Teleost

Teleosts are a megaFaction of fish builds which includes nearly every playable ray-finned fish build in the game. They are the most advanced of the ray-finned megaFactions and absolutely dominate marine and freshwater servers.

## Basic Teleost

A collection of different teleost builds.

## Evolutionary History

Teleosts were started by a group of Holostean players who wanted to expiriment with [Protrusible Mouths] and increased Mobility.

They made their first Faction known as the Pholidophoriformes, which were ligtweight builds with teeth. During that time, most teleost builds were low-tiers with poor skill ceilings who were at the mercy of other builds, including Plesiosaurs, Icthyosaurs and the low-tier Tanystropheus. They remained this way for 150 million years. Meanwhile, the holosteans have already specced into different niches and had the advantage of tough scales,though some quasi teleost builds had recieved significant success like the Leedsichthys.

 As time passed, however, the tides began to turn in the teleosts' favor. The teleosts got the [Genome Duplication] perk and quickly took advantage of it, thus nullifying the holosteans' advantage of scales by developing high-damage attacks of their own like with Xiphactinus, Protosphyraena and Enchodus which could even pierce the holosteans' ganoid scales. Eventually, the devs were so disappointed with the holostean Faction that they banned most builds along with the Dinosaur mains with the K-Pg balance patch.

During the last 50 million years before the current meta, these builds were at their greatest. They began to replace the niches left by the banned holosteans. They have been so used to increased Mobility from homocercal tails and protrusible mouths that they tried to expiriment with builds which specced away from those abilities. And it wasa success, with Catfish, Flatfish and Tarpon speccing away from protrusible mouths. Meanwhile, Ocean Sunfishdecided to spec away from the typical homocercal tails.

## Faction relations

### Osteichyes

#### Sarcopterygii

##### Tetrapods

###### Aminotes

* Mammals
* Sauropsids

## Also See

* Holostean
* Perciforms

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/teleost
2. ↑ https://basicbiology.net/animal/fish/teleost
3. ↑ https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bowfin-13845/
4. ↑ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00046786
5. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=sLoqT\_xWaqoC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=teleosts+faster+than+holosteans&source=bl&ots=7f8-fAcnLv&sig=ACfU3U1zA2KRywopTdOZTlyfFOJqsfZIig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi47\_uIvr3pAhWIvZQKHULeAu0Q6AEwDXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=teleosts%20faster%20than%20holosteans&f=false
6. ↑ https://quizlet.com/35029993/fish-311-rise-and-success-of-teleosts-flash-cards/
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://www.insidescience.org/news/demystifying-evolutionary-success-ray-finned-fishes
8. ↑ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/fossil-fishes-challenge-evolutionary-urban-legend
9. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/holostean
10. ↑ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-018-0431-7
11. ↑ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/81797/
12. ↑ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161005163304.htm
13. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/fish/Actinopterygii-ray-finned-fishes
14. ↑ https://www.leisurepro.com/blog/explore-the-blue/fish-identification-guide-fish-anatomy-part-ii/
15. ↑ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/fish/anatomy/mouth-types/
16. ↑ https://www.aquarium.co.za/blog/entry/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ocean-sunfish