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freshwater fish,
which includes the arowanas. They are
commonly known as
bonytongues. The
family has been
regarded as
containing two
extant subfamilies Arapaiminae...
- long based,
while the
pectoral and
ventral fins are small. The name "
bonytongues" is
derived from a
toothed bone on the
floor of the mouth, the "tongue"...
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multiple species. They have
several other common names,
including Asian bonytongue, dragonfish, and a
number of
names specific to the
different color varieties...
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Scleropages jardinii, the Gulf saratoga,
Australian bonytongue,
pearl arowana or
northern saratoga, is a
freshwater bony fish
native to
Australia and New...
- (freshwater
butterfly fishes)
Family Osteoglossidae Bonaparte, 1845 (
bonytongues)
Family Arapaimidae Bonaparte, 1846 (arapaimas)
Family Notopteridae Bl****er...
- The arapaima, pirarucu, or
paiche is any
large species of
bonytongue in the
genus Arapaima native to the
Amazon and
Essequibo basins of
South America....
-
Hiodontiformes (mooneyes)
Osteoglossiformes (
bonytongues, elephantfishes) 250 mya...
- (Latin: "bony tongues") that
contains the butterflyfish, the
arowanas and
bonytongues, as well as
extinct families. "Mikko's
Phylogeny for Osteoglossiformes"...
- were not
initially recognized as
bonytongues. It
belonged to a now-extinct
clade of
marine and
freshwater bonytongues known as the Phareodontinae, which...
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relatives Family Potamotrygonidae:
river stingrays Family Arapaimidae:
bonytongues Family Loricariidae:
suckermouth catfishes Family Callichthyidae: armored...
