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Definition of Acanthopterygii
1. Noun. Teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Member holonyms: Berycomorphi, Order Berycomorphi, Order Zeomorphi, Zeomorphi, Order Pediculati, Pediculati, Acanthopterygian, Spiny-finned Fish, Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi, Discocephali, Order Discocephali, Order Scleroparei, Scleroparei, Scorpaenoidea, Suborder Scorpaenoidea, Order Plectognathi, Order Tetraodontiformes, Plectognathi, Heterosomata, Order Heterosomata, Order Pleuronectiformes
Group relationships: Subclass Teleostei, Teleostei
Definition of Acanthopterygii
1. n. pl. An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.
Medical Definition of Acanthopterygii
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acanthopterygii
Literary usage of Acanthopterygii
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"ORDER I. acanthopterygii. The acanthopterygii form the first and by far the most
numerous division of Ordinary Fishes. They are recognized by the spines ..."
2. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"CHAPTER XI acanthopterygii ... RDER acanthopterygii, the Spiny-rayed Fishes.
— The most of the remaining bony fishes constitute a natural group for which ..."
3. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"... the most important genera and species which have up to the present been found
in the Japanese waters. I. ORDER. PRICKLY-FINNED FISHES (acanthopterygii). ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"Dorsal outline from end of muzzle to end of second dorsal plane. D. У.—12. A.
25. V. 1—5. P. 10. Length to base of caudal acanthopterygii. ..."
5. Zoology: A Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits, Instincts by William Benjamin Carpenter (1848)
"ORDER I.—acanthopterygii. 555. Of this Order, one of the principal families is
that of ... acanthopterygii."
6. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"acanthopterygii. In this division a great number of new species have been introduced.
PERCID^E.—Perea lavis, Jenyns, Beagle. Black brown, punctated, snout ..."
7. Reports on the Progress of Zoology and Botany, 1841, 1842 by Ray Society, Heinrich Friedrich Link (1845)
"... he divides again into an aberrant group, acanthopterygii (Artedi), all of
which he thinks have ..."
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