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Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians.
Fish portal; There are well over 20,000 species of fish, each with a unique scientific name. In addition to their scientific name, many species have one or more common names. With so many species in so many places, it is inevitable that many common names are applied to more than one species.
The following is a list of common fish species known to occur in the lakes and rivers of Canada. Order Petromyzontiformes (lampreys) [ edit ] Family Petromyzontidae (northern lampreys)
Common name Scientific name Image Year Alabama: Largemouth bass (fresh water) Micropterus salmoides: 1975: Fighting tarpon (salt water) Megalops atlanticus: 1955: Alaska: King salmon: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha: 1962: Arizona: Apache trout: Oncorhynchus gilae (subspecies apache) 1986: Arkansas: Alligator gar (primitive) Atractosteus spatula: 2019 ...
Engraulis ringens. Wild. 4,692,855. Silver carp. Hypophthalmichthys molitrix. Cultivated. 4,189,578. A variety of Asian carp, widely cultivated with other aquaculture carp, but under pressure in its home range (China and eastern Siberia). Also called "flying fish", it is an invasive species in many countries.
Common carp in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. The term carp ( pl.: carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia. While carp are prized quarries and are valued (even commercially cultivated) as both food and ornamental fish in many ...
The common cuttlefish or European common cuttlefish ( Sepia officinalis) is one of the largest and best-known cuttlefish species. They are a migratory species that spend the summer and spring inshore for spawning and then move to depths of 100–200 metres (330–660 ft) during autumn and winter. [2] They grow to 49 centimetres (19 in) in ...