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    Fish are aquatic craniate animals that breathe through gills and lack limbs with digits. There are over 34,000 species of fish comprising 95% ray-finned fish and 99% of those being teleosts. Fish first appeared in the Cambrian period as soft-bodied chordates and have since evolved into a wide diversity of forms, with many Paleozoic fish developing armor and jaws appearing in the Silurian period. Fish are found in nearly all aquatic environments from mountain streams to the deepest ocean depths.

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    Fish are aquatic craniate animals that breathe through gills and lack limbs with digits. There are over 34,000 species of fish comprising 95% ray-finned fish and 99% of those being teleosts. Fish first appeared in the Cambrian period as soft-bodied chordates and have since evolved into a wide diversity of forms, with many Paleozoic fish developing armor and jaws appearing in the Silurian period. Fish are found in nearly all aquatic environments from mountain streams to the deepest ocean depths.

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    Fish are aquatic craniate animals that breathe through gills and lack limbs with digits. There are over 34,000 species of fish comprising 95% ray-finned fish and 99% of those being teleosts. Fish first appeared in the Cambrian period as soft-bodied chordates and have since evolved into a wide diversity of forms, with many Paleozoic fish developing armor and jaws appearing in the Silurian period. Fish are found in nearly all aquatic environments from mountain streams to the deepest ocean depths.

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    Fish are aquatic craniate animals that breathe through gills and lack limbs with digits. There are over 34,000 species of fish comprising 95% ray-finned fish and 99% of those being teleosts. Fish first appeared in the Cambrian period as soft-bodied chordates and have since evolved into a wide diversity of forms, with many Paleozoic fish developing armor and jaws appearing in the Silurian period. Fish are found in nearly all aquatic environments from mountain streams to the deepest ocean depths.

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    Fish

    Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this
    definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various
    extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of living fish species are ray-finned fish, belonging to
    the class Actinopterygii, with around 99% of those being teleosts.
    Fish
    Temporal range: Middle Cambrian - Recent

    Giant grouper swimming among schools of other fish

    Head-on view of a red lionfish

    Scientific classification

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Clade: Olfactores

    Subphylum: Vertebrata

    Groups included

    Jawless fish
    †Armoured fish
    †Spiny sharks
    Cartilaginous fish
    Bony fish
    Ray-finned fish
    Lobe-finned fish
    Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa

    Tetrapods

    The earliest organisms that can be classified as fish were soft-bodied chordates that first
    appeared during the Cambrian period. Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed
    notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts. Fish
    would continue to evolve through the Paleozoic era, diversifying into a wide variety of forms.
    Many fish of the Paleozoic developed external armor that protected them from predators. The
    first fish with jaws appeared in the Silurian period, after which many (such as sharks) became
    formidable marine predators rather than just the prey of arthropods.

    Most fish are ectothermic ("cold-blooded"), allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient
    temperatures change, though some of the large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can
    hold a higher core temperature.[1][2] Fish can acoustically communicate with each other, most
    often in the context of feeding, aggression or courtship.[3]

    Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments,
    from high mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) to the abyssal and even hadal depths of
    the deepest oceans (e.g., cusk-eels and snailfish), although no species has yet been
    documented in the deepest 25% of the ocean.[4] With 34,300 described species, fish exhibit
    greater species diversity than any other group of vertebrates.[5]

    Fish are an important resource for humans worldwide, especially as food. Commercial and
    subsistence fishers hunt fish in wild fisheries or farm them in ponds or in cages in the ocean (in
    aquaculture). They are also caught by recreational fishers, kept as pets, raised by fishkeepers,
    and exhibited in public aquaria. Fish have had a role in culture through the ages, serving as
    deities, religious symbols, and as the subjects of art, books and movies.

    Tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) emerged within lobe-finned fishes, so
    cladistically they are fish as well. However, traditionally fish (pisces or ichthyes) are rendered
    paraphyletic by excluding the tetrapods, and are therefore not considered a formal taxonomic
    grouping in systematic biology, unless it is used in the cladistic sense, including tetrapods,[6][7]
    although usually "vertebrate" is preferred and used for this purpose (fish plus tetrapods) instead.
    Furthermore, cetaceans, although mammals, have often been considered fish by various
    cultures and time periods.

    Etymology

    Evolution

    Anatomy and physiology

    Acoustic communication

    Diseases

    Conservation

    Importance to humans

    Terminology

    See also

    Notes

    References

    Further reading

    External links
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    title=Fish&oldid=1126247366"


    Last edited 19 hours ago by Stephan Leeds

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