Cladistia
plural noun
Cla·dis·tia
kləˈdistēə
: an order of Teleostomi comprising primitive bony freshwater African fishes that have scales, head skeleton, and pectoral arch which resemble those of the extinct Archistia and that include the bichir and the reedfish compare polypterus
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from clad- + -istia (from Greek histia, plural of histion web, cloth, sail, from histanai to make stand, stand)