Osteoglossidae is a family of large-sized freshwater fish, which includes the arowanas and arapaima. They are commonly known as bonytongues. The family...
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Arapaima (category Osteoglossidae)
Arapaima is the type genus of the subfamily Arapaiminae within the family Osteoglossidae. They are among the world's largest freshwater fish, reaching as much...
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effects on their status as endangered species. Like all members of the Osteoglossidae, Asian arowanas are highly adapted to fresh water and are incapable...
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Scleropages is a genus of fish in the family Osteoglossidae found in Asia and Australia. All of these species are carnivorous and have great jumping ability...
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African arowana (category Osteoglossidae)
Osteoglossinae (Arapaiminae is sometimes considered to be a separate family from Osteoglossidae). Compared to these, the African arowana has a more terminal mouth and...
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Silver arowana (category Osteoglossidae)
bicirrhosum) is a South American freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae. Silver arowanas are sometimes kept in aquariums, but they are predatory...
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Armorhead catfish (genus Cranoglanis) Armoured catfish Arowana (family Osteoglossidae) Arrowtooth eel (several species, including Dysomma anguillare, Dysomma...
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family Polypteridae Asian arowana, a bonytongue fish of the family Osteoglossidae Draconichthys, an arthrodire placoderm named after Stomiid dragonfishes...
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Arowana (category Osteoglossidae)
Scleropages arowanas about 170 Mya, during the Middle Jurassic. The Osteoglossidae are the only exclusively freshwater fish family found on both sides...
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Arapaiminae (category Osteoglossidae)
freshwater osteoglossiform (bony-tongued) fishes belonging to the family Osteoglossidae. It includes the South American arapaimas of the Amazon and Essequibo...
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