Osteoglossiformes
Translingual
Etymology
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; Osteichthyes – superclass; Actinopterygii – superclass; Actinopteri – class; Neopterygii – subclass; Teleostei – infraclass; 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
- Category: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. PMID 25923521, →DOI