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Osteichthyes (class)


Identification code: 300265954




Alternative term/s

  • bony fish
  • bony fishes
  • fishes, bony
  • Pisces

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Scope note:

Class of acquatic animals (fish) characterized by possessing a skeleton at least partly composed of true bone (as opposed to cartilage) and typically a swim bladder (an air-filled sac to give buoyancy), a single pair of gills, gill covers over the gill chamber, bony platelike scales, a skull with sutures, and external fertilization of eggs. Modern bony fishes represent over 20,000 species in more than 400 families. In some classifications it is listed as a superclass instead of a class.

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