bony fish
any fish of the class Osteichthyes, characterized by gill covers, an air bladder, and a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage.
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Across 65,000 living species in total, nearly half are bony fish like piranhas, salmon, or seahorses.
Because light is so low, the animals, the bony fish, sharks, and many kinds of mobile invertebrates, largely eschew bright color displays.
The oarfish is the largest living bony fish, reaching up to 35 feet in length.
Fishy Mystery: Are Beached Oarfish Trying to Tell Us Something? | Kevin Bailey | October 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA pair of giant, bony fish—one 18 feet long—have washed up on California beaches this week.
Fishy Mystery: Are Beached Oarfish Trying to Tell Us Something? | Kevin Bailey | October 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the Amphibian skull there are as a rule far fewer bones than in the skull of bony fish.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
The fishermen of Key West usually know the lady-fish as bone-fish, and the ten-pounder as bony-fish.
Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander HenshallHe went down to the sea-shore and he came upon a pool filled with thin bony fish called skates.
The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said | Padraic ColumIn the embryo of the bony fish a similar notochord precedes the segmentation and ossification of the vertebral column.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr JordanBut it is not evident that a bony fish possesses a real scapula, coracoid, or even clavicle.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr Jordan
British Dictionary definitions for bony fish
any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
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Scientific definitions for bony fish
[ bō′nē ]
Any of numerous ray-finned fishes belonging to the infraclass Teleostei or Teleostomi, having a skeleton that is completely made of bone, rather than partially or completely made of cartilage. Most living species of fish are bony fish. Also called teleost Compare cartilaginous fish jawless fish.
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