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Fish anatomy is the study of the form or morphology of fish.It can be contrasted with fish physiology, which is the study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. [1]
Ombilinichthys yamini is the oldest known gourami. The family Osphronemidae is divided into the following subfamilies and genera: [3] [4] family Osphronemidae van der Hoeven, 1832
Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the back bone and are supported only by muscles.
The royal angelfish is widely distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific. [4] The species can be found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean around East Africa and the Maldives, stretching to the Tuamoto Islands, New Caledonia, and Great Barrier Reef. [2]
The Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus) comprises several phenotypic varieties of freshwater fish distributed geographically across Southeast Asia. [3] While most consider the different varieties to belong to a single species, [4] [5] [6] [3] [7] work by Pouyaud et al. (2003) [8] differentiates these varieties into multiple species.
The heart is a muscular organ found in humans and other animals.This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. [1] Heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. [2]
The Scorpaeniformes / s k ɔːr ˈ p iː n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, including the lionfishes and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei.It is one of the five largest orders of bony fishes by number of species, with over 1,320.
A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians.