< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ABDOMINALS, an order of malacopterygious fishes, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals, as the trout. They comprehend the greater part of fresh water fishes, and constitute the fourth order of the fourth class of animals in the Linnæan system.
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