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Tracing origins Past research has demonstrated that the most common form of modern fish (called teleosts) do not use neural crest cells to form their scales.—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2023 The vast majority of these transfers happened in teleost fish, Gilbert said.—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023 While snakes and spiders make milking large quantities of venom relatively straightforward, extracting enough venom to run experiments with from a tiny teleost is less obvious and proved to be time-consuming.—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017 These two teleosts, or relatives of bony-tongues fish, lived between 89 and 90 million years ago.—Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
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ultimately from Greek teleios complete, perfect (from telos end) + osteon bone — more at osseous
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