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SUBCLASS TELEOSTEI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species
Synonyms:
subclass Teleostei; Teleostei
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("subclass Teleostei" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "subclass Teleostei"):
Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)
order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)
leptocephalus (slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes)
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Alepisaurus; genus Alepisaurus (slender scaleless predaceous tropical deep-sea fishes)
Order Osteoglossiformes; Osteoglossiformes (teleost fish with bony tongues)
order Synentognathi; Synentognathi (order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks)
Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)
family Pempheridae; Pempheridae (sweepers)
Ganoidei; order Ganoidei (a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales)
Holonyms ("subclass Teleostei" is a member of...):
class Osteichthyes; Osteichthyes (a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage)
