Osteoglossiformes

Translingual

Etymology

Osteoglossum +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Osteoglossiformes

1. 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
• 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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248