Holostei

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Holostei

  1. Bony fish with primitive characteristics; the bowfin and the gars
    1. A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Neopterygii.
    2. A taxonomic class within the superclass Actinopterygii.[1]

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  • A paraphyletic group, likely to be reclassified.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI