Definition of soft-finned fish Soft-finned fish
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| soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | ||
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| acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | ||
| teleost, teleost fish, teleostan a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | ||
| malacopterygii, superorder malacopterygii an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays | ||
| order ostariophysi, ostariophysi in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes | ||
| cypriniform fish a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes | ||
| siluriform fish, catfish any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | ||
| gadoid, gadoid fish a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae | ||
| eel voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | ||
| beaked salmon, gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, sandfish fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand | ||
| clupeid, clupeid fish any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas | ||
| whitebait the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts | ||
| anchovy small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide | ||
| salmonid soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters | ||
| whitefish silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere | ||
| smelt small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters | ||
| tarpon, tarpon atlanticus large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida | ||
| albula vulpes, bonefish slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | ||
| argentine any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes | ||
| lanternfish small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | ||
| lizardfish, snake-fish, snakefish tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | ||
| greeneye bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | ||
| lancet fish, lancetfish, wolffish large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | ||
| handsaw fish a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus | ||
| lampris regius, opah, moonfish large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | ||
| lampris guttatus, new world opah from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico | ||
| ribbonfish marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body | ||
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