gnathostome

gnathostome
Any vertebrate with jaws, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and most modern fish.

Current conceptions of gnathostome phylogeny depict a rather simplistic arrangement of nominally monophyletic and, apparently, morphologically disparate groups.


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