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Fish: Facts, Scientific Classification, and List of Popular Fish

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What are Fish

A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Most fish are “cold-blooded”, allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans. There are over 31,900 species of fish which givest hem greater species diversity than any other class of vertebrates.

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata

List of Popular Fish

Alligator Gar
Anglerfish
Arapaima
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Blue Marlin
Bull Shark
Butterflyfish
Chinese Paddlefish
Chinese Sturgeon
Clown Anemonefish
Coelacanth
Cubera Snapper
Dog Snapper
Electric Eel
Flying Fish
Gar
Giant Barb
Giant Freshwater Stingray
Great White Shark
Hammerhead Shark
Lake Sturgeon
Lionfish
Mekong Giant Catfish
Mola (Sunfish)
Nurse Shark
Parrot Fish
Pufferfish
Queen Angelfish
River Catfish
Sailfish
Sand Tiger Shark
Leafy and Weedy Sea Dragon
Seahorse
Sockeye Salmon
Stingray
Taimen
Tiger Shark
Triggerfish
Whale Shark

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