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bony fish

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Osteichthyes

the ACTINOPTERYGII and CHOENICHTHYES, classes of fish that have a bony skeleton (as compared with cartilage in ELASMOBRANCH fish).
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72 meter caught off the Japanese coast (Kamogawa, Chiba) in 1996 as the heaviest bony fish ever recorded, and not, as originally thought, Mola mola ocean sunfish species.
Japanese researchers discover 'world's heaviest bony fish'
Grey mullet is the most abundant species and contributes in 70% of the total bony fish fishery in the Caspian Sea.
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In 2013, Ahlberg and colleagues found a new clue in a 419-million-year-old fossil that had the body of a placoderm but the three-part jaw of a bony fish.
Fossil find revises history of jaws: placoderms may be ancestors of bony fish, land vertebrates
It was assumed placoderms died out and a different group evolved into bony fish.
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Lapillus otoliths of the Cathorops spixii (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) and Genidens genidens (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii-Ariidae)/Otolito lapillus de Cathorops spixii (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) e Genidens genidens (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii-Ariidae)
Adjusted for body size, its bite force edges out the black piranha as the strongest known for a bony fish.
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Gardiner also studies the sensory systems of bony fish and sea turtles.
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The best sources are dairy produce as well as bony fish such as sardines.
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Fishermen intentionally or unintentionally kill thousands of sea turtles, sharks, rays, and bony fish each year.
An underwater Serengeti: scientists and recreational scuba divers are working to protect the spectacular marine life in the waters around Costa Rica's Cocos Island
Chapters on Simple Animals, Cnidarians, Flatworms and Roundworms, Segmented Worms, Mollusks, Arachnids, Crustaceans, Centipedes and Millipedes, Insects, Echinoderms, Chordates, Cartilaginous Fish, Bony Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals are included, along with a Glossary and index.
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The phylum vertebrata was represented only by bony fish (Pisce), Ilisha africana and E.
Growth Patterns, Diet Composition and Sex Ratios in Giant African Threadfin, Polydactylus quadrifilis from Ologe Lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria
Tuna and swordfish, the most magnificent bony fish in the sea get a special mention along with the poor critically endangered mega sharks so often bycatch in tuna trawls.
The End of the Line: How Over-fishing is Changing the World & What We Eat

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