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Definition of viviparous fishes

viviparous fishes
Embiotocoid Em`bi*ot"o*coid, a. [NL. Embiotoca, the name of one genus + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.) Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocid[ae]. -- n. One of a family of fishes (Embiotocid[ae]) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See Illust. in Append.

Meaning of viviparous fishes from wikipedia

- ovoviviparous. Ovoviviparity occurs in most live-bearing bony fishes (Poeciliidae). Viviparous fish include the families Goodeidae, Anablepidae, Jenynsiidae...
- from the parent fish, but a few are viviparous, receiving food from the maternal blood supply. [citation needed] Because the newborn fish are large compared...
- The viviparous eelpout (Zoarces viviparus), also known as the, viviparous blenny and European eelpout is species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to...
- family of freshwater fishes of the order Cyprinodontiformes, the tooth-carps, and include well-known live-bearing aquarium fish, such as the guppy, molly...
- chicks. The majority of fish are oviparous, though there are many that are ovoviviparous and viviparous. Many oviparous fish display no maternal behaviors...
- of fishes is remarkably diversified: they may be oviparous (lay eggs), ovoviviparous (retain the eggs in the body until they hatch), or viviparous (have...
- for several years before venturing into deeper waters. Lemon sharks are viviparous, meaning that the mother directly transfers nutrients to her young via...
- modified bony fishes, and so we are comfortable with using the taxon Osteichthyes as a clade, which now includes all tetrapods... Fishes of the World (5th...
- be common to all viviparous species, but those with fully developed placentas such as found in the Theria, some skinks, and some fish can rely on the placenta...
- fishes, and early sharks, earning the Devonian the epithet "the age of fishes". Fishes are a paraphyletic group, since any clade containing all fish,...