1. Characteristics of Cartilaginous Fish

2. Cartilaginous fish are true fish

3. Cartilaginous fish are fish that have a skeleton made of cartilage, rather than bone. All sharks, skates, and rays (e.g., the southern stingray) are Cartilaginous fish

4. The Cartilaginous fish, or Chondricthyes, include the sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras

5. Silurian Cartilaginous fish are known only from scales, a few teeth, and small disarticulated fossils (Qu, 2010)

6. Definition of Cartilaginous fish : any of a class (Chondrichthyes) of fishes (such as a shark, ray, or chimaera) having the skeleton wholly or largely composed of cartilage — compare bony fish, jawless fish Examples of Cartilaginous fish in a Sentence

7. In Cartilaginous fish and cyclostomes the entire skeleton consists of cartilage; in other vertebrates the Cartilaginous skeleton occurs only in embryos.

8. Furthermore, these two types of fish fall under different taxonomic groups – Cartilaginous fish are grouped under the class Chondrichthyes and all …

9. Indeed, in many cartilaginous fish, the anterior portion of the kidney may degenerate or cease to function altogether in the adult.

10. Cartilaginous Fish (Chondrichthyes): Cartilaginous fishes belong to the Chondrichthyes class that includes the sharks, skates, and rays, and the other course includes chimeras

11. Cartilaginous Some scientists think of it as the "missing link" between sharks and ray, two distinct kinds of Cartilaginous fish that are actually closely related.

12. Alternative Titles: Chondrichthyes, Selachii, Cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian Chondrichthyan, (class Chondrichthyes), also called chondrichthian, any member of the diverse group of Cartilaginous fishes that includes the sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.

13. Cartilaginous fish developed a few modifications of the braincase which are shared among all jawed fish except placoderms (such as several aspects of the structure of the otic capsule) (Maisey, 2005)