> You could let a non-Ph.D. take a crack at answering the question first,
but,
> alas, you are correct.
>
> Most tropical fish hobbyists are familiar with arowanas, the African
> butterfly fish, and species of the mormyrid family commonly referred to as
> elephant or elephantnose fishes. What these fishes have in common is teeth
> on the tongue which bite against similarly toothed bones in the roof of
the
> mouth. For this unique anatomical feature these fishes are called
> osteoglossimorphs (or osteoglossiforms), meaning "bony tongue."
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
>
> > From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
> > Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:31:56 -0400
> > To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> > Subject: Re: NANFA-- fish trivia question correction
> >
> >> Oops. I forgot the word "which":
> >>
> >> Which North American native fishes are most closely related to the
> >> elephant-noses?
> >>
> >> Chris Scharpf
> >> Baltimore
> >
> > The two species of mooneyes in the genus Hiodon, part of the superorder
> > Osteoglossamorpha as are the Mormyrid electric fishes in Africa.
> >
> > --Bruce Stallsmith
> > Huntsville, AL, US of A
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