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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

catafractos
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Plural of catafract . It means fully covered or fully protected. It was an ancient cavalry unit in which both rider and horse wore armor. They were not useful in prolonged confrontations.

  




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Catafractos : Group of sangiptera fish, of the family of skeletals, which are characterized by having the infraorbital bone extended downwards, attached to the preoperculum by a joint, and more or less armed of spines, just like the operculums and the whole head .

  



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