Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of the Catostomidæ.
- noun A fish of the family Catostomidæ. Also
catastomid .
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- noun zoology Any member of the
Catostomidae .
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- noun a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae
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The earliest definite fossil cypriniforms (cyprinid and catostomid) are of Eocene age from China, but very few cyprinid fossils have been found in deposits earlier than Miocene.
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