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Fishes are typically divided into three groups: superclass Agnatha (jawless fishes), class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes), and superclass Osteichthyes (bony fishes). The latter two groups are included within the infraphylum Gnathostomata, a category containing all jawed vertebrates.
- What animal class is a fish?
- What is a fish categorized as?
- Is a fish an amphibian or reptile?
- What are the four classes of fish?
- What are the five classes of fish?
- How many families of fish are there?
- What is the most known fish?
- What is the most caught fish?
- What are the classification of fish based on habitat?
- What type of fish are mammals?
- What is a fish a mammal?
- Is fish a reptile or mammal?
- Are fish and snakes related?
What animal class is a fish?
Fishes are included in the class Pisces of the Phylum Vertebrata. Fish classification is big and it depends on the type of bone as cartilagenous or ossified. Each species is classified upto order, suborder and species and sometimes to subspecies level.
What is a fish categorized as?
Fishes are a group of animals that are completely aquatic vertebrates that have gills, scales, swim bladders to float, most produce eggs, and are ectothermic.
Is a fish an amphibian or reptile?
Fish are vertebrates that live in water and have gills, scales and fins on their body.
What are the four classes of fish?
The classes are commonly referred to as hagfish, lampreys, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish, and lobe-finned fish (see the table in the previous lesson).
What are the five classes of fish?
There are about 28,000 existing species of fish, and they are placed in five different classes. The classes are commonly referred to as hagfish, lampreys, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish, and lobe-finned fish (see the table in the previous lesson).
How many families of fish are there?
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.
What is the most known fish?
Atlantic Cod
The Atlantic cod, or simply cod, is among the most consumed fish (by humans) in the world. They are found on both sides North Atlantic Ocean as well as parts of the Arctic Ocean including the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
What is the most caught fish?
The world's 23 most fished species: From anchovy to pilchard, via tuna. Despite a steep drop in catches in 2012, Peru's anchovy remained by far the most caught fish in the world, shows a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization.
What are the classification of fish based on habitat?
(a) Based on their Habitat:
Fishes live either in fresh water or salt water. Fresh Water Fishes: This is water that has no salt e.g. rivers, streams, ponds, springs, etc. the fishes present are trout, pire, carp, perch, tilapia, mudfish, catfish. Freshwater fishes cannot survive in saltwater.
What type of fish are mammals?
There are 75 species of dolphins, whales, and porpoises living in the ocean. They are the only mammals, other than manatees, that spend their entire lives in the water.
What is a fish a mammal?
Fish are not mammals because most of them are not warmblooded, though some sharks and species of tuna are exceptions. They do not have limbs, fingers, toes, fur, or hair, and most of them can't breathe air, though the lungfish and the snakehead are also exceptions.
Is fish a reptile or mammal?
fish, any of approximately 34,000 species of vertebrate animals (phylum Chordata) found in the fresh and salt waters of the world. Living species range from the primitive jawless lampreys and hagfishes through the cartilaginous sharks, skates, and rays to the abundant and diverse bony fishes.
Are fish and snakes related?
However, fish scales and reptile scales are not homologous -- meaning that they do not arise from the same embryonic tissues. Fish have scales that arise from dermal -- bony -- tissue and have a somewhat similar composition to bone. ... These scales form from the epidermis, somewhat like those of snakes and lizards do.
