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Fish
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Fish might refer to:
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Goatfish.jpg/165px-Goatfish.jpg)
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
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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]
References[edit]
- ↑ 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.