Polypterus


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Po`lyp`te`rus


n.1.(Zool.) An African genus of ganoid fishes including the bichir.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Representative genera of Nilotic fish species in these water bodies are Alestes, Bagrus Barilius, Citharinus, Hydrocynus, Hyperopisus, Labeo, Malapterurus, Mormyrus, polypterus and protopterus [8].
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