- ost-ee-IK-theez), also
known as
osteichthyans or
commonly referred to as the
bony fish, is a
diverse superclass of
vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons...
- tetrapods, and the
bony fish that
often represent the
group are more
closely related to
cetaceans such as whales, than to the
cartilaginous fish such as sharks...
- in the
sides of the pharynx. Some
fish, like
sharks and lampreys,
possess multiple gill openings. However,
bony fish have a
single gill
opening on each...
- 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...
-
cartilaginous fish) and the
Osteichthyes (or
bony fish). The
bony fish evolved into two
separate groups: the
Actinopterygii (or ray-finned
fish) and Sarcopterygii...
-
cartilaginous fishes such as sharks, and in
bony fishes such as
coelacanths and sturgeons, and must
therefore be ancient. Most
bony fishes have secondarily...
-
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...
-
pectoral or
pelvic fins. In
addition to this, some
placoderms (extinct
fish with
bony plates) were
shown to have a
third pair of
paired appendages, that had...
- (Actinopterygii), fins are
mainly composed of
bony spines or rays
covered by a thin
stretch of
scaleless skin; in lobe-finned
fish (Sarcopterygii) such as coelacanths...
- fins'),
members of
which are
known as ray-finned
fish or actinopterygians, is a
class of
bony fish that
comprise over 50% of
living vertebrate species...
