teleost fish, teleost, teleostan

a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

• soft-finned fish, malacopterygian — any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
• cornetfish — slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales
• pipefish, needlefish — fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
• snipefish, bellows fish — small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
• shrimpfish — slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
• trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus — tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down
• needlefish, gar, billfish — elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
• flying fish — tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight
• halfbeak — tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw
• saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus — slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
• spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian — a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
• sweeper — little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
• ganoid, ganoid fish — primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering

• bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes

• Teleostei, subclass Teleostei — large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species