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- noun Plural form of
chondrichthyan .
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Examples
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Fishes were also diverse and abundant – there were a number of sharks and other chondrichthyans but also bony fishes, and among them is probably the biggest bony fish of them all: Leedsichthys.
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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Fishes were also diverse and abundant – there were a number of sharks and other chondrichthyans but also bony fishes, and among them is probably the biggest bony fish of them all: Leedsichthys.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Sharks and rays are chondrichthyans which means most of their 'bones' are cartilage.
Things inside a skate egg case AYDIN 2007
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What I have said is that the lack of ingroup resolution is consonant with a series of plesions that do not properly polarize the major ingroup clade of coelacanths, teleosts, and chondrichthyans.
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