Fish

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Fish might refer to:

A typical RW editor
Yellow saddle goatfish (Parupeneus cyclostomus): "They look harmless, but they're vicious predators. That's why it's fun to follow them — there's always action." — Redouan Bshary[1]

Biology[edit]

True fish[edit]

  • Amphistium and Heteronectes — transitional forms for flatfish
  • Coelacanth
  • Conodont — most likely a jawless fish
  • Fish that survive on land
  • Garra rufa fish
  • Haikouichthys — an extinct animal that was a transitional form between fishes and invertebrates
  • Ichthyostega — an extinct fish/amphibian
  • Lungfish
  • Placodermi — one of the first groups of jawed fish
  • Shark
  • Tiktaalik — an extinct fish at the cusp of the fish-tetrapod transition

Cladistically fish[edit]

  • Vertebrate — cladistically speaking, these are all fish
  • Dolphin — not actually a fish although it was historically believed to be one

Things often misidentified as fish[edit]

  • Lancelet — not actually a fish, but close!
  • Mollusc — not actually a fish
  • Crustacean — not actually a fish

Items closely related to fish[edit]

  • Fish farming
  • Fish oil
  • Fun:Fishing

Miscellaneous[edit]

  • Babel Fish
  • Darwin fish
  • Darwin Fish (fundamentalist loon)
  • Fishing expedition, a.k.a. p-value fishing or p-hacking, is a type of abuse of statistical methodology.
  • Flirty fishing — a sex-baiting technique used by the Children of God cult
  • Fun:Phishing
  • Red herring

See also[edit]

  • Fischer

References[edit]

  1. In a pack hunt, it's every goatfish for itself: These fish hunt selfishly with a touch of accidental helpfulness by Susan Milius (7:00am, March 6, 2018) Science News.


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