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Peter Humphry Greenwood
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Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), London, 1985–89. Author of The Fishes of Uganda; coauthor of the major modern classification of the bony fishes.

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A large pirarucu fish (Arapaima gigas) with dark scales and reddish tail swims in an aquarium, with tree-like structures and aquatic plants in the background.
Osteoglossomorph, (superorder Osteoglossomorpha), any member of what is widely believed to be the most primitive group of bony fishes. This reputation stems from their rudimentary caudal skeleton and the lack of a set of intermuscular bones throughout the abdominal and anterior caudal regions of…
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