malacopterygian

Noun
  1. Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii (synset 101431221)
    is a type of: teleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei
    subtypes:
    • order ostariophysi, ostariophysi - in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes
    • cypriniform fish - a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes
    • catfish, siluriform fish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
    • gadoid, gadoid fish - a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae
    • eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
    • beaked salmon, gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, sandfish - fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
    • clupeid, clupeid fish - any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
    • anchovy - small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
    • salmonid - soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
    • whitefish - silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
    • smelt - small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
    • tarpon, tarpon atlanticus - large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida
    • albula vulpes, bonefish - slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
    • argentine - any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
    • lanternfish - small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night
    • lizardfish, snake-fish, snakefish - tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
    • greeneye - bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster
    • lancet fish, lancetfish, wolffish - large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
    • handsaw fish - a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus
    • lampris regius, moonfish, opah - large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
    • lampris guttatus, new world opah - from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
    • ribbonfish - marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body
    • king of the herring, oarfish, regalecus glesne, ribbonfish - thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin
    member holonym: whitebait - the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts
    belongs to: malacopterygii, superorder malacopterygii - an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays
    same as: soft-finned fish

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