The phrase "a bony fish" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of fish that has a skeleton made of bone, as opposed to cartilage, in biological or ecological contexts.
Example: "The salmon is classified as a bony fish, which distinguishes it from species like sharks that have cartilaginous structures."
Alternatives: "an osseous fish" or "a teleost fish".
EVERY second species of vertebrate on the planet is a bony fish.
The flavors in the dish were wonderful, though it had to be eaten with care, like a bony fish, and I wound up with a couple thistles lodged in my throat.
The future of Caspian beluga sturgeon, a bony fish whose armor-plated body can grow as long as 15 feet and weigh more than a ton, has been the subject of growing concern since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the ensuing competition among the fishermen of Azerbaijan, Russia and Kazakhstan for primacy in sturgeon harvesting in the Caspian Sea.
But never forget that you are more than just Homo sapiens: You are also a Craniate, a Vertebrate, a Gnathostome, a Bony Fish, a Lobe-finned Fish, a Tetrapod, an Amniote, a Mammal, a Placental Mammal, a Primate, an Old World Monkey, and even a Great Ape, which would be an unnatural grouping without our inclusion, just to name a few.
Back in 1992, a short scientific paper noted the fossil and classified it as a bony fish belonging to the genus Dialipina, based on the scales and the head bones' similarity to those of bony fish called Dialipina from the New Siberian Islands.
Although the fossil had previously been classified as a bony fish based on its external features, such as the shape of the skull roof and the enamel on the scales, the CT scan revealed a surprising mosaic of features from both cartilaginous and bony fish.
Finally, following the LRR domain many of these molecules (representatives found in all bony fish) possess a B30.2 (PRY-SPRY) domain, which may allow them to interact with distinct molecules to standard NLRs and thus perform some novel function.
Any mention of snoek — a long, bony fish that looks like a second cousin of a barracuda — triggers memories in Jeffrey of his childhood, particularly of the stern interrogation of fishmongers that was part of his late mother's search for a specimen up to the standards of her dinner table.
Our tumblers are filled with a 'special 10-year-old rakia', and out comes a plate of local lapina, a chubby, bony fish the colour of ash.
It is a big, bony fish (filleting it properly is an increasingly rare skill), with moist flesh that is not unlike that of salmon.
It's just possible, I told Jeffrey, that, given his own abhorrence of apartheid, he had settled his national identification on a long, bony fish.
