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How to use ctenoid in a sentence

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The scales may be cycloid, ctenoid, or absent and the lateral line is absent.
Actinopterygians may have ganoid, cycloid, or ctenoid scales, or no scales at all in many groups.
Triplefin blennies are also unique among blennies in that they possess ctenoid scales.
The skull bones are not spiny, but the scales are often ctenoid.
True bony fish have ctenoid or cycloid scales.
Grammicolepidids have dorsoventrally elongate linear scales rather than the cycloid or ctenoid scales of other zeiform families.
Ctenoid scales are rough in texture because they have tiny teeth along their edges.
Examples from Classical Literature
The distinctions between cycloid and ctenoid scales, between placoid and ganoid fishes, are vague, and can hardly be maintained.
There are two principal types of Teleostean scales, the cycloid and ctenoid.
In general, prickly points on the skin are modifications of ctenoid scales.
The cycloid and ctenoid scales of Teleosteans are thin plates coated with epidermis.
The exoskeleton is sometimes absent but generally consists of overlapping cycloid or ctenoid scales.
A ctenoid scale differs in having its posterior margin pectinate.
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