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Definition of Teleostei
1. Noun. Large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species.
Member holonyms: Malacopterygii, Superorder Malacopterygii, Order Solenichthyes, Solenichthyes, Leptocephalus, Teleost, Teleost Fish, Teleostan, Alepisaurus, Genus Alepisaurus, Order Osteoglossiformes, Osteoglossiformes, Order Synentognathi, Synentognathi, Acanthopterygii, Superorder Acanthopterygii, Family Pempheridae, Pempheridae, Ganoidei, Order Ganoidei
Group relationships: Class Osteichthyes, Osteichthyes
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Teleostei
1. n. pl. A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
Medical Definition of Teleostei
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Teleostei
Literary usage of Teleostei
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Fishes by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1880)
"SECOND SUB-CLASS—teleostei. Heart with a non-contractile bulbus arteriosus; ...
The teleostei are divided into six orders :— A. ACANTHOPTERYGII. ..."
2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"teleostei.—This order includes the great majority > in which there is a well-ossified
endoskeleton, and it snds very nearly with Cuvier's division of the ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"On the Kidneys of teleostei. By W. NEWTON PARKER. The author of the present paper,
in following up these investigations, finds that in some teleostei the ..."
4. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"For this reason the teleostei must be broken into many orders, and these orders
are very different in value and in degrees of distinctness, ..."
5. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"For this reason the teleostei must be broken into many orders, and these orders
are very different in value and in degrees of distinctness, ..."
6. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"For this reason the teleostei must be broken into many orders, and these orders
are very different in value and in degrees of distinctness, ..."
7. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"teleostei. THE majority of the teleostei deposit their eggs before ... It seems
in fact very probable that the teleostei are in reality derived from a type ..."
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