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Ganoid

noun
1.
Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering.  Synonym: ganoid fish.



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Ganoidei
order Ganoidei


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"Ganoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... part of these bore impressions of primitive organisms. Creation had evidently advanced since the day before. Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains of a more perfect order of beings, amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those sauroids in which palaeontologists have discovered the earliest reptile forms. The Devonian seas were peopled by animals of these species, and deposited them by thousands in the rocks of the ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Ganoid" :   teleostan, Psephurus gladis, teleost fish, bowfin, grindle, gar, garfish, teleost, paddlefish, garpike, duckbill, Amia calva, Chinese paddlefish, order Ganoidei, sturgeon, dogfish, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus, Polyodon spathula


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