homocercal in English
adjective
1
(of a fish's tail) appearing outwardly symmetrical but with the backbone passing into the upper lobe, as in all higher fish.
The current literature contains several hypotheses about the function of caudal fins of different shapes, and much of this discussion has focused on the difference between heterocercal and homocercal tails.
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1. Because the vertebrae do not extend into the tail, the white bass has what is called a homocercal tail.