Definition of Batoidei

1. Noun. Fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes.


Definition of Batoidei

1. n. pl. The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.

Medical Definition of Batoidei

1. The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A kind of ray. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Batoidei

bating
batisite
batiste
batistes
batler
batlers
batless
batlet
batlets
batlike
batmaker
batmakers
batman
batmans
batmen
batoidei (current term)
batoko palm
batologist
batologists
batology
baton
baton twirler
batoned
batoning
batonless
batonlike
batons
batoon
batooned
batooning

Literary usage of Batoidei

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Suborder batoidei, or Rays.—The suborder of batoidei, ... and these families might well be referred to the batoidei, with which group they agree in the ..."

2. The Fishes of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"Order G. batoidei. (THE RAYS. ... K, mont or all of the raya are ovoviviparous. (Suborder batoidei, Günther, Cat., vin, 434-498. ..."

3. A Check-list of the Fishes and Fishlike Vertebrates of North and Middle America by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"Nat., ed. x, 233, 1758, coasts of Europe. Sau Francisco; Mediterranean. Order O. batoidei. The Rays. ..."

4. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"batoidei (skates, rays, torpedoes), are all, with the single exception of the Saw-Fishes ... The typical members of the batoidei are the common skates (Fig. ..."

5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1898)
"M. maculata differs in the position of the pore from all the other species of batoidei which Bridge investigated, a fact which would further tend to have ..."

6. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"The teeth in the mouth, like those of other batoidei, are flattened. Pristis is found both in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas and elsewhere. ..."

7. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The aquaeductus vestibuli opens externally on the head in most Elasmobranchii. The connection between the vestibule and saccule is closed in batoidei, ..."

8. Guide to the Gallery of Fishes in the Department of Zoology of the British by William George Ridewood (1908)
"Wall- The suborder Raii or batoidei includes the Saw-fishes, Skates, and Rays. The form of the body is adapted for living on the sea- bottom ; the pectoral ..."

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