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What does homocercal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (ichthyology) Describing the symmetric tail of a fish that has two lobes extending from the end of the vertebral column.
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Both mammals and reptiles returning to the sea developed quite workable homocercal tails in very short order.
In postflexion larvae, the caudal fin had a rounded, homocercal outline with about 8 rays in each of the upper and lower lobes.
Generally, osteolepiforms have homocercal, or even trilobate, tail fins.
This caudal fin structure contrasts with the externally symmetrical homocercal morphology present in most teleost fishes such as bluegill sunfish.
Teleosts are distinguished primarily by the presence of a homocercal tail, a tail in which the upper and lower halves are about equal.
The tail fin of most ray-finned fish, with the exception of sturgeons and paddlefish, is homocercal, nearly symmetrical about the midline.

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