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Actinopterygii. Actinopterygii (/ ˌæktɪnɒptəˈrɪdʒiaɪ /; from actino- 'having rays' and Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux) 'wing, fins'), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish [ 2 ] that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. [ 3 ]
Acanthopterygii. Acanthopterygii (meaning "spiny finned one") is a superorder of bony fishes in the class Actinopterygii. Members of this superorder are sometimes called ray-finned fishes for the characteristic sharp, bony rays in their fins; however this name is often given to the class Actinopterygii as a whole.
Holacanthus diacanthus (Boddaert, 1772) The royal angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus), or regal angelfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae, and the monotypic genus Pygoplites. It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans. It can grow as long as 25 cm (9.8 in).
All modern lungfish show significant reductions and fusions of the bones of the skull roof, and the specific bones of the skull roof show no homology to the skull roof bones of ray-finned fishes or tetrapods. During the breeding season, the South American lungfish develops a pair of feathery appendages that are actually highly modified pelvic ...
The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels.Except from the genus Neoanguilla, with the only known species Neoanguilla nepalensis from Nepal, [5] all the extant species and six subspecies in this family are in the genus Anguilla, and are elongated fish of snake-like bodies, with long dorsal, caudal and anal fins forming a continuous fringe.
Fish portal; Actinopteri (/ æ k t ɪ ˈ n ɒ p t ə r aɪ /) is the sister group of Cladistia in the class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish).. Dating back to the Permian period, the Actinopteri comprise the Chondrostei (sturgeons and paddlefish), the Holostei (bowfins and gars), and the teleosts; in other words, all extant ray-finned fish other than the bichirs.
Habitat and biology. The French angelfish is found at depths between 3 and 100 m (9.8 and 328.1 ft). It is common on rocky and coral reefs where it is normally encountered in pairs, frequently in the vicinity of sea fans. Its diet comprises sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians, hydroids, coral [5] and tunicates.
Cypriniformes. Cypriniformes / sɪˈprɪnɪfɔːrmiːz / is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid (carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, gobies, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others). Cypriniformes is an “order-within-an-order”, placed under the superorder Ostariophysi —which is also ...