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Fish

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cold blooded vertebrate

Broader Terms

Chordata

Narrower Terms

Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes

Related Terms

alternatives to animals in research, aquatic organism

Scope Note

any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated.

Facts

  • any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills.
  • the flesh of fish used as food
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