order Pezizales
order Phalangida
order Phallales
order Phasmatodea
order Phasmida
order Pholidota
order Picariae

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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