polypteroid

Any fish of the family Polypteridae.

Noun

  1. Any fish of the family Polypteridae.
    • But this seems an unnatural arrangement; although the polypteroids and acipenserids are similar in that the number of fin rays is greater than the number of their basal skeletal supports and because there is an...

Forms

polypteroids

Hyponyms

bichir reedfish