English > teleostan: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
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| Synonyms | teleost fish, teleost |
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| Member of | Teleostei, subclass Teleostei | large diverse group of bony fishes |
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| Narrower | cornetfish | slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales |
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| flying fish | Tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight |
| ganoid, ganoid fish | Primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering |
| halfbeak | Tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw |
| needlefish, gar, billfish | elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws |
| pipefish, needlefish | fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates |
| saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus | slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters |
| shrimpfish, shrimp-fish | slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates |
| snipefish, bellows fish | small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth |
| soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
| spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
| sweeper | little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body |
| trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus | Tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout |
| Broader | bony fish | Any fish of the class Osteichthyes |
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| Spanish | pez teleósteo, teleostan, teleostei, teleósteo, teleósteos |
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| Catalan | teleostan, teleosti, teleostis |
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