Order Summary for Lampriformes

Ordnung Übersicht for Lampriformes
Hauptref
:
Ordnung
:
Lampriformes velifers, tube-eyes and ribbonfishes
Klasse
:
Teleostei
Sister Order
:
Myctophiformes 70 M years
Ref.
:
First Fossil Record
:
late Cretaceous
Occurs in
:
Seewasser
Süsswasser
Brackwasser
Bemerkung
:
No true spines in fins; premaxilla excludes maxilla from gape; unique type of protrusible upper jaw (maxilla, instead of being ligamentously attached to the ethmoid and palatine, slides in and out with the highly protractile premaxilla in at least the first four suborders); pelvic fins with 0-17 rays; swim bladder, when present, physoclistous; orbitosphenoid present in some.
Klasse etymology
:
Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335.
Ordnung etymology
:
Greek, lampris, light, clear + Latin, forma = shape (Ref. 45335).
Familien
:


Ref.
[ e.g. 9948 ]      
Glossary
      [ e.g. oophagy ]

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