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- Dictionarybony fish
noun
- 1. a fish of a large class distinguished by a skeleton of bone, and comprising the majority of modern fishes.
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- Osteichthyes
Diverse group of fish with skeletons of bone rather than cartilage
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. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) and the extinct placoderms and acanthodians, which have endoskeletons primarily composed of cartilage. The vast majority of extant fish are mem... Wikipedia
