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(zoology) Any fish in the obsolete family Macristiidae, which turned out to be a collection of misidentified larval aulopiforms..
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Macristiid means (zoology) Any fish in the obsolete family Macristiidae, which turned out to be a collection of misidentified larval aulopiforms..
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