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neoteleosts

neoteleosts is the plural of neoteleost.

Meaning of neoteleost

Noun

neoteleost (plural neoteleosts)

  1. A member of the clade Neoteleostei of bony fish.
    • Rosen (1973) separated the stomiiforms (= Stomiatoidei) from other protacanthopterygian groups, placing them as the sister-group of all other neoteleosts (Eurypterygii).1996, Antony S. Harold, “Interrelationships of Stomiiform Fishes”, in Melanie L.J. Stiassny, editor, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 333

Questions about neoteleosts

What is neoteleosts the plural of?
Neoteleosts is the plural of neoteleost.

Words near neoteleosts in the dictionary

  1. neoteinia
  2. neoteleost
  3. neoteleostean
  4. neoteleosteans
  5. neoteleostian
  6. neoteleosts
  7. neotendon
  8. neotendons
  9. neotene
  10. neotenia
  11. neotenic

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