Actinopterygii

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/birnlex_482

2007-07-27

* A group of cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates having gills, fins, a cartilaginous or bony endoskeleton, and elongated bodies covered with scales. (MSH) * A vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering of scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. (from Webster, 1913) (NCI) * any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated. (CSP)

13140964

62370

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/readable/Bill_Bug

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/readable/pending_final_vetting

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/readable/UMLS_defSource

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/readable/NCBI_Taxonomy

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/birnlex_7089

Actinopterygii

2007-07-27

bony fishes

ray-finned fishes

7898

Actinopterygii

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Actinopterygii

C0998822

http://uri.neuinfo.org/nif/nifstd/birnlex_188