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fish
Also known as: Oplegnathidae
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  • Bluefin tuna swimming underwater in a group, with silvery bodies and streamlined shapes, near Japan.
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    Family Oplegnathidae (knifejaws) Pliocene to present. Strongly resemble Scorpidae and Kyphosidae, but incisiform teeth of young become fused in adult to form a parrotlike beak to upper and lower jaws; these fishes are not related to true parrot fishes (Scaridae); several species of shorefishes mostly in tropics…

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    Family Oplegnathidae (knifejaws) Pliocene to present. Strongly resemble Scorpidae and Kyphosidae, but incisiform teeth of young become fused in adult to form a parrotlike beak to upper and lower jaws; these fishes are not related to true parrot fishes (Scaridae); several species of shorefishes mostly in tropics…

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