Teleostomi
Translingual
Etymology
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Proper noun
Teleostomi
- (dated) A paraphyletic group, consisting of jawed vertebrates that includes the Tetrapoda, Osteichthyes (bony fish, now thought descended from placoderms), and the wholly extinct Acanthodii fishes, but excludes Chondrichthyes (rays, sharks, etc), now thought to share ancestry with the †Acanthodii.
See also
References
Teleostomi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Vertebrata (classifications) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Teleostomi at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Teleostomi at Index to Organism Names
- Teleostomi at Paleobiology Database
- Acanthodii at Paleobiology Database
- “Teleostomi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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