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The word fish is applied indiscriminately to entirely separate classes of animal- cartilaginous one (Sharks/Rays); bony ones (Piranhas/Eels/Cod); and ones with skulls but no backbone or jaw (Hagfish and Lampreys). These classes split off from one another far longer ago than the different orders, families and genuses did from each other, meaning a salmon for example has more in common with (and is more closely related to) a human than a hagfish.
Fish is a convenient umbrella term to describe an aquatic vertebrate that is not a mammal or a turtle. It's equivalent to calling bats birds because they happen to fly.
The relationship between a lamprey and a shark is no closer than that between a salamander and a camel.
However if you're just looking for the Latin word for fish it's Pisces. Please bear in mind whales and seals were fish until the 16th Century.
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