单词 | teleost fish |
释义 | teleost fish (once / 2954828 pages) n WORD FAMILY teleost fish: teleost fishes USAGE EXAMPLESDespite duplicating their genome about 160 million years ago, teleost fish hewed to a few conventional body types for their first 150 million years. Science Magazine(Sep 26, 2016) All other sequenced teleost fish exhibit a much lower repeat content, with an average of less than 30%. Nature(Apr 24, 2013) They found impressive similarities in the brains of all 88 vertebrates they studied, which included mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and teleost fish. Scientific American(May 31, 2012) n a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei Syn|Hypo|Hyper teleost, teleostan malacopterygian, soft-finned fish any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii cornetfishslender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales needlefish, pipefishfish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates bellows fish, snipefishsmall bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth shrimp-fish, shrimpfishslender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates Aulostomus maculatus, trumpetfishtropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down billfish, gar, needlefishelongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters flying fishtropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight halfbeaktropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw Scomberesox saurus, billfish, sauryslender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fisha teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays sweeperlittle-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body ganoid, ganoid fishprimitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering Ostariophysi, order Ostariophysiin some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes cypriniform fisha soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes squirrelfishvery small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark anomalops, flashlight fishfish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico Photoblepharon palpebratus, flashlight fishfish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye dorymarine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters Capros aper, boarfishfish with a projecting snout boarfishfish with large eyes and long snouts prickleback, sticklebacksmall (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research Syngnathus hildebrandi, dwarf pipefishsmall (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast Cosmocampus profundus, deepwater pipefisha fish 8 inches long; found from eastern Florida to western Caribbean sea horse, seahorsesmall fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position catfish, siluriform fishany of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth gadoid, gadoid fisha soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae eelvoracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, beaked salmon, sandfishfish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand clupeid, clupeid fishany of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas anchovysmall herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide salmonidsoft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters whitefishsilvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere smeltsmall trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters Tarpon atlanticus, tarponlarge silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida Albula vulpes, bonefishslender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons argentineany of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes lanternfishsmall fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night lizardfish, snake-fish, snakefishtropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide greeneyebottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster lancet fish, lancetfish, wolffishlarge elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail handsaw fisha soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus Lampris regius, moonfish, opahlarge elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean Lampris guttatus, New World opahfrom Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico ribbonfishmarine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body Regalecus glesne, king of the herring, oarfish, ribbonfishthin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin batfishbottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins Lophius Americanus, allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lotte, monkfishfishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey Opsanus tau, toadfishbottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth frogfishfish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout sargassum fishsmall fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum timucufound in warm waters of western Atlantic monoplane flying fish, two-wing flying fishhaving only pectoral fins enlarged biplane flying fish, four-wing flying fishhaving both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged percoid, percoid fish, percoideanany of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes remora, suckerfish, sucking fishmarine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects silverside, silversidessmall fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States barracudaany voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth launce, sand eel, sand lance, sand launcevery small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches dragonetsmall often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish, grindleprimitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America Polyodon spathula, duckbill, paddlefishprimitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout Chinese paddlefish, Psephurus gladisfish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish sturgeonlarge primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone Lepisosteus osseus, billfish, gar, garfish, garpikeprimitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fishfishes having the head armored with bony plates plectognath, plectognath fishtropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines flatfishany 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 bony fish any fish of the class Osteichthyes |
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