- the
morphology of the Holostei, for
example presence of a
paired vomer.
Holosteans are
closer to
teleosts than are the chondrosteans, the
other group intermediate...
-
chondrosteans (sturgeons and paddlefish) also
differ from the
bichirs and
holosteans (bowfin and gars) in
having gone
through a whole-genome
duplication (paleopolyploidy)...
- fishes, and over half of all
living vertebrate species.
While living holosteans include only
freshwater taxa,
teleosts are
diverse in both freshwater...
- from a
scaffolding of struts,
rather than the
dense cancellous bones of
holostean fish. In addition, the
lower jaw of the
teleost is
reduced to just three...
-
stood by
their original conclusion based on the
absence of
important holostean characters, and
noted that it
could not be a juvenile,
since the bones...
-
epidermis was
covered with tiny
rhomboid platelets like the
scales of
holosteans (gars, bowfins). They may have been an
independent phylogenetic branch...
- from a
scaffolding of struts,
rather than the
dense cancellous bones of
holostean fish.
Teleosts are
found in
almost all
marine habitats. They have enormous...
-
extinction event. The
earliest known neopterygian fish,
including early holosteans and teleosts,
appeared near the
beginning of the Tri****ic, and quickly...
-
providing evidence of the
presence of
durophagous sharks, stem-neopterygians,
holosteans and (less common) ****tive
basal teleosts, is
published by Pindakiewicz...
-
Archaeolepidotus is an
extinct genus of
prehistoric marine holostean bony fish that
lived during the
latest Permian or
earliest Tri****ic in what is now...
