cyclopteroidea love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A superfamily of acanthopterygian fishes, distinguished by the development of a suctorial disk resulting from the union of the ventral fins and the fixture of their rays to the pelvic bones. It includes the families Cyclopteridæ and Liparididæ.

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