The bonefishes' closest relatives are the tarpons and ladyfishes in the order Elopiformes.

The disbelieving naval officer is told that the surrounding waters are home to man-sized, carnivorous Bonefishes.

Bonefishes possess crushing teeth in their palates.

The bonefishes are brackish or saltwater fish typically living in estuaries and travelling out to sea to spawn on a lunar cycle.

Like tarpons and ladyfishes, bonefishes can breathe air via a modified swim bladder, and are found in brackish waters.

Bonefishes are unlike tarpons in that their mouths are under the snout rather than the end of it, and bonefishes lack the tarpons' protruding snout.

The bonefishes are a family (Albulidae) of ray-finned fish that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific, and the Bahamas (where two bonefish are featured on the 10-cent coin) and elsewhere.

The superorder Elopomorpha contains a variety of types of fishes that range from typical silvery-colored species, such as the tarpons and ladyfishes of the Elopiformes and the bonefishes of the Albuliformes, to the long and slender, smooth-bodied eels of the Anguilliformes.

Albula is a genus of fish belonging to the bonefish family Albulidae.

The Japanese gissu, Pterothrissus gissu, is a saltwater fish species of the Albulidae family.