shrimp-fish vs teleost

shrimp-fish and teleost both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shrimp-fish	Yes	No	No	No
teleost	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, teleost is a hypernym of shrimp-fish; that is, teleost is a word with a broader meaning than shrimp-fish:

shrimp-fish: slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
teleost: a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

Other hypernyms of shrimp-fish include teleost fish, teleostan.

shrimp-fish (noun)	teleost (noun)
slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates	a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei