Semionotidae

fish family

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characteristics

  • Holostei
    In holostean: Extant groups

    …years ago), belongs to the Semionotidae. Members of this family have small mouths and strong teeth, heavily ossified (that is, composed of true bone rather than cartilage) dermal bones, and hemiheterocercal tails. The body may be fusiform (tapered at both ends), as in Semionotus, or flat and disk-shaped, as in…

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