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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...
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which includes the
arowanas and arapaima. They are
commonly known as
bonytongues. The
family contains two
extant subfamilies Arapaiminae and Osteoglossinae...
- 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"...
- were not
initially recognized as
bonytongues. It
belonged to a now-extinct
clade of
marine and
freshwater bonytongues known as the Phareodontinae, which...
- (Latin: "bony tongues") that
contains the butterflyfish, the
arowanas and
bonytongues, as well as
extinct families. "Mikko's
Phylogeny for Osteoglossiformes"...
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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...
- 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....
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relatives Family Potamotrygonidae:
river stingrays Family Arapaimidae:
bonytongues Family Loricariidae:
suckermouth catfishes Family Callichthyidae: armored...
- (19.5 in) Not to be
confused with the
featherback "knifefish" of the
Bonytongue group (see above) 23-28C (73-82F) 6.0-8.0
Brown ghost knifefish Apteronotus...
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Polypterus senegalus, a fish of the
family Polypteridae Asian arowana, a
bonytongue fish of the
family Osteoglossidae Draconichthys, an
arthrodire placoderm...
