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An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

[Gr.] (Ichth.) The fourth order of teleostean fishes, including cat-fishes, carps, herrings, eels, and more than twenty other families.