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- noun Plural form of
teleost .
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The great group of fishes called the teleosts, or those with complete bony skeletons, to which most modern fishes belong, may be mentioned here, although in the Devonian they had not yet appeared.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The teleosts are a highly specialized type, adapted most perfectly to their aquatic environment.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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But if he insists, many teleosts have a greater diversity of photopigments and can see colors we can't even imagine…so humans are once again also-rans in the color vision department.
More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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And later, by the way, the teleosts – which means just about any fish you are likely to meet, except sharks and their kind – modified the lung which had previously evolved in ancestors that occasionally breathed air to become yet another vital organ, which has nothing to do with breathing: the swim bladder.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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And later, by the way, the teleosts – which means just about any fish you are likely to meet, except sharks and their kind – modified the lung which had previously evolved in ancestors that occasionally breathed air to become yet another vital organ, which has nothing to do with breathing: the swim bladder.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Two groups of teleosts, the mormyriforms of Africa and the gymnotiforms of South America, have convergently evolved electric organs EOs whose weak electrical emissions function as communication signals and for electrolocation.
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These midline fins are everywhere in fish—lampreys have them, sharks have them, teleosts have them, and we've got traces of them in the fossil record.
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These midline fins are everywhere in fish—lampreys have them, sharks have them, teleosts have them, and we've got traces of them in the fossil record.
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Nonetheless, the Zakon paper authoritatively states that “Two groups of teleosts, the mormyriforms of Africa and the gymnotiforms of South America, have convergently evolved electric organs.” And the paper concludes that certain evolutionary convergences occurred in the sodium channel genes.
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A genome duplication at the origin of teleosts has been suggested as a substrate for the morphological diversity and extensive speciation characteristic of teleosts 22, 23.
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