- The Opah, also
commonly known as moonfish,
sunfish (not to be
confused with Molidae), cowfish, kingfish, and
redfin ocean pan are large, colorful, deep-bodied...
- /ˈlæmprɪfɔːrmiːz/ is an
order of ray-finned fish.
Members are
collectively called lamprids (which is more
properly used for the Lampridae) or lampriforms, and unite...
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Analectis pala is an
extinct lamprid of the
family Turkmenidae, of
which it was the last
surviving member. Its
fossils are
found from
Early Oligocene...
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nuper mercatus est, Cic. pro Rose. Amer. 46.133;
authepsas argenteas,
Lamprid. Heliog. 19). Many
ingenious contrivances for
economical and
portable cooking...
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unilaminar lamp- shine,
torch Gr**** λάμπειν (lámpein), λαμπάς (lampás) lamp,
lamprid,
Lampris lapid-
stone Latin lapis,
lapidis dilapidate, dilapidation, lapidarian...
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Nardovelifer altipinnis is the
oldest known lamprid fish. It
dates from the
Campanian age of Nardò, Italy. C.
Sorbini & L.
Sorbini (1999). "The Cretaceous...
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Danatinia is an
extinct genus of
lamprid fish from the Eocene. It
contains a
single species, D.
casca from
Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the earliest...
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Turkmenidae is an
extinct family of
lamprids from the
Paleogene of the west-central Asia, in what was
formerly the Peri-Tethys Ocean. They were small,...
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Salmasius proposes it to be
derived from the Gr**** βαστάζω (Salm. ad
Lamprid. Heliog. 21). C****ius Dio
links it to the
people known as the Bastarnae...
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features of both
taeniosomid lamprids (i.e., its
larval form
resembles those of
oarfish and ribbonfish), and of
bathysomid lamprids (the
anatomy of the pelvis...
