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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]
At least five extinct genera, known only from fossils, are classified as osteoglossids; these date back at least as far as the Late Cretaceous.Other fossils from as far back as the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous are widely considered to belong to the arowana superorder Osteoglossomorpha.
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.
Arsik is an Indonesian spicy fish dish of the Batak Toba and Mandailing people of North Sumatra, usually using the common carp (known in Indonesia as ikan mas or gold fish). [ 1 ] Distinctively Batak elements of the dish are the use of torch ginger fruit ( asam cikala ), and andaliman (similar to Sichuan pepper ). [ 1 ]
Anatomy (from Ancient Greek ἀνατομή (anatomḗ) 'dissection') is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. [1]
Coelenterata is a term encompassing the animal phyla Cnidaria (corals, true jellies, sea anemones, sea pens, and their relatives) and Ctenophora (comb jellies). The name comes from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos) 'hollow' and ἔντερον (énteron) 'intestine', referring to the hollow body cavity common to these two phyla.
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.
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.