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- adjective of fish In the
Actinopterygii taxonomic class of fish, all having in commonlepidotrichia (a kind of fin made of webs of skin supported by bony or hornyspines ).
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Examples
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Tapeworms probably first evolved in the earliest ray-finned fish.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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One lineage led to ray-finned bony fish: salmon, trout, gar, and thousands of other species.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Tapeworms probably first evolved in the earliest ray-finned fish.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The parasites must have invaded them, coming out of the water in some ray-finned fish.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Tapeworms probably first evolved in the earliest ray-finned fish.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The parasites must have invaded them, coming out of the water in some ray-finned fish.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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If we then push to one side the bony ‘ray-finned fishes’ salmon, trout, tuna, angel fish: just about all the fish you are likely to see that are not sharks, the natural group to which we belong includes all land vertebrates plus the so-called lobe-finned fishes.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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If we then push to one side the bony ‘ray-finned fishes’ salmon, trout, tuna, angel fish: just about all the fish you are likely to see that are not sharks, the natural group to which we belong includes all land vertebrates plus the so-called lobe-finned fishes.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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One lineage led to ray-finned bony fish: salmon, trout, gar, and thousands of other species.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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One lineage led to ray-finned bony fish: salmon, trout, gar, and thousands of other species.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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