Fish

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fish : any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal (see caudal 2) fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

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Encyclopedia

Fish are the gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. They form a sister group to the tunicates, together forming the olfactores. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Tetrapods emerged within lobe-finned fishes, so cladistically they are fish as well. However, traditionally fish are rendered paraphyletic by excluding the tetrapods (i.e., the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which all descended from within the same ancestry). Because in this manner the term “fish” is defined negatively as a paraphyletic group, it is not considered a formal taxonomic grouping in systematic biology. The traditional term pisces (also ichthyes) is considered a typological, but not a phylogenetic classification. — Wikipedia

Fish (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Bony Vertebrates (One Zoom)

Agnatha (Catalogue of Life)
Chondrichthyes (Catalogue of Life)
Osteichthyes (Catalogue of Life)
Actinopterygii (Catalogue of Life)

Fish (WolframAlpha)

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Talks about Fish (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about Fish (Big Think)

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Science

Ichthyology, also called fish science, is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including jawless fish (Agnatha), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) and bony fish (Osteichthyes). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October 2016, with approximately 250 new species described each year. — Wikipedia

Ichthyology (Encyclopædia Britannica)

FishBase (R. Froese & D. Pauly)
Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (California Academy of Sciences)

Discover Fishes (Florida Museum of Natural History)

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Preservation

Library

DDC: 597.0 Cold-blooded Vertebrates, Fishes (Library Thing)
Subject: Fishes (Library Thing)

Subject: Fishes (Open Library)

LCC: QL 614 Fishes (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Fishes (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QL 614 Fishes (Library of Congress)
Subject: Fishes (Library of Congress)

Subject: Fishes (WorldCat)

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Participation

Education

Fish (Science Trek)
Here Fishy Fishy (Biology4Kids)

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on September 30, 2023 at 8:10 am
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Endangered red wolf can make it in the wild, but...
on September 30, 2023 at 8:09 am
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Dangerous chemicals found in South Carolina's...
on September 29, 2023 at 5:46 pm
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Explosion in fish biodiversity due to genetic...
on September 29, 2023 at 2:14 pm
Scientists show that the extraordinary diversity of cichlid fish in Africa's Lake Victoria was made possible by "genetic recycling"—repeated cycles of new species appearing and rapidly adapting to different roles in the ecosystem. An evolutionary case study that has fascinated researchers for decades, the new study sheds light on how 500 species of fish were able to emerge and thrive in just 16,000 years.

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