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Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
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.
Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-[1]) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous , and are descended from other, earlier acipenseriform fish , which date back to the Early Jurassic period, some ...
List of aquarium fish by scientific name. 3 languages. ... This article lists fish commonly kept in aquariums and ponds. [1] Anguilliformes. Muraenidae.
Some other fishes called salmon Common name Scientific name Order Maximum length Common length Maximum weight Maximum age Trophic level Fish Base FAO ITIS IUCN status; Australian salmon: Arripis trutta (Forster, 1801) Perciformes: 89 cm (2 ft 11 in) 47 cm (1 ft 7 in) 9.4 kilograms (21 lb) 26 years 4.1 [34] [35] Not assessed: Danube salmon
Fishes are a paraphyletic group and for this reason, the class Pisces seen in older reference works is no longer used in formal taxonomy.Traditional classification divides fish into three extant classes (Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, and Osteichthyes), and with extinct forms sometimes classified within those groups, sometimes as their own classes: [1]
Chimaeras [1] are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes (/ k ɪ ˈ m ɛ r ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /), known informally as ghost sharks, rat fish (not to be confused with rattails), spookfish, or rabbit fish; the last two names are also applied to Opisthoproctidae and Siganidae, respectively.
Also just called the X-ray fish. Yellow phantom tetra: Hyphessobrycon roseus: 2 cm (0.79 in) African moon tetra: Bathyaethiops caudomaculatus: 8 cm (3.1 in) Congo tetra: Phenacogrammus interruptus: 7.5 cm (3.0 in) Peaceful but may scare shy species with its active swimming and large adult size. Recommended for most community tanks however.