ganoid's Usage Examples:

Fishes were abundant, many of the smaller ganoids are beautifully preserved in an entire condition, other larger forms are represented by fin spines, teeth and bones; Ctenodus, Uronemus, Acanthodes, Cheirodus, Gyracanthus are characteristic genera.

the same family, as well as a very great variety of ganoids and Teleostei, appear in such quantities that they give occupation to nearly Ioo,000 people.

The extinct Stegocephalia, on the other hand, were mostly protected, on the ventral surface at least, by an armour of overlapping round, oval, or rhomboidal scales, often very similar to those of Crossopterygian or ganoid fishes, and likewise disposed in transverse oblique lines converging forwards on the middle line of the belly.

"of Cupar, have been found great quantities of fossils of ganoid fishes.

The forms of batrachians with which we are acquainted show the vertebral column to have been evolved in the course of time from a notochordal condition with segmented centra similar to that of early bony ganoid fishes (e.

Most of the sharks lived in the sea continuously, but the ganoids frequenting the coastal waters appear to have migrated inland.

It is almost made up of fragments of spines, teeth and scales of ganoid fish.

He has shown that, as in the Crossopterygian and Chondrostean ganoid fishes, there co.

Synonyms:

garfish, Psephurus gladis, order Ganoidei, grindle, Lepisosteus osseus, garpike, Amia calva, ganoid fish, teleost fish, duckbill, Ganoidei, teleostan, dogfish, bowfin, teleost, Chinese paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, gar, sturgeon, paddlefish, billfish,

Antonyms:

spiny-finned fish, soft-finned fish, beakless,