Cladistian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cladistian is a noun meaning Any ray-finned fish of the subclass Cladistia.
Meaning
Any ray-finned fish of the subclass Cladistia.
Example Sentences
Cladistians (bichirs) are yet another taxon whose phylogenetic position has been much debated since the nineteenth century. Cladistians share some unique skeletal characters with actinopterans (i.e., acipenseriformes and neopterygians), such as the ganoid scale structure or the acrodin cap on teeth, and numerous soft-tissue characters, notably in brain development (everted telencephalon) and muscles of the jaw and gill arches.
Word Forms
- cladistians
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cladobranch, cladoceran, clinid, cladoselachid, branchiobdellid, clariid.
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