English > acanthopterygian: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays. |
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Synonym | spiny-finned fish |
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Member of | Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii | teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays |
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Narrower | anomalops, flashlight fish | fish having a luminous organ beneath eye |
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barracuda | Any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth |
batfish | bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins |
boarfish, Capros aper | fish with a projecting snout |
boarfish | fish with large eyes and long snouts |
dory | marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters |
dragonet | small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers |
flashlight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratus | fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye |
flatfish | Any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side |
frogfish | fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout |
goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus | fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |
percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
plectognath, plectognath fish | Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines |
remora, suckerfish, sucking fish | marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects |
sand lance, sand launce, sand eel, launce | Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches |
sargassum fish | small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum |
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish | fishes having the head armored with bony plates |
silversides, silverside | small fishes having a silver stripe along each side |
squirrelfish | Very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs |
stickleback, prickleback | small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship |
toadfish, Opsanus tau | bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth |
Broader | teleost fish, teleost, teleostan | A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei |
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Opposite | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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Spanish | acantopterigio |
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Catalan | acantopterigi |
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