Definitions

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  • proper noun A taxonomic subclass within the class Actinopterygii — the ray-finned fish.

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Ancient Greek τέλεος (teleos, "complete") + ὀστέον (osteon, "bone").

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Examples

  • JunXing outline in their paper "Two new species of the sisorid Genus Oreoglanis Smith from Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Sisoridae)"

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Their paper is entitled Pseudecheneis maurus, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Central Vietnam.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Stenogobius (insularigobius) yateiensis, a new species of freshwater goby from New Caledonia (Teleostei: Gobioidei).

    Biological diversity in New Caledonia 2008

  • Lentipes kaaea, a new species of freshwater goby from New Caledonia (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Sicydiinae).

    Biological diversity in New Caledonia 2008

  • Further investigation of the problem was therefore undertaken by continuing the work of Diamare and Rennie on certain of the Teleostei, such as Lophius and Myoxocephalus, in which the islet cells exist apart from the acinar tissue, as the so-called "principal islets".

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • In 1903-1904, Rennie, by anatomical studies in certain Teleostei, gave strong support to the view of Diamare, that the islet cells in these fishes exist as separate glands of relatively large size and more or less independent of the pancreatic acini.

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • On the Volga below Nijni Novgorod the sturgeon, and others of the same family, as also a very great variety of ganoids and _Teleostei_, appear in such quantities that they give occupation to nearly 100,000 people.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • From these plated fishes the sub-class of the bony fishes or Teleostei was developed, to which the great majority of living fishes belong

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Some of these fossil Ganoids approach closely to the Selachii; others are nearer to the Dipneusts; others again represent a transition to the Teleostei.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Comparative anatomy and ontogeny show clearly that the Ganoids descended from the Selachii, and the Teleostei from the Ganoids.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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