- (ostéon) 'bone' and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) '
fish'), also
known as
osteichthyans or
commonly referred to as the
bony fish, is a
diverse clade of
vertebrate animals...
- the pharynx. Some
fish, like
sharks and lampreys,
possess multiple gill openings, but the most
common group of
fish alive, the
bony fish, have a
single gill...
- digits.
Fish can be
grouped into the more
basal jawless fish and the more
common jawed fish, the
latter including all
living cartilaginous and
bony fish, as...
-
forms the
support structure inside the
fish, is
either made of
cartilage (cartilaginous
fish) or bone (
bony fish). The main
skeletal element is the vertebral...
-
cartilaginous fish) and the
Osteichthyes (or
bony fish). The
bony fish evolved into two
separate groups: the
Actinopterygii (or ray-finned
fish) and Sarcopterygii...
-
their own classes:
Fish account for more than half of
vertebrate species. As of 2016,
there are over 32,000
described species of
bony fish, over 1,100 species...
-
composed of cartilage. They can be
contrasted with the
Osteichthyes or
bony fish,
which have
skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. Chondrichthyes...
-
including all
living bony fishes (both ray-finned and lobe-finned,
including their terrestrial tetrapod relatives) and
cartilaginous fishes, as well as extinct...
- tetrapods, and the
bony fish that
often represent the
group are more
closely related to
tetrapods such as whales, than to the
cartilaginous fish such as sharks...
-
petrels of today. Both
probably pre**** on
small fish and were pre**** upon by sharks,
large bony fish such as Xiphactinus, and mosasaurs. Clams, oysters...
