Bonytongues
Osteoglossiformes
Osteoglossiformes (Greek: "bony tongues") is a relatively primitive order of ray-finned fish that contains two sub-orders, the Osteoglossoidei and the Notopteroidei. All of at least 245 living species inhabit freshwater. They are found in South America, Africa, Australia and southern Asia, having first evolved in Gondwana before that continent broke up.
6 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 255 known species
Arowanas
familyOsteoglossidae
Arapaimas
familyArapaimidae
Elephantfishes
familyMormyridae
Featherbacks
familyNotopteridae
Freshwater Butterflyfishes
familyPantodontidae
Abas
familyGymnarchidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49240.