About Fishes
Fish Bones
Fishes come in such an amazing variety of shapes and sizes that there is no 'typical' fish skeleton. The hagfishes and lampreys lack jaws. The sharks, rays and chimaeras have a skeleton made of cartilage. The teleosts have skeletons made of bone.
The images on this page show the bones of a Striped Sea-bass. To view the names of the bones, click on the 'larger image' links in the captions.
Related links
- Fish Remains - bone identification site
- View the Parts of a fish page.
Further reading
- Helfman, G.S., Collette, B.B. & D.E. Facey. 1997. The Diversity of Fishes. Blackwell Science. Pp. 528.
- Jordan, D.S. 1905. Guide to the Study of Fishes. Henry Holt and Company. Pp. 624.
