Osteoglossiformes
Translingual
Etymology
Osteoglossum + -iformes
Proper noun
Osteoglossiformes
- A taxonomic order within the class Actinopterygii – freshwater fish with bony tongues, native to much of the southern hemisphere.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Actinopterygii - superclass; Teleostei - class; Osteoglossomorpha - superorder
Hyponyms
- (order): Osteoglossoidei, Notopteroidei - suborders
- Arapaimidae, Pantodontidae, Osteoglossidae, †Singidididae - families in Osteoglossoidei
- Gymnarchidae, Mormyridae, Notopteridae, †Ostariostomidae, †Lycopteridae - families in Notopteroidei
References
Osteoglossiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Osteoglossiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Osteoglossiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Osteoglossiformes at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521