And here's your answer to what is a fish-zoologically speaking as you asked in the comment you left on my post. A fish has gills to breath with and gets its oxygen out of the water using those gills,gill openings to release water, some arrangement fins for swimming (and not like a dolphin or whale fins which have a bone structure very roughly similar to our hands and feet), vertebrae, and live in water most of the time. There are 3 groups of fish, lampreys and hagfish are the first, and they don't really have scales. Then there are sharks, skates and rays that have a cartilage skeleton (as do lampreys and hagfish), hooked scales and no covering to their gills, and finally all the other fish known as boney fish that have flat scales and a covering over their gills. There's lots of other details, but I think this is a nice general answer. Sorry if I got to geeky. It's my zoology classes in college coming through. Smile.
Because this blog does not consist of a single focus topic I chose the name Divers and Sundry where "Divers" means being of many and various kinds, and "Sundry" means consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds.
...good choice.
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It's a treasure :) Glad you liked it.
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ReplyDeleteAnd here's your answer to what is a fish-zoologically speaking as you asked in the comment you left on my post. A fish has gills to breath with and gets its oxygen out of the water using those gills,gill openings to release water, some arrangement fins for swimming (and not like a dolphin or whale fins which have a bone structure very roughly similar to our hands and feet), vertebrae, and live in water most of the time. There are 3 groups of fish, lampreys and hagfish are the first, and they don't really have scales. Then there are sharks, skates and rays that have a cartilage skeleton (as do lampreys and hagfish), hooked scales and no covering to their gills, and finally all the other fish known as boney fish that have flat scales and a covering over their gills. There's lots of other details, but I think this is a nice general answer. Sorry if I got to geeky. It's my zoology classes in college coming through. Smile.
Hope you're having a nice Monday!
My comment was actually a joke, referring to Stephen Jay Gould saying there's no such thing as fish ;) "Fish" has no biological meaning.
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It's even the name of a podcast: https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/
Love this, thanks for sharing! Valerie
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