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Osteichthyes

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Osteichthyes [‚ä·stē′ik·thē‚ēz]
(vertebrate zoology)
The bony fishes, a class of fishlike vertebrates distinguished by having a bony skeleton, a swim bladder, a true gill cover, and mesodermal ganoid, cycloid, or ctenoid scales.


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Introdução A espécie Rhamdia quelen pertence à classe Osteichthyes, série Teleostei, ordem Siluriforme, família Heptapteridae, gênero Rhamdia (Nakatani et al.
00 Hardcover QL618 Diogo (anthropology, George Washington University) presents a cladistic analysis of osteichthyan higher-level interrelationships based on a phylogenetic comparison of 356 characters in 80 extent and fossil terminal taxa representing all major groups of Osteichthyes.
1 and 2) had diets that consisted (62% and 80%, respectively) of adult Osteichthyes (Clupeidae and unidentifiable fish tissue), and to a lesser extent of larval-juvenile Osteichthyes (for adult coho salmon) and euphausiids (for blue shark).
 
 
 
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