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Bichirs
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Bichirs

Polypteriformes

Bichirs and the reedfish comprise the Polypteridae, a family of archaic-looking ray-finned fishes and the sole family in the order Polypteriformes.

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1 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 14 known species

Bichirs

familyPolypteridae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85540.