- (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...
-
cartilaginous fish) and the
Osteichthyes (or
bony fish). The
bony fish evolved into two
separate groups: the
Actinopterygii (or ray-finned
fish) and Sarcopterygii...
- The
anglerfish are
fish of the
teleost order Lophiiformes (/ˌlɒfiɪˈfɔːrmiːz/). They are
bony fish named for
their characteristic mode of predation, in...
- 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...
- genera. One of these, the
giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne), is the
longest bony fish alive,
growing up to
about 8 m (26 ft) in length. The
common name oarfish...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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...
