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Nelson, J.S., 1994

Batrachoidiformes toadfishes

Actinopterygii

Gadiformes 20 M years

Carroll, R., 1988  |  Helfman, G., B. Collette and D. Facey, 1997

middle Tertiary

ສັດທະເລ

ຄວາມສົດ

ນ້ຳກ່ອຍ

Body usually scaleless (small cycloid scales in some); head large with eyes more dorsal than lateral; mouth large and bordered by premaxilla and maxilla; pore (foramen) in axil of pectoral fin in some; pelvic fins jugular (in front of pectorals), with one spine and two or three soft rays; three pairs of gills; gill membrane broadly joined to isthmus; branchiostegal rays six; four or five pectoral radials; swim bladder present; upper hypurals with peculiar intervertebrallike basal articulation with rest of caudal skeleton; no ribs, epiotics, or intercalars; no pyloric caeca.

Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335.

Greek, batrachos = frog + Latin, forma = shape (Ref. 45335).

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Batrachoididae

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