fin web

fin web
1) the fin membrane
2) the compressed part of the shark fin, distal to the base and supported only by ceratotrichia (q.v.) , the aplesodic fin (q.v.), or by ceratotrichia surrounding expanded fin radials or by radials only, the plesodic fin (q.v.)

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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