osteoglossomorph

English

Noun

osteoglossomorph (plural osteoglossomorphs)

1. Any fish of the superorder Osteoglossomorpha.
   • 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Postcranial pneumaticity is absent in all other extant vertebrates with the known exceptions of osteoglossomorph fish and the hyoid bone in howler monkeys.