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CYPRINODONTIFORMES

Specialty Definition: CYPRINODONTIFORMES

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An order of fish with eight families and numerous species of both egg-laying and livebearing fish. It includes two suborders, Adrianichthyoidei (egg layers) and Cyprinodontoidei (egg layers and livebearers). The latter suborder comprises Cyprinodontidae (egg-laying killifish), Goodeidae (Mexican livebearers), Jenynsiidae (jenynsiids), Anablepidae (four-eyed fish), Poeciliidae (livebearers). Of the suborder Poeciliidae, the guppy and molly belong to the genus Poecilia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Cyprinodontiformes

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The Cyprinodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Microcyprini, and comprising mostly small, fresh-water fish. They are closely related to the Atheriniformes and are occasionally included with them. Many popular aquarium fish, such as killifish and live-bearers, belong here.

                                              Death Valley pupfish

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cyprinodontiformes."

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Anagrams: CYPRINODONTIFORMES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-y"

-5 letters: decomposition, disconformity, microporosity, preconditions, recomposition.

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Alternative Orthography: CYPRINODONTIFORMES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 59 50 52 49 4E 4F 44 4F 4E 54 49 46 4F 52 4D 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    -.--.    .--.    .-.    ..    -.    ---    -..    ---    -.    -    ..    ..-.    ---    .-.    --    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01011001 01010000 01010010 01001001 01001110 01001111 01000100 01001111 01001110 01010100 01001001 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001101 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0059 0050 0052 0049 004E 004F 0044 004F 004E 0054 0049 0046 004F 0052 004D 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

375950524348493849485443404952473953

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