Crossword-Solution: TELEOSTS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Modern fishes are divided into several groups: SHARKS and their allies; DIPNOANS; GANOIDS, such as the sturgeon and gar; and TELEOSTS,-- most common fishes, such as the perch and cod.

The great group of fishes called the teleosts, or those with complete bony skeletons, to which most modern fishes belong, may be mentioned here, although in the Devonian they had not yet appeared.

Craniota (with skull) _a._ Cyclostomes (“round-mouthed”) _b._ Fishes Selachii Ganoids Teleosts Dipneusts _c._ Amphibia _d._ Reptiles _e._ Birds _f._ Mammal Monotremes Marsupials Placentals: Rodents Edentates Ungulates Cetacea Sirenia Insectivora Cheiroptera Carnassia Primates (This classification is given for the purpose of explaining Haeckel’s use of terms in this volume.

Hertwig considered that the following bones were originally formed by coalescence of teeth--parasphenoid, vomer, palatine, pterygoid, the tooth-bearing part of the pre-maxillary, the maxillary, the dentary and certain bones of the hyo-mandibular skeleton of Teleosts.

The former is better suited to animals which have to rise rapidly to the surface for air, and is still continued in some modern fishes, which for other reasons need to ascend and descend, or to turn themselves in the water; but the homocercal form is best suited to the ordinary fish, whether Ganoids or Teleosts (Fig.