In the adult ganoid or teleost these blind diverticula or pouches, varying greatly in shape, number and size, protrude from the intestine immediately beyond the pylorus, usually in close connection with the duodenal entrance of the bile-duct.
Such for example is the case in some teleost fishes, as the pickerel (Fig.
This condition depends upon the relatively much shorter extent of the teleost endgut compared with the human large intestine.
There are, however, more than thirty others preserved, some of them, such as those from Naples, written in the Greek language.
For understanding the texts of the inscriptions an accurate knowledge of the system of abbreviations used in them is necessary (see Cagnat, Cours d'epigraphie latine, 3rd ed.
In the sharks and in all higher fishes the mandible is joined to the skull by a suspensorium of bones or cartilages (quadrate, symplectic, and hyomandibular bones in the Teleost fishes).
As a rule, the egg of a Teleost is small, perfectly spherical, and enclosed in delicate but greatly distended membranes.
Therefore it was thought that the teleostseries could not have had a common origin with the series of sharks.
Cope was one of the first to insist on the close relation of the true ganoids with the teleost fishes, the nearest related group of which he defined as Isospondyli.
The teleost is adapted to its mode of life, and to that end it is specialized in fin and skeleton rather than in brain and nerves.
Dean's "Fishes Living and Fossil," in which work the details of growth in the Teleost are contrasted with those of other types of fishes.
In the sea, whales, sharks, and teleost fishes of modern types rule in the stead of huge swimming reptiles.
In teleost fishes the spermatozoon can enter the eggs of widely different species but with rare exceptions all the embryos will die in an early stage of development.
The egg of the marine fish Fundulus heteroclitus can be fertilized with the sperm of almost any other teleost fish, as Moenkhaus[37] first observed.
It is seen that the two upper arches on each side are obliterated, as indeed they already are in some teleost fishes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teleost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
