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Dolabriform
Dolabriform Do*lab"ri*form, a. [L. dolabra a mattock + -form.] Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

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- Labriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes which includes the wr****es, cales and parrotfishes, within the clade Percomorpha. Some authors include the...
- The stargazers are a family, Uranoscopidae, of labriform ray-finned fish that have eyes on top of their heads (hence the name). The family includes about...
- pufferfishes). The ocean sunfish displays an extreme example of this mode. In labriform locomotion, seen in the wr****es (Labriformes), oscillatory movements of...
- tuna and other scombrids. The fish propel themselves by a lift-based labriform mode of swimming, that is, by flapping their pectoral fins. This, together...
- The southern sandfishes are a family, Leptoscopidae, of labriform ray-finned fishes inhabiting the Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters of Australia...
- actively over the reef using solely their pectoral fins for thrust (known as labriform locomotion). This species is a protogynous hermaphrodite, some females...
- rigid. This also allows the ghost knife fish to swim in reverse. Labriform: Labriform swimmers are also slow swimmers. They oscillate their pectoral fins...
- effigurate thallus with weak marginal lobes and developed marginal, labriform (lip-shaped) soralia. The lichen was named and formally described by Ulrik...
- Prolatilus is a monotypic genus of labriform ray-finned fish from the family Pinguipedidae. The only species in the genus, Prolatilus jugularis, the Pacific...
- their pectoral fins as the primary means of locomotion, sometimes termed labriform swimming. Marine mammals oscillate their body in an up-and-down (dorso-ventral)...