cladistian
cladistian noun: any ray-finned fish of the subclass Cladistia.
Noun
cladistian (plural cladistians)
- Any ray-finned fish of the subclass Cladistia.
- Cladistians (bichirs) are yet another taxon whose phylogenetic position has been much debated since the nineteenth century. Cladistians share some unique skeletal characters with actinopterans (i.e., acipenseriformes and neopterygians), such as the ganoid scale structure or the acrodin cap on...2011, Fish Physiology: Primitive Fishes, page 15
Forms of cladistian
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Questions about cladistian
- What does cladistian mean?
- Cladistian means any ray-finned fish of the subclass Cladistia.
- What part of speech is cladistian?
- Cladistian is a noun.
- What is the plural of cladistian?
- The plural of cladistian is cladistians.
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