Definitions for "Homocercal"
Keywords:  vertebral, caudal, fin, tail, lobe
Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.
A caudal fin in which the vertebral column ends in a plate at its base and does not extend into the dorsal lobe. The base is at right angles to the long axis of the body.
equally lobed; said of the tail or caudal fin when upper and lower lobes are more or less equal, and the backbone or vertebral column ends at the middle of the base of the fin