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No! Whales are air-breathing mammals that give birth to live young. Whales produce milk for their young, which also designates them as mammals.

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Do sharks and whales belong to the same group?

No, sharks and whales belong to different groups. Sharks are fish and belong to the group Chondrichthyes, while whales are mammals and belong to the group Cetacea. They are both classified under the superclass Osteichthyes, which includes all bony fish, but they diverged into separate evolutionary paths long ago.


What are classifications of the cetacea order?

The cetacea order is classified into two suborders: Odontoceti (toothed whales) and Mysticeti (baleen whales). Odontoceti includes dolphins, porpoises, and sperm whales, which have teeth for hunting. Mysticeti includes species like humpback and blue whales, which have baleen plates to filter feed.


How are fish classified?

Fish are classified in the kingdom Animalia, and within that they are nested into the phylum Chordata, subphylum vertebrata. Beyond that, extant(modern day) fish are grouped into several classes; Agnatha (jawless fish-hagfish, lamprey, ~100 species), Chondrichthyes(cartilagenous fish - sharks, rays, skates, chimeras, ~950 species), and the vast majority of modern fish (30 000 species) are in the class Osteichthyes(bony fish), of which most in that group are in the subclass Actinopterygii, the ray finned fishes. The only other extant group is a small sister group of the Actinopterygii, the Sarcopterygii, which consists of only the ancient Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, and a few (6) species of Lung Fish.There are a great number of ways to classify fish. Fish can be classified by environment, size, coloring, and diet.


Fish are classified under phylum chordata?

Yes, fish are classified under the phylum Chordata because they possess a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail during some stage of their life cycle.


How many phyla of fish are there?

Fish are general classified into one phylum which is known as chordata. There some fish like the hagfish that are not able to fit into this phyla properly.