NOUN | animal | homocercal fin | symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes |
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Meaning | symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes. | |
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Broader | tail fin, caudal fin | The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates |
Opposite | heterocercal fin | A tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger / larger lobe as in sharks |
Spanish | homocerca | |
Catalan | homocerca |
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