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Title: !Fishes 2

Description: Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes: Class Actinopterygii: Subclass Chondrostei

Total Flash Cards: 8

Created: 11/11/2009 09:32:25

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Term
Chondrostei
 Definition
cartilaginous bony fishes; most primitive living actinopterygians
Term
primitive features
 Definition
spiral valve intestine; no centra; heterocercal tail; ganoid scales (scutes on sturgeons-enamel layer of ganoine, pulp cavity lacking)
Term
skeleton
 Definition
cartilaginous
Term
tail
 Definition
heterocercal
Term
spiracle
 Definition
present
Term
intestine
 Definition
spiral valve
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sensory
 Definition
ampullae of lorenzini
Term
osteichythyes traits
 Definition
branchiostegal rays, pleural ribs