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actinopterygians include the most familiar fish, such as sturgeons, gars, eels , carp , herrings , anchovies, catfishes , goldfishes, piranhas, oarfish , seahorses , bass, cichlids, pickerel, salmon , and trout . the ray-finned fishes are so called because they possess lepidotrichia or "fin rays," their fins
being webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines ("rays"), as opposed to the fleshy, lobed fins characteristic of the sarcopterygii , which together with the actinopterygians comprise the superclass osteichthyes , or bony fish. the actinopterygian fin rays attach directly to the proximal or basal...
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