A suborder of primitive bony fish that are related to ancient fish groups, characterized by certain skeletal features.
From Greek amia (a type of fish) + -oidei (Greek suffix meaning resembling). Amioidei are fish that resemble or are related to the bowfin (Amia calva).
Amioidei are living fossils—the bowfin fish in North American lakes today is virtually unchanged from fish swimming 200 million years ago, making them windows into Earth's prehistoric oceans.
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