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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In Agassiz's classification, an artificial group of fishes, having placoid scales: correlated with Ctenoidei, Cycloidei, and Ganoidei. It is mainly equivalent to the class Elasmobranchii, but also included the naked marsipobranchs.

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