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Taxonomy and classification   (view all pages)

Popular groups of fish Aquarium Barb Fish Betta Fish Catfish Clownfish Goatfish Goldfish Grunts Hawkfish Jellyfish Octopus Pipefish Rabbitfish Snappers Sea Horse Sharks Tinfoil barb Wrasses Whale Shark

Scientific classification Chondrichthyes Elasmobranchii Neoselachii Holocephali Chimaeriformes Teleostomi Euteleostomi Actinopterygii Sarcopterygii

Overview

Fish are, as we all know, aquatic, ectothermic scaled animals, precisely vertebrates. So what do we know about vertebrates? The name vertebrates is, generally speaking, a subphylum (taxonomic rank). The simplest classification of vertabrates is as following:

• Amphibians, Amphibia (such as frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, etc.)
• Birds, Aves
• Mammals, Mammalia (dogs, cats, monkes and humans)
• Reptiles, Reptilia (lizards, crocodiles, snakes)
• Fish, Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes

The basic distinction of fish is that of their skeletal system tissue. There are jawed fish (Chondrichthyes) with a cartilage skeleton and bony fish (Osteichthyes). Now bony fish can be divided into two groups: ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) and lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii).

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