hull-like

Updated: May 27, 2025

The fishes are the lowest among the common vertebrates, and they offer an abundance of independent testimony as to the truth of the principles of comparative anatomy. The common shark is perhaps the most fundamental form, with a hull-like body undivided into head, trunk, and tail, and from it have originated such peculiar variations as the hammerhead and skate.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope