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acanthomorphs

acanthomorphs is the plural of acanthomorph.

Meaning of acanthomorph

Noun

acanthomorph (plural acanthomorphs)

  1. Any of the fish of the 14,000 species in the clade Acanthomorpha in infraclass Teleostei
    • Most rarely, Cretaceous and Tertiary phyllodont remains are related to the modern acanthomorph family Labridae (Labrodon).2015 December 17, “A Fish Assemblage from the Middle Eocene from Libya (Dur At-Talah) and the Earliest Record of Modern African Fish Genera”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about acanthomorphs

What is acanthomorphs the plural of?
Acanthomorphs is the plural of acanthomorph.

Words near acanthomorphs in the dictionary

  1. acanthomata
  2. acanthomatous
  3. acanthometrid
  4. acanthometrids
  5. acanthomorph
  6. acanthomorphs
  7. acanthonotozomatid
  8. acanthonotozomatids
  9. acanthopelvis
  10. acanthophorous
  11. acanthophyll

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