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- noun zoology Any member of the Tetragonuridae.
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mollusque commented on the word tetragonurid
The tetragonurid squaretails are round fishes encircled by ridged scales and with a long caudal peduncle that has a single keel on either side formed from scale ridges.
--Gene S. Helfman, Bruce B. Collette and Douglas E. Facey, 1997 The Diversity of Fishes, p. 267
June 19, 2010