Actinopterygii, the Glossary
Actinopterygii, members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.[1]
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355 relations: Acanthomorpha, Acanthopterygii, Acipenseriformes, Actinopteri, Alepocephalidae, Alepocephaliformes, Alfonsino, Amblyopsidae, Ambush predator, American paddlefish, Amiiformes, Amniote, Amphibian, Ampullae of Lorenzini, Anabantiformes, Anableps anableps, Anchovy, Andreolepis, Anglerfish, Apogonidae, Aquatic animal, Arapaima, Araripichthys, Argentiniformes, Asarotus, Aspidorhynchidae, Atheriniformes, Atlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic sturgeon, Aulopiformes, Barb (fish), Barreleye, Basal (phylogenetics), Batoidea, Batrachoididae, Beardfish, Beloniformes, Benthic zone, Beryciformes, Bichir, Billfish, Bird, Birgeria, Blenniiformes, Bobasatraniiformes, Bombay duck, Bonefishes, Bowfin, Buoyancy, ... Expand index (305 more) »
- Extant Silurian first appearances
- Fish classes
- Ray-finned fish
- Silurian bony fish
Acanthomorpha
Acanthomorpha (meaning "thorn-shaped") is an extraordinarily diverse taxon of teleost fishes with spiny fin rays.
See Actinopterygii and Acanthomorpha
Acanthopterygii
Acanthopterygii (meaning "spiny finned one") is a superorder of bony fishes in the class Actinopterygii.
See Actinopterygii and Acanthopterygii
Acipenseriformes
Acipenseriformes is an order of basal ray-finned fishes that includes living and fossil sturgeons and paddlefishes (Acipenseroidei), as well as the extinct families Chondrosteidae and Peipiaosteidae.
See Actinopterygii and Acipenseriformes
Actinopteri
Actinopteri is the sister group of Cladistia (bichirs) in the class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish).
See Actinopterygii and Actinopteri
Alepocephalidae
Slickheads, also known as nakedheads or smoothheads, are deep water fishes that belong to the family Alepocephalidae.
See Actinopterygii and Alepocephalidae
Alepocephaliformes
Alepocephaliformes is an order of marine deep-sea teleost fishes.
See Actinopterygii and Alepocephaliformes
Alfonsino
The alfonsino (Beryx decadactylus), also known as the alfonsin, longfinned beryx, red bream, or imperador, is a species of deepwater berycid fish of the order Beryciformes.
See Actinopterygii and Alfonsino
Amblyopsidae
The Amblyopsidae are a fish family commonly referred to as cavefish, blindfish, or swampfish.
See Actinopterygii and Amblyopsidae
Ambush predator
Ambush predators or sit-and-wait predators are carnivorous animals that capture their prey via stealth, luring or by (typically instinctive) strategies utilizing an element of surprise.
See Actinopterygii and Ambush predator
American paddlefish
The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), also known as a Mississippi paddlefish, spoon-billed cat, or spoonbill, is a species of ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and American paddlefish
Amiiformes
The Amiiformes order of fish has only two extant species, the bowfins: Amia calva and Amia ocellicauda, the latter recognized as a separate species in 2022.
See Actinopterygii and Amiiformes
Amniote
Amniotes are tetrapod vertebrate animals belonging to the clade Amniota, a large group that comprises the vast majority of living terrestrial and semiaquatic vertebrates.
See Actinopterygii and Amniote
Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
See Actinopterygii and Amphibian
Ampullae of Lorenzini
Ampullae of Lorenzini (ampulla) are electroreceptors, sense organs able to detect electric fields.
See Actinopterygii and Ampullae of Lorenzini
Anabantiformes
The Anabantiformes, collectively known as labyrinth fish, are an order of air-breathing freshwater ray-finned fish with two suborders, five families (Channidae, Aenigmachannidae, Anabantidae, Helostomatidae, and Osphronemidae) and having at least 207 species.
See Actinopterygii and Anabantiformes
Anableps anableps
Anableps anableps, the largescale four-eyes, is a species of four-eyed fish found in fresh and brackish waters of northern South America and Trinidad.
See Actinopterygii and Anableps anableps
Anchovy
An anchovy is a small, common forage fish of the family Engraulidae.
See Actinopterygii and Anchovy
Andreolepis
Andreolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric fish, which lived around 420 million years ago. Actinopterygii and Andreolepis are Silurian bony fish.
See Actinopterygii and Andreolepis
Anglerfish
The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Anglerfish
Apogonidae
Cardinalfishes are a family, Apogonidae, of ray-finned fishes found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans; they are chiefly marine, but some species are found in brackish water and a few (notably Glossamia) are found in fresh water.
See Actinopterygii and Apogonidae
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is any animal, whether vertebrate or invertebrate, that lives in water for all or most of its lifetime.
See Actinopterygii and Aquatic animal
Arapaima
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.
See Actinopterygii and Arapaima
Araripichthys
Araripichthys is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived from the Aptian to Coniacian stages of the Cretaceous period.
See Actinopterygii and Araripichthys
Argentiniformes
The Argentiniformes is an order of marine ray-finned fish whose distinctness was recognized only fairly recently.
See Actinopterygii and Argentiniformes
Asarotus
Asarotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish from the Niobrara Formation of Nebraska, during the Campanian.
See Actinopterygii and Asarotus
Aspidorhynchidae
Aspidorhynchidae (from Neo-Latin "shield-snouts") is an extinct family of ray-finned fish from the Mesozoic Era.
See Actinopterygii and Aspidorhynchidae
Atheriniformes
The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old World silversides and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae.
See Actinopterygii and Atheriniformes
Atlantic cod
The Atlantic cod (cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans.
See Actinopterygii and Atlantic cod
Atlantic salmon
The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.
See Actinopterygii and Atlantic salmon
Atlantic sturgeon
The Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) is a member of the family Acipenseridae, and, along with other sturgeon, it is sometimes considered a living fossil.
See Actinopterygii and Atlantic sturgeon
Aulopiformes
Aulopiformes is a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families with about 45 genera and over 230 species.
See Actinopterygii and Aulopiformes
Barb (fish)
A barb is one of various ray-finned fish species in a non-phylogenetic group, with members in the family Cyprinidae, and especially the genera Barbus and Puntius, but many others also.
See Actinopterygii and Barb (fish)
Barreleye
Barreleyes, also known as spook fish (a name also applied to several species of chimaera), are small deep-sea argentiniform fish comprising the family Opisthoproctidae found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
See Actinopterygii and Barreleye
Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
See Actinopterygii and Basal (phylogenetics)
Batoidea
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.
See Actinopterygii and Batoidea
Batrachoididae
Batrachoididae is the only family in the ray-finned fish order Batrachoidiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Batrachoididae
Beardfish
The beardfishes consist of a single extant genus, Polymixia, of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels.
See Actinopterygii and Beardfish
Beloniformes
Beloniformes is an order composed of six families (and about 264 species) of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Beloniformes
Benthic zone
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
See Actinopterygii and Benthic zone
Beryciformes
The Beryciformes are a poorly-understood order of carnivorous ray-finned fishes consisting of 7 families, 30 genera, and 161 species.
See Actinopterygii and Beryciformes
Bichir
Bichirs and the reedfish comprise Polypteridae, a family of archaic ray-finned fishes and the only family in the order Polypteriformes.
Billfish
The billfish are a group of saltwater predatory fish characterised by prominent pointed bills (rostra), and by their large size; some are longer than.
See Actinopterygii and Billfish
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Birgeria
Birgeria is a genus of carnivorous marine ray-finned fish from the Triassic period.
See Actinopterygii and Birgeria
Blenniiformes
Blenny (from the Greek ἡ βλέννα and τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour.
See Actinopterygii and Blenniiformes
Bobasatraniiformes
Bobasatraniiformes is an extinct order of durophagous ray-finned fish that existed from the late Permian to the Middle Triassic in both marine and freshwater environments.
See Actinopterygii and Bobasatraniiformes
Bombay duck
Harpadon nehereus (common names include Bombay duck, bummalo, bombil, bombili, boomla, bumla, lote, loitta) is a species of lizardfish.
See Actinopterygii and Bombay duck
Bonefishes
Albulidae is a family of fish, commonly known as the bonefishes, that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific and the Bahamas (where two bonefish are featured on the 10-cent coin) and elsewhere.
See Actinopterygii and Bonefishes
Bowfin
The bowfin (Amia calva) is a bony fish, native to North America.
Buoyancy
Buoyancy, or upthrust, is a gravitational force, a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.
See Actinopterygii and Buoyancy
Campylomormyrus
Campylomormyrus is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae.
See Actinopterygii and Campylomormyrus
Caproidae
Caproidae, or boarfishes, are a small family of marine fishes comprising two genera and 19 species.
See Actinopterygii and Caproidae
Carangiformes
Carangiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that is part of a sister clade to the Ovalentaria, the other orders in the clade being the Synbranchiformes, Anabantiformes, Istiophoriformes, and Pleuronectiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Carangiformes
Carp
The term carp (carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia.
Cartilage
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue.
See Actinopterygii and Cartilage
Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Catfish
Cenozoic
The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.
See Actinopterygii and Cenozoic
Centrarchidae
Centrarchidae, better known as sunfishes, is a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes (formerly belonging to the deprecated order Centrarchiformes), native only to North America.
See Actinopterygii and Centrarchidae
Centrarchiformes
Centrarchiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, previously included amongst the perciformes, with 21 families.
See Actinopterygii and Centrarchiformes
Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
See Actinopterygii and Cetacea
Cetomimiformes
The Cetomimiformes or whalefishes are an order of small, deep-sea ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Cetomimiformes
Characiformes
Characiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising the characins and their allies.
See Actinopterygii and Characiformes
Cheirolepis
Cheirolepis (from χείρ, 'hand' and λεπίς 'scale') is an extinct genus of marine and freshwater ray-finned fish that lived in the Devonian period of Europe and North America.
See Actinopterygii and Cheirolepis
Chimaera
Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, rat fish, spookfish, or rabbit fish; the last three names are not to be confused with rattails, Opisthoproctidae, or Siganidae, respectively.
See Actinopterygii and Chimaera
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage. Actinopterygii and Chondrichthyes are extant Silurian first appearances and fish classes.
See Actinopterygii and Chondrichthyes
Chondrostei
Chondrostei is a group of non-neopterygian ray-finned fish. Actinopterygii and Chondrostei are extant Silurian first appearances and ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Chondrostei
Chondrosteidae
Chondrosteidae is a family of extinct marine actinopterygian fishes, known from the Early Jurassic of Europe.
See Actinopterygii and Chondrosteidae
Cichlid
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes.
See Actinopterygii and Cichlid
Cichliformes
Cichliformes is an order of fishes.
See Actinopterygii and Cichliformes
Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
Cladistia
Cladistia is a clade of bony fishes whose only living members are the bichirs of tropical Africa. Actinopterygii and Cladistia are ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Cladistia
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
See Actinopterygii and Cladogram
Class (biology)
In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.
See Actinopterygii and Class (biology)
Clupeiformes
Clupeiformes is the order of ray-finned fish that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae.
See Actinopterygii and Clupeiformes
Cod
Cod (cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.
Coelacanth
Coelacanths (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia.
See Actinopterygii and Coelacanth
Cornetfish
The cornetfishes or flutemouths are a small family, the Fistulariidae, of extremely elongated fishes in the order Syngnathiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Cornetfish
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
See Actinopterygii and Cretaceous
Crossognathiformes
Crossognathiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Eocene.
See Actinopterygii and Crossognathiformes
Crown group
In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor.
See Actinopterygii and Crown group
Ctenothrissiformes
Ctenothrissiformes is an extinct order of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Ctenothrissiformes
Cyclostomi
Cyclostomi, often referred to as Cyclostomata, is a group of vertebrates that comprises the living jawless fishes: the lampreys and hagfishes.
See Actinopterygii and Cyclostomi
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others.
See Actinopterygii and Cyprinidae
Cypriniformes
Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid (carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, gobies, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others).
See Actinopterygii and Cypriniformes
Cyprinodontiformes
Cyprinodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising mostly small, freshwater fish.
See Actinopterygii and Cyprinodontiformes
Dagger (mark)
A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used.
See Actinopterygii and Dagger (mark)
Danio
Danio is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae found in South and Southeast Asia, commonly kept in aquaria.
Dapediidae
Dapediidae is an extinct family of neopterygian ray-finned fish that lived from the Middle Triassic to Late Jurassic (Ladinian to Tithonian).
See Actinopterygii and Dapediidae
Deep sea
The deep sea is broadly defined as the ocean depth where light begins to fade, at an approximate depth of or the point of transition from continental shelves to continental slopes.
See Actinopterygii and Deep sea
Dentin
Dentin (American English) or dentine (British English) (substantia eburnea) is a calcified tissue of the body and, along with enamel, cementum, and pulp, is one of the four major components of teeth.
Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
See Actinopterygii and Devonian
Diplodus vulgaris
Diplodus vulgaris, the common two-banded sea bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies.
See Actinopterygii and Diplodus vulgaris
Divergent evolution
Divergent evolution or divergent selection is the accumulation of differences between closely related populations within a species, sometimes leading to speciation.
See Actinopterygii and Divergent evolution
Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.
See Actinopterygii and Dorsal fin
Dorsetichthys
Dorsetichthys is an extinct genus of stem-teleost ray-finned fish from the Early Jurassic period of Europe.
See Actinopterygii and Dorsetichthys
Dory (fish)
The common name dory (from the Middle English dorre, from the Middle French doree, lit. "gilded one") is shared (officially and colloquially) by members of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
See Actinopterygii and Dory (fish)
Eel
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species.
Electric eel
The electric eels are a genus, Electrophorus, of neotropical freshwater fish from South America in the family Gymnotidae.
See Actinopterygii and Electric eel
Electrophorus electricus
Electrophorus electricus is the best-known species of electric eel.
See Actinopterygii and Electrophorus electricus
Electroreception and electrogenesis
Electroreception and electrogenesis are the closely related biological abilities to perceive electrical stimuli and to generate electric fields.
See Actinopterygii and Electroreception and electrogenesis
Ellimmichthyiformes
The Ellimmichthyiformes, also known as double-armored herrings, are an extinct order of ray-finned fish known from the Early Cretaceous to the Oligocene.
See Actinopterygii and Ellimmichthyiformes
Elopidae
The Elopidae are a family of ray-finned fish containing a single living genus Elops.
See Actinopterygii and Elopidae
Elopiformes
The Elopiformes are the order of ray-finned fish including the tarpons, tenpounders, and ladyfish, as well as a number of extinct types.
See Actinopterygii and Elopiformes
Elopomorpha
The superorder Elopomorpha contains a variety of types of fishes that range from typical silvery-colored species, such as the tarpons and ladyfishes of the Elopiformes and the bonefishes of the Albuliformes, to the long and slender, smooth-bodied eels of the Anguilliformes.
See Actinopterygii and Elopomorpha
Endoskeleton
An endoskeleton (From Greek ἔνδον, éndon.
See Actinopterygii and Endoskeleton
Esociformes
The Esociformes is a small order of freshwater ray-finned fish, with two families, Umbridae and Esocidae.
See Actinopterygii and Esociformes
Esox
Esox is a genus of freshwater fish commonly known as pike or pickerel.
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
See Actinopterygii and Estonia
European conger
The European conger (Conger conger) is a species of conger of the family Congridae.
See Actinopterygii and European conger
Euteleostei
Euteleostei, whose members are known as euteleosts, is a clade of bony fishes within Teleostei that evolved some 240 million years ago, although the oldest known fossil remains are only from the Early Cretaceous.
See Actinopterygii and Euteleostei
Euteleostomi
Euteleostomi (Eu-teleostomi, where Eu- comes from Greek εὖ 'well, good' or Euteleostomes, also known as "bony vertebrates") is a successful clade that includes more than 90% of the living species of vertebrates. Actinopterygii and Euteleostomi are extant Silurian first appearances.
See Actinopterygii and Euteleostomi
Evolution of tetrapods
The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes.
See Actinopterygii and Evolution of tetrapods
Exaptation
Exaptation or co-option is a shift in the function of a trait during evolution.
See Actinopterygii and Exaptation
Exocoetus obtusirostris
Exocoetus obtusirostris, commonly known as the oceanic two-wing flyingfish or the blunt-snouted flyingfish, is a species of ray-finned fish native to the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic Ocean.
See Actinopterygii and Exocoetus obtusirostris
External fertilization
External fertilization is a mode of reproduction in which a male organism's sperm fertilizes a female organism's egg outside of the female's body.
See Actinopterygii and External fertilization
Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
See Actinopterygii and Extinction
Fangtooth
Fangtooths are beryciform fish of the family Anoplogastridae (sometimes spelled "Anoplogasteridae") that live in the deep sea.
See Actinopterygii and Fangtooth
Filefish
The filefish (Monacanthidae) are a diverse family of tropical to subtropical tetraodontiform marine fish, which are also known as foolfish, leatherjackets or shingles.
See Actinopterygii and Filefish
Filter feeder
Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.
See Actinopterygii and Filter feeder
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Fish fin
Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.
See Actinopterygii and Fish fin
Fish scale
A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish.
See Actinopterygii and Fish scale
FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish).
See Actinopterygii and FishBase
Flatfish
A flatfish is a member of the ray-finned demersal fish order Pleuronectiformes, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes.
See Actinopterygii and Flatfish
Flying fish
The Exocoetidae are a family of marine ray-finned fish in the order Beloniformes, known colloquially as flying fish or flying cod.
See Actinopterygii and Flying fish
Flying gurnard
The flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans), also known as the helmet gurnard, is a bottom-dwelling fish of tropical to warm temperate waters on both sides of the Atlantic.
See Actinopterygii and Flying gurnard
Foregut
The foregut in humans is the anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the distal esophagus to the first half of the duodenum, at the entrance of the bile duct.
See Actinopterygii and Foregut
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
See Actinopterygii and Fresh water
Gadiformes
Gadiformes, also called the Anacanthini, are an order of ray-finned fish that include the cod, hakes, pollock, haddock, burbot, rocklings and moras, many of which are food fish of major commercial value.
See Actinopterygii and Gadiformes
Galaxiidae
The Galaxiidae are a family of mostly small freshwater fish in the Southern Hemisphere.
See Actinopterygii and Galaxiidae
Gar
Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae.
Garfish
The garfish (Belone belone), also known as the garpike, needlefish or sea needle, is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Black, and Baltic Seas.
See Actinopterygii and Garfish
Gasteropelecidae
The freshwater hatchetfish are a family, Gasteropelecidae, of ray-finned fish from South and Central America.
See Actinopterygii and Gasteropelecidae
Gasterosteoidei
Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes the sticklebacks and relatives, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this suborder within the order Scorpaeniformes.
See Actinopterygii and Gasterosteoidei
Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
See Actinopterygii and Geologic time scale
Giant oarfish
The giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne) is a species of oarfish of the family Regalecidae.
See Actinopterygii and Giant oarfish
Ginglymodi
Ginglymodi is a clade of ray-finned fish containing modern-day gars (Lepisosteidae) & their extinct relatives (including the family Lepidotidae) in the order Lepisosteiformes, the extinct orders Semionotiformes and Kyphosichthyiformes, and various other extinct taxa.
See Actinopterygii and Ginglymodi
Gnathostomata
Gnathostomata (from Ancient Greek: γνάθος 'jaw' + στόμα 'mouth') are the jawed vertebrates.
See Actinopterygii and Gnathostomata
Gobiesocidae
Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the order Gobiesociformes.
See Actinopterygii and Gobiesocidae
Gobiidae
Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.
See Actinopterygii and Gobiidae
Gobiiformes
The Gobiiformes are an order of fish that includes the gobies and their relatives.
See Actinopterygii and Gobiiformes
Goldeye
The goldeye (Hiodon alosoides) is a freshwater fish found in Canada and the northern United States.
See Actinopterygii and Goldeye
Goldfish
The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes.
See Actinopterygii and Goldfish
Gonorynchiformes
The Gonorynchiformes are an order of ray-finned fish that includes the important food source, the milkfish (Chanos chanos, family Chanidae), and a number of lesser-known types, both marine and freshwater.
See Actinopterygii and Gonorynchiformes
Gonostoma
Gonostoma is a genus of bristlemouths.
See Actinopterygii and Gonostoma
Gonostomatidae
The Gonostomatidae are a family of mesopelagic marine fish, commonly named bristlemouths, lightfishes, or anglemouths.
See Actinopterygii and Gonostomatidae
Gourami
Gouramis, or gouramies, are a group of freshwater anabantiform fish that comprise the family Osphronemidae.
See Actinopterygii and Gourami
Guildayichthyidae
Guildayichthyidae is a prehistoric family of marine fish from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana.
See Actinopterygii and Guildayichthyidae
Gymnotiformes
The Gymnotiformes are an order of teleost bony fishes commonly known as Neotropical knifefish or South American knifefish.
See Actinopterygii and Gymnotiformes
Hagfish
Hagfish, of the class Myxini (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes, are eel-shaped jawless fish (occasionally called slime eels).
See Actinopterygii and Hagfish
Halecomorphi
Halecomorphi is a taxon of ray-finned bony fish in the clade Neopterygii.
See Actinopterygii and Halecomorphi
Halosaur
Halosaurs are eel-shaped fishes found only at great ocean depths.
See Actinopterygii and Halosaur
Hand fan
A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is a broad, flat surface that is waved back-and-forth to create an airflow.
See Actinopterygii and Hand fan
Herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
See Actinopterygii and Herring
Hiodontiformes
Hiodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fish consisting of the two living species of the mooneye family, Hiodontidae, and three extinct genera.
See Actinopterygii and Hiodontiformes
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
See Actinopterygii and Holocene
Holocentridae
Holocentridae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only family of the order Holocentriformes.
See Actinopterygii and Holocentridae
Holostei
Holostei is a group of ray-finned bony fish.
See Actinopterygii and Holostei
Humpback anglerfish
The humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) is a species of black seadevil in the family of Melanocetidae, which means "black whale" in Greek.
See Actinopterygii and Humpback anglerfish
Ichthyodectiformes
Ichthyodectiformes is an extinct order of marine stem-teleost ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Ichthyodectiformes
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species.
See Actinopterygii and Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Internal fertilization
Internal fertilization is the union of an egg and sperm cell during sexual reproduction inside the female body.
See Actinopterygii and Internal fertilization
Istiophoriformes
Istiophoriformes are an order of bony fish which is not fully recognized by some taxonomists, with some including the two extant families Xiphiidae and Istiophoridae, and others, including the family Sphyraenidae.
See Actinopterygii and Istiophoriformes
Jellynose fish
The jellynose fishes or tadpole fishes are the small order Ateleopodiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Jellynose fish
Joint
A joint or articulation (or articular surface) is the connection made between bones, ossicles, or other hard structures in the body which link an animal's skeletal system into a functional whole.
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
See Actinopterygii and Jurassic
Killifish
A killifish is any of various oviparous (egg-laying) cyprinodontiform fish, including families Aplocheilidae, Cyprinodontidae, Fundulidae, Nothobranchiidae, Profundulidae, Aphaniidae and Valenciidae.
See Actinopterygii and Killifish
Knifefish
Knifefish may refer to several knife-shaped fishes.
See Actinopterygii and Knifefish
Kurtiformes
The Kurtiformes consist of two extant families of ray-finned fish, the Indo-Pacific Kurtidae (consisting solely of two species in the genus Kurtus) and the much more diverse and widespread Apogonidae (the cardinalfishes).
See Actinopterygii and Kurtiformes
Kurtus
Kurtus is a genus of percomorph fishes, called the nurseryfishes, forehead brooders, or incubator fish, native to fresh, brackish and coastal marine waters ranging from India, through southeast Asia to New Guinea and northern Australia.
Labriformes
Labriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes which includes the wrasses, cales and parrotfishes, within the clade Percomorpha.
See Actinopterygii and Labriformes
Lamprey
Lampreys (sometimes inaccurately called lamprey eels) are a group of jawless fish comprising the order Petromyzontiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Lamprey
Lampriformes
Lampriformes is an order of ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Lampriformes
Lancetfish
Lancetfishes are large oceanic predatory fishes in the genus Alepisaurus ("scaleless lizard") in the monogeneric family Alepisauridae.
See Actinopterygii and Lancetfish
Lanternfish
Lanternfish (or myctophids, from the Greek μυκτήρ myktḗr, "nose" and ophis, "serpent") are small mesopelagic fish of the large family Myctophidae.
See Actinopterygii and Lanternfish
Leafy seadragon
The leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) or Glauert's seadragon, is a marine fish.
See Actinopterygii and Leafy seadragon
Leedsichthys
Leedsichthys is an extinct genus of pachycormid fish that lived in the oceans of the Middle to Late Jurassic.
See Actinopterygii and Leedsichthys
Lepidogalaxias
Lepidogalaxias salamandroides is a species of small freshwater fish of Western Australia.
See Actinopterygii and Lepidogalaxias
Lepisosteiformes
Lepisosteiformes is an order of ray-finned fish and the only living members of the clade Ginglymodi.
See Actinopterygii and Lepisosteiformes
Leptolepidae
Leptolepidae (also spelt as Leptolepididae) is an extinct family of herring-like stem-teleost fish found throughout the world during the Jurassic.
See Actinopterygii and Leptolepidae
Livebearers
Livebearers are fish that retain their eggs inside the body and give birth to live, free-swimming young.
See Actinopterygii and Livebearers
Loach
Loaches are fish of the superfamily Cobitoidea.
Ludlow Epoch
In the geological timescale, the Ludlow Epoch (from 427.4 ± 0.5 million years ago to 423.0 ± 2.3 million years ago) occurred during the Silurian Period, after the end of the Homerian Age.
See Actinopterygii and Ludlow Epoch
Luganoia
Luganoia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Anisian and Ladinian ages of the Middle Triassic epoch.
See Actinopterygii and Luganoia
Lung
The lungs are the central organs of the respiratory system in humans and some other animals, including tetrapods, some snails and a small number of fish.
Lungfish
Lungfish are freshwater vertebrates belonging to the class Dipnoi.
See Actinopterygii and Lungfish
Mackerel
Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae.
See Actinopterygii and Mackerel
Mahi-mahi
The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide.
See Actinopterygii and Mahi-mahi
Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Mangrove rivulus
The mangrove rivulus or mangrove killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus (syn. Rivulus marmoratus), is a species of killifish in the family Rivulidae.
See Actinopterygii and Mangrove rivulus
Marine hatchetfish
Marine hatchetfishes or deep-sea hatchetfishes are small deep-sea mesopelagic ray-finned fish of the stomiiform subfamily Sternoptychinae.
See Actinopterygii and Marine hatchetfish
Marlin
Marlins are fish from the family Istiophoridae, which includes 11 species.
McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
See Actinopterygii and McGraw Hill Education
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
See Actinopterygii and Mesozoic
Middle Triassic
In the geologic timescale, the Middle Triassic is the second of three epochs of the Triassic period or the middle of three series in which the Triassic system is divided in chronostratigraphy.
See Actinopterygii and Middle Triassic
Milkfish
The milkfish (Chanos chanos) is a widespread species of ray-finned fish found throughout the Indo-Pacific.
See Actinopterygii and Milkfish
Million years ago
Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.
See Actinopterygii and Million years ago
Minnow
Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the family Cyprinidae and in particular the subfamily Leuciscinae.
Mirror dory
The mirror dory (Zenopsis nebulosa) is a dory of the family Zeidae, found in the southern Pacific Ocean at depths of between 30 and 800 m. Its length is up to 70 cm.
See Actinopterygii and Mirror dory
Mojarra
The mojarras are a family, Gerreidae, of fish in the order Perciformes.
See Actinopterygii and Mojarra
Mola tecta
Mola tecta, the hoodwinker sunfish, belongs to the family Molidae and genus Mola.
See Actinopterygii and Mola tecta
Monocentridae
Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family Monocentridae.
See Actinopterygii and Monocentridae
Monocentris japonica
Monocentris japonica, the Japanese pineapplefish, is a pinecone fish of the family Monocentridae, found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific Oceans, at depths between 2 and 100 m and can be found on both rocky and coral reefs.
See Actinopterygii and Monocentris japonica
Mooneye
Hiodontidae, commonly called mooneyes, is a family of ray-finned fish with a single included genus Hiodon.
See Actinopterygii and Mooneye
Mormyridae
The Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are a superfamily of weakly electric fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa.
See Actinopterygii and Mormyridae
Mountain stream
A mountain stream is a brook or stream, usually with a steep gradient, flowing down a mountainside.
See Actinopterygii and Mountain stream
Mullet (fish)
The mullets or grey mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and some species in fresh water.
See Actinopterygii and Mullet (fish)
Myctophiformes
The Myctophiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes consisting of two families of deep-sea marine fish, most notably the highly abundant lanternfishes (Myctophidae).
See Actinopterygii and Myctophiformes
Myripristinae
Myripristinae is a subfamily of the ray-finned fish family Holocentridae.
See Actinopterygii and Myripristinae
Needlefish
Needlefish (family Belonidae) or long toms are piscivorous fishes primarily associated with very shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea.
See Actinopterygii and Needlefish
Nekton
Nekton or necton (from the) refers to aquatic organisms that can actively and persistently propel themselves (i.e. swim) through a water column.
Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
See Actinopterygii and Neontology
Neopterygii
Neopterygii (from Greek νέος neos 'new' and πτέρυξ pteryx 'fin') is a subclass of ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii). Actinopterygii and Neopterygii are ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Neopterygii
Neoteleostei
The Neoteleostei is a large clade of bony fish mostly consisting of marine clades.
See Actinopterygii and Neoteleostei
Northern pike
The northern pike (Esox lucius) is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (pikes).
See Actinopterygii and Northern pike
Notacanthiformes
The Notacanthiformes are an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes, consisting of the families Halosauridae and Notacanthidae (spiny eels).
See Actinopterygii and Notacanthiformes
Oarfish
Oarfish are large, greatly elongated, pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the small family Regalecidae.
See Actinopterygii and Oarfish
Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
Ocean sunfish
The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola mola) is one of the largest bony fish in the world.
See Actinopterygii and Ocean sunfish
Ogcocephalidae
Ogcocephalidae is a family of anglerfish specifically adapted for a benthic lifestyle of crawling about on the seafloor.
See Actinopterygii and Ogcocephalidae
Ogcocephalus notatus
Ogcocephalus notatus, the marked batfish, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep sea batfishes.
See Actinopterygii and Ogcocephalus notatus
Ontogeny
Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult.
See Actinopterygii and Ontogeny
Opah
Opahs, also commonly known as moonfish, sunfish (not to be confused with Molidae), kingfish, and redfin ocean pan are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fishes comprising the small family Lampridae (also spelled Lamprididae).
Ophidiiformes
Ophidiiformes is an order of ray-finned fish that includes the cusk-eels (family Ophidiidae), pearlfishes (family Carapidae), viviparous brotulas (family Bythitidae), and others.
See Actinopterygii and Ophidiiformes
Osmeriformes
The Osmeriformes are an order of ray-finned fish that includes the true or freshwater smelts and allies, such as the galaxiids and noodlefishes; they are also collectively called osmeriforms.
See Actinopterygii and Osmeriformes
Ossification
Ossification (also called osteogenesis or bone mineralization) in bone remodeling is the process of laying down new bone material by cells named osteoblasts.
See Actinopterygii and Ossification
Ostariophysi
Ostariophysi is the second-largest superorder of fish.
See Actinopterygii and Ostariophysi
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. Actinopterygii and Osteichthyes are extant Silurian first appearances.
See Actinopterygii and Osteichthyes
Osteoglossiformes
Osteoglossiformes (Greek: "bony tongues") is a relatively primitive order of ray-finned fish that contains two sub-orders, the Osteoglossoidei and the Notopteroidei.
See Actinopterygii and Osteoglossiformes
Osteoglossomorpha
Osteoglossomorpha is a group of bony fish in the Teleostei.
See Actinopterygii and Osteoglossomorpha
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae or Ostraciontidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes.
See Actinopterygii and Ostraciidae
Otocephala
Otocephala is a clade of ray-finned fishes within the infraclass Teleostei that evolved some 230 million years ago.
See Actinopterygii and Otocephala
Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (known as laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings known as hatchlings with little or no embryonic development within the mother.
See Actinopterygii and Oviparity
Ovoviviparity
Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, ovivipary, or aplacental viviparity is a term used as a "bridging" form of reproduction between egg-laying oviparous and live-bearing viviparous reproduction.
See Actinopterygii and Ovoviviparity
Pachycormiformes
Pachycormiformes is an extinct order of marine ray-finned fish known from the Early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous.
See Actinopterygii and Pachycormiformes
Paddlefish
Paddlefish (family Polyodontidae) are a family of ray-finned fish belonging to order Acipenseriformes, and one of two living groups of the order alongside sturgeons (Acipenseridae).
See Actinopterygii and Paddlefish
Paedocypris
Paedocypris is a genus of tiny cyprinid fish found in swamps and streams on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Bintan.
See Actinopterygii and Paedocypris
Palaeonisciformes
The Palaeonisciformes, commonly known as "palaeoniscoids" (also spelled "paleoniscoid", or alternatively "paleoniscids") are an extinct grouping of primitive ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii), spanning from the Silurian/Devonian to the Cretaceous.
See Actinopterygii and Palaeonisciformes
Paleopolyploidy
Paleopolyploidy is the result of genome duplications which occurred at least several million years ago (MYA).
See Actinopterygii and Paleopolyploidy
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
See Actinopterygii and Paleozoic
Paracanthopterygii
Paracanthopterygii is a superorder of fishes.
See Actinopterygii and Paracanthopterygii
Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
See Actinopterygii and Paraphyly
Parasemionotiformes
Parasemionotiformes is an extinct order of neopterygian ray-finned fish that existed globally during the Triassic period.
See Actinopterygii and Parasemionotiformes
Parrotfish
Parrotfish are a group of fish species traditionally regarded as a family (Scaridae), but now often treated as a subfamily (Scarinae) or tribe (Scarini) of the wrasses (Labridae).
See Actinopterygii and Parrotfish
Peacock flounder
The peacock flounder (Bothus mancus), also known as the flowery flounder, is a species of fish in the family Bothidae (lefteye flounders).
See Actinopterygii and Peacock flounder
Pearlfish
Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae.
See Actinopterygii and Pearlfish
Pegasidae
The seamoths make up a family of fishes, the Pegasidae, within the order Syngnathiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Pegasidae
Peltopleuriformes
Peltopleuriformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Peltopleuriformes
Pelvic fin
Pelvic fins or ventral fins are paired fins located on the ventral (belly) surface of fish, and are the lower of the only two sets of paired fins (the other being the laterally positioned pectoral fins).
See Actinopterygii and Pelvic fin
Pencil fish
Nannostomus (from the Greek nanos.
See Actinopterygii and Pencil fish
Perciformes
Perciformes, also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha.
See Actinopterygii and Perciformes
Percomorpha
Percomorpha is a large clade of ray-finned fish with more than 17 000 known species that includes the tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perches, anglerfish, and pufferfish.
See Actinopterygii and Percomorpha
Percopsiformes
The Percopsiformes are a small order of freshwater teleost fishes measuring less than 20 cm in length, comprising the trout-perch and its allies.
See Actinopterygii and Percopsiformes
Percopsis omiscomaycus
Percopsis omiscomaycus, also known as the trout-perch, the grounder or the sand minnow, is one of two species in the family Percopsidae.
See Actinopterygii and Percopsis omiscomaycus
Perleidiformes
Perleidiformes are an extinct order of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Triassic period Although numerous Triassic taxa have been referred to Perleidiformes, which ones should be included for it to form a monophyletic group is a matter of ongoing scientific debate.
See Actinopterygii and Perleidiformes
Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
See Actinopterygii and Permian
Pholidichthys leucotaenia
Pholidichthys leucotaenia, commonly known as the convict blenny/goby or the engineer blenny/goby, is a marine fish from the west-central Pacific Ocean.
See Actinopterygii and Pholidichthys leucotaenia
Pholidophorus
Pholidophorus (from φολῐ́ς, 'horny scale' and φέρω, 'to bear') is an extinct genus of stem-teleost fish.
See Actinopterygii and Pholidophorus
Pholidopleuridae
Pholidopleuriformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish containing a single family, Pholidopleuridae.
See Actinopterygii and Pholidopleuridae
Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes
The phylogenetic classification of bony fishes is a phylogenetic classification of bony fishes and is based on phylogenies inferred using molecular and genomic data for nearly 2000 fishes.
See Actinopterygii and Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes
Piaractus mesopotamicus
Piaractus mesopotamicus, the small-scaled pacu, Paraná River pacu or simply pacu (a name shared with other species), is a South American ray-finned fish that is native to the Paraguay-Paraná River basin,Nico, L.; and B. Loftus (7 October 2012).
See Actinopterygii and Piaractus mesopotamicus
Pipefish
Pipefishes or pipe-fishes (Syngnathinae) are a subfamily of small fishes, which, together with the seahorses and seadragons (Phycodurus and Phyllopteryx), form the family Syngnathidae.
See Actinopterygii and Pipefish
Piranha
A piranha or piraña is any of a number of freshwater fish species in the family Serrasalmidae, or the subfamily Serrasalminae within the tetra family, Characidae in order Characiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Piranha
Platysiagidae
Platysiagidae is an extinct family of stem-neopterygian ray-finned fish which lived from the Early Triassic to the Early Jurassic.
See Actinopterygii and Platysiagidae
Pompano
Pompanos are marine fish in the genus Trachinotus in the family Carangidae (better known as "slabs").
See Actinopterygii and Pompano
Prohalecites
Prohalecites is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Ladinian and possibly Carnian (Triassic) of Italy.
See Actinopterygii and Prohalecites
Protacanthopterygii
Protacanthopterygii is a ray-finned fish taxon ranked as a superorder of the infraclass Teleostei.
See Actinopterygii and Protacanthopterygii
Pterois
Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific.
See Actinopterygii and Pterois
Pterois antennata
Pterois antennata, the spotfin lionfish, banded lionfish, broadbarred lionfish, broadbarred firefish, raggedfinned firefish, raggedfinned scorpionfish or roughscaled lionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes.
See Actinopterygii and Pterois antennata
Pterois sphex
Pterois sphex, the Hawaiian turkeyfish or Hawaiian lionfish is a species of ray-finned fish with venomous spines belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and lionfishes.
See Actinopterygii and Pterois sphex
Ptycholepiformes
Ptycholepiformes are an extinct order of prehistoric ray-finned fish that existed during the Triassic period and the Early Jurassic epoch.
See Actinopterygii and Ptycholepiformes
Pycnodontiformes
Pycnodontiformes is an extinct order of primarily marine bony fish.
See Actinopterygii and Pycnodontiformes
Queen angelfish
The queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris), also known as the blue angelfish, golden angelfish, or yellow angelfish, is a species of marine angelfish found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
See Actinopterygii and Queen angelfish
Rainbowfish
Rainbowfishes are small, colourful freshwater fishes belonging to the family Melanotaeniidae, found in northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea (including islands in Cenderawasih Bay and Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia), Sulawesi and Madagascar.
See Actinopterygii and Rainbowfish
Rasbora
Rasbora is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae.
See Actinopterygii and Rasbora
Red-bellied piranha
The red-bellied piranha, also known as the red piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri), is a type of piranha native to South America, found in the Amazon, Paraguay, Paraná and Essequibo basins, as well as coastal rivers of northeastern Brazil.
See Actinopterygii and Red-bellied piranha
Redfieldiiformes
Redfieldiiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish (actinopterygians) which lived from the Early Triassic to Early Jurassic.
See Actinopterygii and Redfieldiiformes
Reedfish
The reedfish, ropefish (more commonly used in the United States), or snakefish, Erpetoichthys calabaricus, is a species of fish in the family Polypteridae alongside the bichirs.
See Actinopterygii and Reedfish
Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
See Actinopterygii and Reptile
Rhipidistia
Rhipidistia, also known as Dipnotetrapodomorpha, is a clade of lobe-finned fishes which includes the tetrapods and lungfishes.
See Actinopterygii and Rhipidistia
Ribbonfish
The ribbonfish are any lampriform fishes in the family Trachipteridae.
See Actinopterygii and Ribbonfish
Ricefish
The ricefishes are a family (Adrianichthyidae) of small ray-finned fish that are found in fresh and brackish waters from India to Japan and out into the Malay Archipelago, most notably Sulawesi (where the Lake Poso and Lore Lindu species are known as buntingi).
See Actinopterygii and Ricefish
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Saccopharynx ampullaceus
Saccopharynx ampullaceus, referred to as the gulper eel, gulper, taillight gulper or pelican-fish, is an ocean-dwelling eel found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
See Actinopterygii and Saccopharynx ampullaceus
Salminus brasiliensis
Salminus brasiliensis (dourado, dorado, golden dorado, river tiger or jaw characin) is a large, predatory characiform freshwater fish found in central and east-central South America.
See Actinopterygii and Salminus brasiliensis
Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
Salmonidae
Salmonidae (lit. "salmon-like") is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes (lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids".
See Actinopterygii and Salmonidae
Sarcopterygii
Sarcopterygii — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii — is a clade (traditionally a class or subclass) including both a group of bony fish commonly referred to as lobe-finned fish, and tetrapods. Actinopterygii and Sarcopterygii are extant Silurian first appearances, fish classes and Silurian bony fish.
See Actinopterygii and Sarcopterygii
Saurichthyiformes
Saurichthyiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish which existed in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, during the late Permian to early Middle Jurassic.
See Actinopterygii and Saurichthyiformes
Saurichthys
Saurichthys (from σαῦρος, 'lizard' and ἰχθῦς 'fish') is an extinct genus of predatory ray-finned fish from the Triassic Period.
See Actinopterygii and Saurichthys
Sauropsida
Sauropsida (Greek for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to also include extinct stem-group relatives of modern reptiles and birds (which, as theropod dinosaurs, are nested within reptiles as more closely related to crocodilians than to lizards or turtles).
See Actinopterygii and Sauropsida
Scale (zoology)
In zoology, a scale (lepís; squāma) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection.
See Actinopterygii and Scale (zoology)
Scombriformes
Scombriformes is an order of bony fish containing nine families which were classified under the suborders Scombroidei and Stromateoidei, of the wider grouping known as Perciformes, Fishes of the World, 5th ed.
See Actinopterygii and Scombriformes
Scorpaeniformes
The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, including the lionfishes and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei.
See Actinopterygii and Scorpaeniformes
Seahorse
A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus.
See Actinopterygii and Seahorse
Secondarily aquatic tetrapods
Several groups of tetrapods have undergone secondary aquatic adaptation, an evolutionary transition from being purely terrestrial to living at least part of the time in water.
See Actinopterygii and Secondarily aquatic tetrapods
Semionotiformes
Semionotiformes is an order of ray-finned fish known from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).
See Actinopterygii and Semionotiformes
Sequential hermaphroditism
Sequential hermaphroditism (called dichogamy in botany) is one of the two types of hermaphroditism, the other type being simultaneous hermaphroditism.
See Actinopterygii and Sequential hermaphroditism
Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Actinopterygii and Shark are extant Silurian first appearances.
Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
See Actinopterygii and Silurian
Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
See Actinopterygii and Sister group
Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Slender-spined porcupine fish
The slender-spined porcupine fish or globefish (Diodon nicthemerus) is a porcupinefish of the family Diodontidae, found in the waters of southern Australia, as far north as Port Jackson to Geraldton, Western Australia.
See Actinopterygii and Slender-spined porcupine fish
Smelt (fish)
Smelts are a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, as well as rivers, streams and lakes in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia.
See Actinopterygii and Smelt (fish)
Snakehead (fish)
The snakeheads are members of the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae, native to parts of Africa and Asia.
See Actinopterygii and Snakehead (fish)
Sockeye salmon
The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it.
See Actinopterygii and Sockeye salmon
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
See Actinopterygii and Species
Spine (zoology)
In a zoological context, spines are hard, needle-like anatomical structures found in both vertebrate and invertebrate species.
See Actinopterygii and Spine (zoology)
Spiny eel
The name spiny eel is used to describe members of two different families of fish: the freshwater Mastacembelidae of Asia and Africa, and the marine (and generally deep sea) Notacanthidae.
See Actinopterygii and Spiny eel
Spiracle (vertebrates)
Spiracles are openings on the surface of some animals, which usually lead to respiratory systems.
See Actinopterygii and Spiracle (vertebrates)
Spotted gar
The spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) is a freshwater fish native to North America that has an abundance of dark spots on its head, fins, and dart-like body.
See Actinopterygii and Spotted gar
Stephanoberyciformes
The Stephanoberyciformes are an order of marine ray-finned fishes, consisting of about 68 species, the majority (61) of which belong to the ridgehead family (Melamphaidae).
See Actinopterygii and Stephanoberyciformes
Stiassnyiformes
Stiassnyiformes is an order of bony fish (Teleostei) proposed in 2009.
See Actinopterygii and Stiassnyiformes
Stickleback
The sticklebacks are a family of ray-finned fishes, the Gasterosteidae which have a Holarctic distribution in fresh, brackish and marine waters.
See Actinopterygii and Stickleback
Stomiiformes
Stomiiformes is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology.
See Actinopterygii and Stomiiformes
Striped marlin
The striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax, also Kajikia audax) is a species of marlin found globally in tropical to temperate oceans not far from the surface.
See Actinopterygii and Striped marlin
Sturgeon
Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.
See Actinopterygii and Sturgeon
Stylephorus
Stylephorus chordatus, the tube-eye or thread-tail, is a deep-sea fish, the only species in the genus Stylephorus and family Stylephoridae.
See Actinopterygii and Stylephorus
Subphylum
In zoological nomenclature, a subphylum is a taxonomic rank below the rank of phylum.
See Actinopterygii and Subphylum
Subterranean river
A subterranean river (also known as an underground river) is a river or watercourse that runs wholly or partly beneath the ground, one where the riverbed does not represent the surface of the Earth.
See Actinopterygii and Subterranean river
Swamp eel
The swamp eels (also written "swamp-eels") are a family (Synbranchidae) of freshwater eel-like fishes of the tropics and subtropics.
See Actinopterygii and Swamp eel
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Swim bladder
The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to expend energy in swimming.
See Actinopterygii and Swim bladder
Swordfish
The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.
See Actinopterygii and Swordfish
Synbranchiformes
Synbranchiformes, often called swamp eels, though that name can also refer specifically to Synbranchidae, is an order of ray-finned fishes that are eel-like but have spiny rays, indicating that they belong to the superorder Acanthopterygii.
See Actinopterygii and Synbranchiformes
Syngnathidae
The Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons (Phycodurus and Phyllopteryx).
See Actinopterygii and Syngnathidae
Syngnathiformes
The Syngnathiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the leafy seadragons, sea moths, trumpetfishes and seahorses, among others.
See Actinopterygii and Syngnathiformes
Tarpon
Tarpon are fish of the genus Megalops.
Tarrasiiformes
Tarasiiformes is an extinct order of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See Actinopterygii and Tarrasiiformes
Taxonomic rank
In biology, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy.
See Actinopterygii and Taxonomic rank
Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.
See Actinopterygii and Taxonomy (biology)
Teleost
Teleostei (Greek teleios "complete" + osteon "bone"), members of which are known as teleosts, is, by far, the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, and contains 96% of all extant species of fish.
See Actinopterygii and Teleost
Teleosteomorpha
Teleosteomorpha is a clade of ray-finned fishes containing all teleost fish and their closest extinct relatives.
See Actinopterygii and Teleosteomorpha
Tetra
Tetra is the common name of many small freshwater characiform fishes.
Tetraodontidae
Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.
See Actinopterygii and Tetraodontidae
Tetraodontiformes
The Tetraodontiformes are an order of highly derived ray-finned fish, also called the Plectognathi.
See Actinopterygii and Tetraodontiformes
Tetrapod
A tetrapod is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the superclass Tetrapoda.
See Actinopterygii and Tetrapod
Thornback cowfish
The thornback cowfish (Lactoria fornasini), is a poisonous species of boxfish found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Bass Islands (French Polynesia).
See Actinopterygii and Thornback cowfish
Thrust-to-weight ratio
Thrust-to-weight ratio is a dimensionless ratio of thrust to weight of a rocket, jet engine, propeller engine, or a vehicle propelled by such an engine that is an indicator of the performance of the engine or vehicle.
See Actinopterygii and Thrust-to-weight ratio
Tooth enamel
Tooth enamel is one of the four major tissues that make up the tooth in humans and many animals, including some species of fish.
See Actinopterygii and Tooth enamel
Trachurus
Jack mackerels or saurels are marine fish in the genus Trachurus of the family Carangidae.
See Actinopterygii and Trachurus
Triassic
The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.
See Actinopterygii and Triassic
Trout
Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.
Tselfatiiformes
Tselfatiiformes is an extinct order of bony fishes from the infraclass Teleostei.
See Actinopterygii and Tselfatiiformes
Tuna
A tuna (tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family.
Vertebra
Each vertebra (vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column or spine, of vertebrates.
See Actinopterygii and Vertebra
Vertebrate
Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
See Actinopterygii and Vertebrate
Viviparity
In animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the mother, with the maternal circulation providing for the metabolic needs of the embryo's development, until the mother gives birth to a fully or partially developed juvenile that is at least metabolically independent.
See Actinopterygii and Viviparity
Wels catfish
The wels catfish (or; Silurus glanis), also called sheatfish or just wels, is a large species of catfish native to wide areas of central, southern, and eastern Europe, in the basins of the Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas.
See Actinopterygii and Wels catfish
Wetted area
In fluid dynamics, the wetted area is the surface area that interacts with the working fluid or gas.
See Actinopterygii and Wetted area
Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
See Actinopterygii and Wiley (publisher)
Wrasse
The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored.
Yellowfin tuna
The yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) is a species of tuna found in pelagic waters of tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.
See Actinopterygii and Yellowfin tuna
Zeiformes
The Zeiformes are a small order of exclusively marine ray-finned fishes most notable for the dories, a group of common food fish.
See Actinopterygii and Zeiformes
See also
Extant Silurian first appearances
- Actinopterygii
- Ammodiscus
- Arachnid
- Capulus
- Centipede
- Chara (alga)
- Chondrichthyes
- Chondrostei
- Cylindroleberididae
- Dentalium (genus)
- Euteleostomi
- Leech
- Lucinidae
- Lycophyte
- Millipede
- Myriapoda
- Osteichthyes
- Pseudorthocerida
- Sarcopterygii
- Scorpion
- Shark
- Valdiviathyris
- Vascular plant
- Xiphosura
Fish classes
- Actinopterygii
- Chondrichthyes
- Cladistic classification of Sarcopterygii
- Sarcopterygii
Ray-finned fish
- Actinopterygii
- Chondrostei
- Cladistia
- Neopterygii
- Scarus spinus
- Stylophthalmine trait
Silurian bony fish
- Actinopterygii
- Andreolepis
- Psarolepis
- Sarcopterygii
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii
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