acanthomorph

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acanthomorph (plural acanthomorphs)

  1. Any of the fish of the 14,000 species in the clade Acanthomorpha in infraclass Teleostei
    • 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[1], →DOI:
      Most rarely, Cretaceous and Tertiary phyllodont remains are related to the modern acanthomorph family Labridae (Labrodon).

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