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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. 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. Fish can acoustically communicate with each other, most often in the context of feeding, aggression or courtship.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. With 34,300 described species, fish exhibit greater species diversity than any other group of vertebrates.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, 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.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine
Fishes
A group of cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates having gills, fins, a cartilaginous or bony endoskeleton, and elongated bodies covered with scales.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fishes in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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The numerical value of fishes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of fishes in a Sentence
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
My dad fishes for a variety of things so the only thing that's really been impacted is crab, since processors don't have as much bait to give, we've been doing OK. It's definitely slower and harder.
This animal, however, used to feast on the large turtles or big fishes that it found in the ocean, he was so big and so powerful that it was absolutely at the top of the food chain.
I think it is a highly significant discovery, as the origin and diversificationof modern bony-jawed fishesis still shrouded in mystery, but Janiusiscus takes us abig step closer to really understandingthis major evolutionary transition, from primitive jawed fishes to the beginning of themodern jawed fish fauna.
Progressive Party councilwoman Jane Stromberg:
If wishes were fishes, yeah, of course.
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- أسماكArabic
- RybyCzech
- fiskDanish
- FischeGerman
- ΙχθύεςGreek
- fiŝojEsperanto
- ماهی هاPersian
- KalatFinnish
- des poissonsFrench
- मछलियोंHindi
- HalakHungarian
- ikanIndonesian
- PesciItalian
- מַזַל דָגִיםHebrew
- piscibusLatin
- vissenDutch
- fiskerNorwegian
- rybyPolish
- pestiRomanian
- fiskarSwedish
- மீன்கள்Tamil
- చేపలుTelugu
- ปลาThai
- balıklarTurkish
- рибUkrainian
- مچھلیاںUrdu
- cáVietnamese
- פישYiddish
- 鱼Chinese
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