English > malacopterygian: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii. |
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| Synonym | soft-finned fish |
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| Member of | Malacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii | An extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays |
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| Members | whitebait | The edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts |
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| Narrower | New World opah, Lampris guttatus | From Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico |
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| Ostariophysi, order Ostariophysi | In some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes |
| anchovy | small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste |
| argentine | Any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes |
| beaked salmon, sandfish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus | fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand |
| bonefish, Albula vulpes | slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons |
| catfish, siluriform fish | Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth |
| clupeid fish, clupeid | Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas |
| cypriniform fish | A soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes |
| eel | voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins |
| gadoid, gadoid fish | A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae |
| greeneye | bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster |
| handsaw fish | A soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus |
| lancetfish, lancet fish, wolffish | large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail |
| lanternfish | small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side |
| lizardfish, snakefish, snake-fish | Tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads |
| oarfish, king of the herring, ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne | Thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin |
| opah, moonfish, Lampris regius | large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean |
| ribbonfish | marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body |
| salmonid | soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters |
| smelt | small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters |
| tarpon, Tarpon atlanticus | large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida |
| whitefish | silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere |
| Broader | teleost fish, teleost, teleostan | A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei |
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| Opposite | spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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| Spanish | malacopterigio |
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| Catalan | malacopterigi |
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