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A species in the Molidae subfamily, which includes molas and ocean sunfish..
The moloids are without pelvis or ribs; they have the body truncated behind, the caudal region aborted, and the jaws without median sutures.
The latter are divided into two clades, one of which is composed of the remaining scleroderms, with Balistidae + Monacanthidae (balistoids) as sister to Aracanidae + Ostraciidae (ostracioids); the other is composed of the gymnodonts, with Triodontidae (triodontoids) as sister to (Tetraodontidae + Diodontidae, tetraodontoids) and Molidae (moloids); the tetraodontid genus Canthigaster was recognized as familially distinct from the Tetraodontidae, and immediate sister to it.
geph-y'ro-cer"cal. […] Having the caudal fin formed by the dorsal and anal uniting over the aborted axis of the body, as in moloid sunfishes.
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Moloid means A species in the Molidae subfamily, which includes molas and ocean sunfish..
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The moloids are without pelvis or ribs; they have the body truncated behind, the caudal region aborted, and the jaws without median sutures.
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