- (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...
-
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...
-
cartilaginous fish) and the
Osteichthyes (or
bony fish). The
bony fish evolved into two
separate groups: the
Actinopterygii (or ray-finned
fish) and Sarcopterygii...
- 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...
-
composed of cartilage. They can be
contrasted with the
Osteichthyes or
bony fish,
which have
skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. Chondrichthyes...
- tetrapods, and the
bony fish that
often represent the
group are more
closely related to
tetrapods such as whales, than to the
cartilaginous fish such as sharks...
- paraphyletic)
Superclass Osteichthyes (
bony fish)
class Actinopterygii (ray-finned
fish)
Clade Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish and tetrapods) The
above scheme...
- the outside. The
bony fish have
three pairs of arches,
cartilaginous fish have five to
seven pairs,
while the
primitive jawless fish have seven. The vertebrate...
-
evidence for deep-sea
bony fish older than 50
million years in the Paleogene. The
Cretaceous origin for most
modern deep-sea
fish has been
further affirmed...
