leptocephalus
a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
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How to use leptocephalus in a sentence
Teleostean fishes are generally bony, but the bones are represented by cartilages in leptocephalus.
In H. leptocephalus the posterior nares are brought very far back by the meeting of the alisphenoids.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers Beddard
British Dictionary definitions for leptocephalus
/ (ˌlɛptəʊˈsɛfələs) /
the slender transparent oceanic larva of eels of the genus Anguilla that migrates from its hatching ground in the Caribbean to European freshwater habitats
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