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Top: Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna: Animalia: Chordata: Fish: Bony
Bony fish (Osteichthyes) are characterized by a relatively stable pattern of backbone, and swim bladder.
Acipenseriformes includes Sturgeons (Acipenseridae) and Paddlefishes (Polyodontidae).
Eels.
Order of fish which includes needlefish, flyingfishes, halfbeaks, sauries, ricefish and medakas.
Clupeiformes is an order of fishes commonly known as the herrings. Includes Denticipitidae (denticle herring), Engraulididae (anchovies), Pristigasteridae (pristigasterids), Chirocentridae (wolf herring), and Clupeidae (herrings).
Coelacanths.
Order of fish that includes minnows, carp, and suckers.
Killifish.
Family of fish. Common name is the pikes.
Order of ray-finned fish, also called the Anacanthini, that includes the cod and its allies.
Includes sticklebacks and seahorses.
Order of fish commonly known as knifefishes.
Includes anglerfish and frogfish.
Order of fishes generally known as the smelts, including many families: Argentinidae [argentines or herring smelts], Microstomatidae [microstomatids], Bathylagidae [deap-sea smelts], Opisthoproctidae [barreleyes or spookfishes], Leptochilichthyidae [leptochilichthyids], Alepocephalidae [slickheads], Platytroctidae [platytroctids], Osmeridae [smelts], Salangidae [icefishes or noodlefishes], Sundasalangidae [Sundaland noodlefishes], Retropinnidae [New Zealand smelts], Lepidogalaxiidae [salamanderfishes], Galaxiidae [galaxiids]
Large order of fishes that includes families such as the Percidae (perches), Centrarchidae (sunfishes), Sciaenidae (drums or croakers), Cichlidae (cichlids), Scombridae (mackerels and tunas), Xiphiidae (billfishes), and Channidae (snakeheads).
Order of fish, the flounders.
Salmon.
Scorpionfishes.
Catfish.
Includes boxfishes, filefishes, puffers, and sunfishes.
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