acanthopterygian

Noun
  1. A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays (synset 102554802)
    is a type of: teleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei
    subtypes:
    • squirrelfish - very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark
    • anomalops, flashlight fish - fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico
    • flashlight fish, photoblepharon palpebratus - fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye
    • dory - marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
    • boarfish, capros aper - fish with a projecting snout
    • boarfish - fish with large eyes and long snouts
    • prickleback, stickleback - small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
    • batfish - bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
    • allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lophius americanus, lotte, monkfish - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
    • opsanus tau, toadfish - bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth
    • frogfish - fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
    • sargassum fish - small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum
    • percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
    • remora, suckerfish, sucking fish - marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
    • silverside, silversides - small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
    • barracuda - any 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 launce - very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
    • dragonet - small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
    • scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates
    • plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
    • flatfish - any 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
    belongs to: acanthopterygii, superorder acanthopterygii - teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays
    same as: spiny-finned fish

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