Osteichthyes (bony fish)

Osteichthyes     ( 29,000 species with many more unidentified)

 (Pices – bony fish)

The Osteichthyes class is the largest in the Vertebrata sub-phylum. The Osteichthyes are a taxonomic superclass of fish, also called bony fish that includes the ray-finned fish and lobe finned fish. The vast majority of fish are osteichthyes.