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Definition of Isospondyli
1. Noun. Most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Malacopterygii, Superorder Malacopterygii
Member holonyms: Family Gonorhynchidae, Gonorhynchidae, Clupeidae, Family Clupeidae, Engraulidae, Family Engraulidae, Family Salmonidae, Salmonidae, Coregonidae, Family Coregonidae, Family Osmeridae, Osmeridae, Elopidae, Family Elopidae, Albulidae, Family Albulidae, Argentinidae, Family Argentinidae, Family Myctophidae, Myctophidae
Definition of Isospondyli
1. n. pl. An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms.
Medical Definition of Isospondyli
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Isospondyli
Literary usage of Isospondyli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"isospondyli vertebral centra are feebly developed, and the dorsal fin short and
posterior. In Leptolepis the anal is short and placed behind the dorsal. ..."
2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Order isospondyli. The Clupeoid and Salmonoid Fishes. This order, which comprises
some of the commonest and most valuable of our soft-rayed fishes, ..."
3. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"Order isospondyli. The Clupeoid and Salmonoid Fishes. This order, which comprises
some of the commonest and most valuable of our soft-rayed fishes, ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"There is no sharp line separating the isospondyli or Salmon- herring series from
... Myctophidae) hitherto attached to the isospondyli, these are placed by ..."
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