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| | TELEOSTOMES - LoveToKnow Article on TELEOSTOMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | A large group of aberrant, degraded fishes, heralded by the Cretaceous genus Urenchelys, the most generalized of eels. |
 | | Mostly marine, many bathybial; some living principally in fresh water, hut breeding in the sea, like the common eel (see articles EEL and MURAENA). |
 | | Pectoral arch suspended from the skull; no mesocoracoid bone. |
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