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A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is typically cold-blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins.

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What is the scientific name or taxonomic classification of the fish Black bullhead?

The scientific name of the Black bullhead fish is Ameiurus melas. It belongs to the taxonomic classification as follows:

  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Class: Actinopterygii
  • Order: Siluriformes
  • Family: Ictaluridae
  • Genus: Ameiurus

What is the scientific name or taxonomic classification of the fish Atlantic cod?

The scientific name of the Atlantic cod is Gadus morhua. It belongs to the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Actinopterygii, Order Gadiformes, Family Gadidae.

Scientific classification of a white perch?

WHITE PERCH

Domain: Eukarya

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Superclass: Osteichthyes

Class: Actinopterygii

Subclass: Neopterygii

Infraclass: Teleostei

Superorder: Acantheropterygii

Order: Perciformes

Suborder: Percoidei

Family: Moronidae

Genus: Morone

Species: Americana

Which class of chordates are jawless fish?

In Phylum Chordata, jawless fish are grouped within Superclass Agnatha. Examples of jawless fish include lampreys and hagfish, which combined total about 120 different species.

What class is the fish in?

Fish are a complex group of animals that are not all simply lumped into once class. There are four basic groups; Bony Fish, Lobe finned fish, Cartelagenous fish and jawless fish, but they are all separate classes, all they have in common is the fact that they are in the phylum Chordata. This strange system stems from the fact that the word fish is a common name for swimming animals that have a certain look to them, but doesnt nessesarily represent any real genetic similarities.

What is the scientific name for Nassau grouper?

The scientific name for the Nassau grouper is Epinephelus striatus.

How did fish get their names?

Common names of fish are usually based on some characteristic of the fish and may often be connected to the fishes original habitat or taxonomic (scientific) name.

For example the (taxonomic named) "Betta splendens" is commonly called a "Betta". It is also called a Siamese Fighting fish (based on it's country of origin and its intolerance of others of the same species.

Different types of fish and their scientific names?

· Bicolor Angelfish: Centropyge (Genus) bicolor (Species) ,Sea

· Black Velvet Angelfish: Chaaetopyge melanosa , Sea

· Blue Angel fish: Holacanthus bermudensis , Sea

· Blue-faced Angel fish: Pomacanthus xanthometopon, Sea

· Copperband Butterflyfish: Chelmon rostratus , Sea

· Long-nosed Butterflyfish: Forcipiger flavissimus, Sea

· Heniochus diphreutes,Sea

· Bicolor blenny: Ecsenius bicolor , Sea

· Blackline fang blenny: Meiacanthus nigrolineatus ,Sea

· Red-lipped Blenny: Ophiblennius atlanticus,Sea

Is there a scientific name for shellfish not the fish but the family?

There is no specific scientific name for shellfish because shellfish is a non-scientific way of describing a large number of invertibrate food items such as lobster, scallops, muscles and shrimp. Mostly 'shellfish' are either molluscs or crustaceans.

What is the scientific name for the Giant Black Sea bass?

Stereolepis giga (from http://www.answers.com/topic/giant-sea-bass)

What is the scientific name of Tiger Fish?

Scientific names of this species: Danio rerio(most common), Brachydanio rerio, Cyprinus rerio, and Perilampus striatus (Riehl and Baensch, 1991) Common Names: Zebra danio, zebrafish, striped danio, rerio, lauputi, anju

What is the scientific name of a perch?

It depends which perch you are talking about. There are many fishes which are commonly called perch. In the United States, perhaps one of the more common true perches is the yellow perch, Perca flavescens, (Family Percidae, Order Perciformes). But there are numerous other perch-like fish within this order, including white perch (Morone americana, actually a type of bass, Family Moronidae), silver perch, (Bairdiella chrysoura, a drum in Family Sciaenidae), and the very large, invasive predatory fish the nile perch, from the Nile River (Lates niloticus, Family Latidae), which grows to over 400 pounds!

What is the scientific name for a puffer fish?

The scientific name for a puffer fish is Tetraodontidae.

Are whales classified as fish?

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

What is the scientific name for the angler fish?

The most common scientific name for the angler fish is Lophius Piscatorius. Another angler fish is the Black Devil and its' scientific name is Melanocetus johnsoni. One more is the Sargassum angler fish and its' scientific name is Histro Histro. The last one I will put here is the Painted Angler fish and its' scientific name is Antennarius pictus.

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Are dolphins cold blooded?

It depends on which kind of dolphin you are referring to.

The marine mammals are from the families Delphinida(oceanic dolphins - 30 species), Iniida (South American River Dolphins - 3 species), Lipotidae (Yangtze River dolphin - probably now extinct), Platanistidae (South Asian River Dolphins - 2 subspecies), and Pontoporiidae (La Plata Dolphin). Like all mammals they are warm-blooded.

The Coryphaena hippurus, aka Dolphin, common dolphinfish, Mahi-mahi, dorade coryphène, dorado, lampuga, llampuga, lampuka, lampuki, rakingo, calitos, ti-rone or maverikos - is a fish and cold-blooded.

What is the scientific name of fish?

fry

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Larvae for newly hatched, fry for newborn or free-swimming, pups for sharks and rays. There are other fish in which the term is different.