Bone fish: characteristics and examples

All bone fish belong to the superclass Osteichthyeswhich is divided in turn into the following lower categories:

Sarcopteryi class

Fish group with radiated fins. Most of the bone fish belongs to this class.

• Chondrostei subclass: Your skeleton is not totally ossified.
• NEOPterygii subclass: They have evolved fins, and has the following infraclases:
  · Holostei infraclase: It is the transition group between Chondrostei and Teleostei.
  · Teleostei infraclase: This group belongs 96% of all the fish that exist. They have a jaw with high mobility.

Actinopteryi class

They are lobed fins fish, which are the evolutionary transition from fish to amphibians.

• Tetrapodomorpha subclass: fish that have similar characteristics to terrestrial tetrapods.
• COELACANTHIMORPHA SUBCLASE: Known as Celacantos, of strong bone lobed fins.
• Dipnoi subclass: lung fish. Know here more about fish with lungs: characteristics, habitat and behavior.

We advise you to read about the classification of the fish and the life cycle of the fish.

These are the main characteristics of bone fish:

• Bone fish have a Internal skeleton made of bone tissuethat is, these fish They do have bones.
• They are covered by overlapping scaleson which the epidermis is.
• They have one swim bladderwhich works like a balloon full of air that facilitates flotability and swimming.
• Their jaw is articulated, which allows them to open and close their mouths easily.
• Have dorsal, caudales, pelvian, anal and thoracic fins. The caudal fin is located vertically.
• They are ectoterms or cold blood animals.

We recommend you read this other post about the parts of a fish.

To know them better, we indicate 30 examples of bones fish:

• Zebra fish (Danio Rerio)
• Queen Loro Fish (Scarus vetula)
• Koi tent (Cyprinus Carpio koi)
• Salmon (Psalm spp.)
• CELACANTO COMORENSE (LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE)
• Blue surgeon fish (Paracanthurus hepatus)
• Totoaba (Totoaba Macdonaldi)
• Queensland pulmoned fish (NEOCERATODUS Forsteri)
• Luna fish (Cool cool)
• Goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus)
• Clownfish (Amphiprion oellaris)
• Stone fish (Horrida Synanceia)
• Pejelagarto Pintado (Lepisosteus oculatus)
• Betta fish (Betta Splendens)
• Common eel (Anguilla Anguilla)
• Salamandra fishing fish (LEPIDOSIEN PARADOXA)
• Cat fish
• Charal (Chirostoma spp.)
• Butterfly (Pantodon Buchholzi)
• Seahorse (Hippocampus spp.)
• Catfish (Catfish spp.)
• Common sole (Solea Solea)
• Elephant fish (Campylomormyrus numenius)
• Scorpion fish (Pterois antennata)
• Rémora (Echeneis Naucrates)
• Norway cod (Gadus Morhua)
• Lionfish (Pterois antennata)
• Common Piraña (Pygocentrus nattereri)
• Guppy (Poecilia Reticulata)
• Globe fish (Tetraodontidae family)

The fish have different types of foodin relation to the species and habitat in which they develop. This is how there are also different types of teeth and different positions of the mouth based on what they feed. We can observe the following types of food for bone fish:

• Herbivorous: These fish feed on seaweed, phytoplankton, and sea plants. To obtain they can bite the plants, or scrape on stones or corals in which different types of algae grow. If you want to know the herbivorous animals better: what are and examples can read this article.
• Carnivorous: These fish have very developed dentition to obtain their prey. An example is the pointed teeth of the piranhas. Dams can be from invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans or other arthropods, to fish. Know more about carnivorous animals: examples and names here.
• Omnivorous: both types of food mentioned complement. This is the most frequent case, because they do not need a high degree of specialization to obtain food. In this link you can see more information about which animals are omnivorous.
• Filtrator: It is used by the fish that feed on plankton. They open their mouths and suck the water to retain within them the small food particles.
• Detritivorous: They feed on accumulated or decomposition organic matter. They are usually found in seabed where such organic matter accumulates. You can learn more about detritivorous animals: definition and examples reading this post.

Bone fish may have fresh water or salted water ecosystems species, with their respective adaptations. You can find bone fish in All the planet’s aquatic systemsincluding in the poles where temperatures are very low, or considerable depths where the pressure is high and the light is scarce.

In this link you will meet the river fish: types, list of names and images.

These are the main characteristics of the reproduction of fish with bones:

• Bone fish have Ovipara reproductionalthough a few species may be viviparous, or ovoviviparous. Here you can read about what oviparous animals are.
• Fertilization is external mostly, because in a few species it can be internal and is rare. Know more about this reproductive process reading this article about external fertilization: what is and animals.
• As for the sexes, there are species of separate sexes, hermaphrodites with both sexes, or sequential hermaphrodites They alternate sex according to the season. In this other post you can read more about hermaphrodite animals: reproduction and examples.
• There is no parental care After the birth of the young.

In this other post you can learn more about fish reproduction.

In addition to having bone fish, sharks, chimeras, stripes and blankets are also called fish, but the latter are cartilaginous fish. Although they have similar aquatic characteristics, they are different and then we talk to you why.

• The question is that, as the name implies, Bone fish have a skeleton made of bonewhile Cartilaginous fish have it of cartilage.
• On the other hand, The osteíts (bone fish) have a operculumbut the condricts (cartilaginous fish) have them completely exposed.
• Bone fish complete the fertilization of eggs externally and have a strategy where they produce many eggs considering that much of them will not succeed. On the contrary, cartilaginous have internal fertilizationwhich ensures a higher survival rate.
• We can find freshwater but also sailor osteins, but Cartilaginous are typical of salty waters.

Once you know the bone or osteic fish better, we recommend you to continue learning about the fish in general, since they are the most abundant animals on the planet. Here you can read about how fish breathes.

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