• Using synchrotron microtomography, a team of Swedish, Czech, French and UK researchers led by Sweden's Uppsala University took a detailed look at a collection of 400-million-year-old fossils of acanthothoracids - an early fish group closely related to the very first jawed vertebrates - found near the Prague Basin in the Czech Republic a century ago. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Even though acanthothoracids are among the most primitive of all jawed vertebrates, their teeth are in some ways far more like modern ones than arthrodire dentitions. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Fish live in this world of water and are the most numerous of the vertebrates, or animals with backbones. (ufl.edu)
  • This class contains fish such as the coelacanths and the lungfishes along with all terrestrial vertebrates from cows to humans. (ufl.edu)
  • Fishes are members of a large, heterogeneous group of vertebrates living in a wide variety of aquatic habitats. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • There are slightly more species of fishes than of all other vertebrates combined. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • As the term is used here, fishes may be defined as cold-blooded vertebrates with gills throughout life, and limbs, if any, in the shape of fins. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Entelognathus primordialis is one of the earliest, and certainly the most primitive, fossil fish that has the same jawbones as modern bony fishes and land vertebrates including ourselves," says the co-author of the study, Min Zhu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. (ozscience.com)
  • As Dr Matt Friedman of Oxford University has commented: "Basically, as terrestrial vertebrates, we are a kind of very specialised, very bizarre fish that about 370 million years ago went on land and lost its fins. (ozscience.com)
  • and it should not be surprising that the endocrine glands and associated hormones of the human endocrine system have their counterparts in the endocrine systems of more primitive vertebrates. (tomsk.ru)
  • The discovery adds to the list of "missing links" that we've found between major animal groups, such Archaeopteryx, the bridge between dinosaurs and birds, Gogonasus, the bridge between fishes and amphibians, and Cynognathus, the bridge between reptiles and mammals. (ozscience.com)
  • This same structure of bones is found today in bony fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals, including humans. (ozscience.com)
  • Sarcopterygii, lobe-finned fishes, include coelacanths and lungfishes, as well as tetrapods, since some tetrapods (i.e. animals with four feet or limbs) are thought to have evolved from sarcopterygian fishes. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Despite substantial differences between the fossilized fish Tiktaalik and terrestrial tetrapods, many evolutionists insist the fish was a transitional form. (answersingenesis.org)
  • However, Zhang's most important contributions to science have been her studies of the cranial anatomy of the earliest sarcopterygians (lobe-finned fishes and tetrapods) from the Early Devonian deposits of Eastern Yunnan Province, namely Youngolepis and Diabolepis. (cas.cn)
  • their forms were transitional between lobe-finned fishes and true four-limbed tetrapods. (theinfolist.com)
  • Tetrapods have numerous anatomical and physiological features that are distinct from their aquatic fish ancestors. (theinfolist.com)
  • The conventional understanding has been that certain fish shimmied landwards roughly 370 million years ago as primitive, lizard-like animals known as tetrapods. (theseasideinstitute.org)
  • More advanced bony fish (such as the teleosts) stay afloat using a swim bladder, whereas sharks have neither lungs nor a swim bladder, and instead use a large fatty liver to help with buoyancy. (lifestylenews.net)
  • These faunas are quite characteristic and consist predominantly of primitive teleosts or higher bony fishes, some of which may be ancestral types of the modern groups. (cas.cn)
  • Familiar bony fishes such as goldfish, trout, and bass are members of the most advanced subgroup of bony fishes, the teleosts, which developed lungs and first invaded land. (tomsk.ru)
  • Any of various extinct primitive jawless fishes of the Ordovician through the Devonian periods, having bodies encased in an armor of bony plates. (yourdictionary.com)
  • The class Agnatha, or the jawless fishes, is the most primitive group. (tomsk.ru)
  • Now extinct, Paramblypterus duvernoyi possessed some very primitive features, most notably, its shark-like tail with a fleshy upper lobe. (timevaultgallery.com)
  • Furthermore, genetic experiments on living fish cannot tell us anything conclusive about the genomes of extinct fish. (answersingenesis.org)
  • David Menton, " Tiktaalik and the Fishy Story of Walking Fish, Part 2," Answers in Genesis, May 23, 2007, https://answersingenesis.org/extinct-animals/tiktaalik-and-the-fishy-story-of-walking-fish-part-2/ . (answersingenesis.org)
  • Most of these fish became extinct in the western Pacific, she notes, but a few, such as the coelacanth, still survive in the eastern Pacific. (cas.cn)
  • Today, this group of jawless fish is tiny, as most species are extinct, with only lampreys and sea lampreys remaining. (myplanetblog.com)
  • Their extinct cousin, the ostracoderm, also protected itself with bony shields and armor. (myplanetblog.com)
  • The body plan of anatomically modern coelacanths in comparison to that of primitive coelacanths and non-coelacanth sarcopterygians. (nature.com)
  • b - e ) Differences in caudal fin between anatomically modern coelacanths and primitive coelacanths. (nature.com)
  • There are only two kinds of lobe-finned fish alive today, lungfish and coelacanths . (animalfacts.net)
  • Most bony fish have two sets of paired fins. (ufl.edu)
  • In addition to two sets of paired fins, most bony fish have a caudal fin (tail fin), one or more dorsal fins (back fins) and an anal fin, which lies on the fish's underside, behind the anus and in front of the tail. (animalfacts.net)
  • Lungfish is any sarcopterygian fish of the taxon Dipnoi , characterized by platelike teeth and lobed, paired fins, with modern forms typified by functional lungs and the caudal fin confluent with the dorsal and anal fins. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • However, Nelson (2006), in his book Fishes of the World , while recognizing Coelacanthimorpha, designates Dipnotetrapodomorpha as the subclass with lungfish, and within that subclass recognizes two superorders of lungfishes, Dipterimorpha and Ceratodontimorpha. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Lungfish are best-known for retaining characteristics primitive within the bony fish, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii , including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed internal skeleton. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The bones of the skull roof in primitive lungfish are covered in a mineralized tissue called cosmine, but in post- devonian lungfishes, the skull roof is subdermal and the cosmine covering is lost. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Lungfish, which make up the subclass Dipnoi , are lobe-finned fish . (animalfacts.net)
  • The lungs of lungfish evolved from the lungs of the most primitive bony fish. (animalfacts.net)
  • Like most bony fish, lungfish have paired pectoral and pelvic fins. (animalfacts.net)
  • Today, lungs are only present in primitive bony fishes such as lungfish and African reedfishes. (lifestylenews.net)
  • The fish here in this fossil are well before the very first dinosaurs! (timevaultgallery.com)
  • These fish lived in a time not commonly known, before the first dinosaurs and at a point in time just before Earth's most devastating extinction event in all its history, the end of the Permian Period. (timevaultgallery.com)
  • To put in perspective just how old the Paramblypterus is, these primitive fish were around well before the very first dinosaurs, when trilobites still existed on our planet! (timevaultgallery.com)
  • It's suggested that all life comes from marine life , but the difference is sharks come from a line of cartilagenous fish whereas the dinosaurs come from bony fish instead. (dinosaurreport.com)
  • Here I am in the latter half of the interview describing the relationship between dinosaurs and fish with the help of two of our living primitive bony fishes: the aligator gar and the spotted gar. (piratelab.org)
  • These bottom-dwelling lake fish have survived for more than 200 million years, outliving the dinosaurs! (sheddaquarium.org)
  • Sharks are one of the earliest known jawed fishes. (ufl.edu)
  • Scientists think that the earliest bony fish had lungs. (animalfacts.net)
  • Here lie the remnants of myriad prehistoric marine animals, including placoderms, a prehistoric class of fish that represents some of our earliest jawed ancestors. (lifestylenews.net)
  • The sharks, rays, and chimaeras make up the second group of fish, the Class Chondrichthyes . (ufl.edu)
  • The bony fish differ from the Chondrichthyes because the bony fish have skeletons made of bone. (ufl.edu)
  • Chondrichthyes are cartilaginous fishes and include sharks and rays . (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Class Chondrichthyes and class Osteichthyes are jawed fishes that had their origins, millions of years ago, with the Agnatha. (tomsk.ru)
  • The Chondrichthyes are the cartilaginous fishes, such as sharks and rays, while the Osteichthyes are the bony fishes. (tomsk.ru)
  • A surprisingly large number of fishes, including most sharks and rays, have the ability to detect electrical impulses to help them escape capture and locate prey. (fishesofaustralia.net.au)
  • The bony fish representatives of this class, known as lobe-finned fish, are characterized by lobed paired fins, which are joined to the body by a single bone (Clack 2002). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Sarcopterygians also possess two dorsal fins with separate bases, as opposed to the single dorsal fin of actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • There are some bony fish that only have one set of paired fins and there are also bony fish that have no paired fins. (ufl.edu)
  • However, the fleshy fins of Tiktaalik do not attach to the bony pelvis and so could not support weight for walking. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Furthermore, the bones in the fins of these fossil fish do not resemble digits. (answersingenesis.org)
  • The Hairy Frogfish, known scientifically as Antennarius striatus, is a blob-like carnivore fish that doesn't swim, but rather walks on its wide fins, and can be found in the warm waters between Africa and Antarctica. (dimensions.com)
  • The third major group of fish is the Osteichthyes or the true bony fish, which is divided into two classes. (ufl.edu)
  • Being mainly carnivorous, their diet consists predominantly of small fish, but sometimes they will catch birds that stay close to the surface of the water. (delfinamazoncruises.com)
  • These immense creatures are members of a primitive group of carnivorous, bony-tonged fishes, called the Osteoglossidae. (delfinamazoncruises.com)
  • The Hairy Frogfish is carnivorous and will feast on other fish, either by stalking their prey or luring them with their extra-long spine they can wiggle as bait. (dimensions.com)
  • They are stalking, ambush predators known to move into the shallows at night to prey on fish and aquatic invertebrates such as crawfish, mollusks and aquatic insects. (chuckhawks.com)
  • To provide insights into the roles of repetitive elements in fish genomes, we conducted a comparative analysis of repetitive elements of 52 fish species in 22 orders in relation to their living aquatic environments. (syr.edu)
  • For a fish to move through aquatic medium, which is incompressible, it actually push it aside. (himachal.nic.in)
  • So yes, although 'fish' is biologically a word that's rather controversial between scientists and cladists, I think you and I will find that we will continue to use the term 'fish' to describe most aquatic animals. (theseasideinstitute.org)
  • A typical agnatha is an aquatic animal with primitive features. (myplanetblog.com)
  • Specifically, class II transposons appear to be more abundant in freshwater bony fish than in marine bony fish when phylogenetic relationship is not considered. (syr.edu)
  • In contrast, marine bony fish harbor more tandem repeats than freshwater species. (syr.edu)
  • Freshwater habitats of fishes are diverse, including hot springs, cold torrential mountain streams, deep lakes and saline waters (artwork by Karen Klitz). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • In the tropics, there are many brilliantly coloured freshwater and marine fishes, but those in Canadian waters, as in other northern areas, are generally drab. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • There tends to be more variation in colour among populations of the same species of northern freshwater fishes than among tropical fishes. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • While the freshwater fish doesn't drink water- the marine fish drinks large quantities of water. (himachal.nic.in)
  • Since the liquid in a freshwater fish's body is saltier (dense) than the surrounding water, the freshwater fish is in constant danger of soaking up water and swelling. (himachal.nic.in)
  • Why can't saltwater fish live in freshwater? (dimensions.com)
  • Saltwater fish are not able to live in freshwater because their bodies are concentrated from salt solution. (dimensions.com)
  • Saltwater fish would not be able to osmoregulate correctly in freshwater. (dimensions.com)
  • What is the largest freshwater fish in the world? (dimensions.com)
  • This freshwater fish has been declared endangered since 2004, due to the demand for its eggs that are sold as caviar. (dimensions.com)
  • What do freshwater fish eat? (dimensions.com)
  • The diet of a freshwater fish depends on its habitat, species, as well as the ecosystem they live in. (dimensions.com)
  • Freshwater fish can carry a carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore diet depending on their species. (dimensions.com)
  • Herbivore freshwater fish eat plants, algae, as well as other vegetable matter. (dimensions.com)
  • Freshwater fish can't live in saltwater because it is too salty for them. (dimensions.com)
  • Freshwater fish can only survive in accordance to how much salinity their body can handle. (dimensions.com)
  • This jawless fish can tolerate both saltwater and freshwater environments, and its life cycle includes both. (myplanetblog.com)
  • Most fishes possess a swim or air bladder which helps them attain neutral buoyancy in water (Corel Professional Photos). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • In most bony fish, the lungs have evolved into swim bladders. (animalfacts.net)
  • These fish use their swim bladders to keep themselves afloat. (animalfacts.net)
  • Some bony fish use their swim bladders for breathing air. (animalfacts.net)
  • How Fishes Swim? (himachal.nic.in)
  • Each eye of this four eyed fish is situated on top of the head in such a way that it can swim with half of the eye out of water, often ducking in water or moistening the eyeball. (himachal.nic.in)
  • The first class is the more primitive of the two classes and is called the Sarcopterygii . (ufl.edu)
  • While the fine details of the bony skeleton were uncovered, soft tissues in the fossils dissolved away. (lifestylenews.net)
  • pelvic girdle The pelvis (plural pelves or pelvises) is the lower part of the trunk, between the abdomen and the thighs (sometimes also called pelvic region), together with its embedded skeleton (sometimes also called bony pelvis, or pelvic skeleton). (theinfolist.com)
  • They were the most abundant and diverse fishes of the Devonian Period (419-359 million years ago)-but died out at the end in a mass extinction event. (lifestylenews.net)
  • Our work used this same technology to show, for the first time, the presence of a liver, stomach and intestines in a Devonian fish. (lifestylenews.net)
  • Our new research has revealed the soft organ anatomy of a Devonian arthrodire fish. (lifestylenews.net)
  • The first fish were primitive jawless forms (agnathans) which appeared in the Early Cambrian, but remained generally rare until the Silurian and Devonian when they underwent a rapid evolution. (theseasideinstitute.org)
  • We have shown that the mechanism of pelvic muscle formation in bony fish is transitional between that in sharks and in our tetrapod ancestors. (theseasideinstitute.org)
  • Although fish have gills, the presence of lungs in some fish can help with buoyancy, which is needed to sink and rise in the water. (lifestylenews.net)
  • Miguashaia resembles primitive sarcopterygians such as Psarolepis and Styloichthys in having elongated postorbital portion (red). (nature.com)
  • The work by Vaškaninová and colleagues suggests the jaws and teeth of acanthothoracids, and the way their teeth grew, shared more similarities with bony fish, sharks and even land animals than another early fish group, the arthrodires. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • The fish belonging to this group have no jaws. (ufl.edu)
  • The bony fish differ from the Agnatha because they have jaws. (ufl.edu)
  • Fishes include jawless species (Agnathans), such as hagfishes and lampreys , and species with jaws (Gnathostomata). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The first bony fish did not have jaws and had a primitive spinal column. (dimensions.com)
  • Jaws and faces were a key development in vertebrate evolution, and the ramifications of this extends beyond fish and into the roots of our own family tree-our lineage seriously began with these ancient fish. (ozscience.com)
  • Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fish related to gars with common regional names that include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, cypress trout and choupique. (chuckhawks.com)
  • These fish had scales and bone shields or plates of bone to protect themselves from external enemies. (myplanetblog.com)
  • These remains show these animals losing their hind limbs, hydrodynamic bodies (like those of modern whales) while presenting primitive bone structure aspects. (recentzone.com)
  • Histologically, osteoblastomas are similar to osteoid osteomas, producing both osteoid and primitive woven bone amidst fibrovascular connective tissue. (medscape.com)
  • Most bony fish have scales, some have armor plating, and others, such as the catfish, lack any kind of covering over the skin and thus are completely naked. (ufl.edu)
  • These two superorders of dipnoans are characterized by fish with platelike teeth, suitable for crushing and grinding. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • For instance, the teeth of a primitive whale (Archaeoceti: Basilosauridae), the oldest in Europe, have been found here. (depositsmag.com)
  • The developmental relationship between teeth and dermal odontodes in the most primitive bony fish Lophosteus. (fossiilid.info)
  • Attacks by fishes, like morays and conger eels are invariably defensive by fishes that have the teeth that can produce a formidable bite. (fishesofaustralia.net.au)
  • pelycosaur Pelycosaur ( ) is an older term for basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsids, excluding the therapsids and their descendants. (theinfolist.com)
  • Most of its body is cartilage, but some of its ancestors had skeletons and bony scales. (myplanetblog.com)
  • The Paramblypterus fish was a primitive osteichthyan (bony fish) and a member of the actinopterygians or ray-finned fish. (timevaultgallery.com)
  • Agnatha is a group of jawless fish, of which there are only a few extant species. (myplanetblog.com)
  • Skate and rays move by undulation of their greatly enlarged sidefins, which gives them appearance of flying through water some flattened fish crawl on the bottom like sea robin while some crawl right out of the water on the beach like mud skipper. (himachal.nic.in)
  • There is one pectoral fin on each side of a bony fish's body. (animalfacts.net)
  • Salt-water fish's liquids are less salty (dense) than surrounding water and fish is in constant danger of dehydration. (himachal.nic.in)
  • The water, tending to return to its original position, now flows back along the fish's narrowing side, closing in at the tail and helping the fish to move forward. (himachal.nic.in)
  • Bony fish first appeared between 530 to 410 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion. (dimensions.com)
  • Pikaia had a primitive notochord, a structure that could have developed into a vertebral column later. (theseasideinstitute.org)
  • Fishes that are even more primitive than arthrodires, such as the jawless lamprey, have their heart close to their liver. (lifestylenews.net)
  • In addition, class I transposons appear to be more abundant in primitive species such as cartilaginous fish and lamprey than in bony fish. (syr.edu)
  • Herbivore saltwater fish consume both microalgae and macroalgae as well as seagrasses. (dimensions.com)
  • Only when the amount of poison in a fish reaches a critical concentration does it have the devastating effect on humans who may consume affected fishes. (fishesofaustralia.net.au)
  • Acanthothoracid dentitions are attached to jaw bones, as in bony fish and land animals. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Except for the mandible , all of the bones of the skull are joined by sutures - synarthrodial (immovable) joints formed by bony ossification , with Sharpey's fibres permitting some flexibility. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Nature, evolutionist fish experts Ahlberg and Clack pointed out that "although these small distal bones bear some resemblance to tetrapod digits in terms of their function and range of movement, they are still very much components of a fin. (answersingenesis.org)
  • The Gogo fish fossils used in this study were discovered within rocks found in the Kimberley. (lifestylenews.net)
  • Fish fossils from near Fitzroy Crossing were first reported from Gogo Station in the 1940s. (lifestylenews.net)
  • Don't confuse this fish fossil with the extremely common, much later Eocene fish fossils from the Green River Formation in Wyoming. (timevaultgallery.com)
  • Permian fish fossils are immeasurably MORE RARE than Green River fish fossils! (timevaultgallery.com)
  • The large slab shows large group of assembled fish fossils all originally found in the same location and layer. (timevaultgallery.com)
  • While there's an abundance of fish fossils from about 420 million years ago, the ancient fossil record gets scarce farther back at about 480 million years ago, when fish are believed to have first appeared. (theseasideinstitute.org)
  • Chimaeras are more fish-like with soft bodies and no scales. (ufl.edu)
  • Fish need to osmoregulate or maintain the right amount of water in the bodies. (dimensions.com)
  • Get up close with these primitive giants, feeling the leathery texture of the sturgeon's skin and the hard bony plates that encase their bodies. (sheddaquarium.org)
  • Miguashaia ( b ) resembles primitive rhipidistians such as Glyptolepis and Osteolepis in having a heterocercal tail. (nature.com)
  • The Paramblypterus was very primitive fish had an asymmetrical tail with the longer upper lobe having a small edge of fin and the rest being fleshy, covered with heavy scales like the rest of the body. (timevaultgallery.com)
  • The fish can do this by wiggling back & forth in a snake like motion, pushing water aside by the forward motion of its head, first to the left than do the right, also with the curve of its body and finally with its flexible tail. (himachal.nic.in)
  • From head to tail, fishes are generally covered by flexible armour of rounded overlapping plates called Scales . (himachal.nic.in)
  • Tracing the origins and distribution of these fish is a very exciting endeavour," she says. (cas.cn)
  • Understanding the origin of bony fishes is inextricably linked to understanding our own origins because we're bony fishes. (ozscience.com)
  • Using serial thin sectioning and enlarged wax models, she investigated in exquisite detail the fine structures of fishes that lived about 400 million years ago. (cas.cn)
  • The body shape of the jawless fish resembles that of a long worm without scales, and it can grow to over a meter in length. (myplanetblog.com)
  • Some bony fish have one other characteristic that separates them from the other groups. (ufl.edu)
  • Poisons in fishes have been acquired in the course of evolution and are therefore a characteristic of the species or, as with ciguatera, are produced by a micro-organism and accumulated through the food chain. (fishesofaustralia.net.au)
  • In size and thickness, scales may vary greatly, from those of mahseer , which is reported to have scales (Fish size over 12 feet) as large as man's head to the microscopic one of common eel. (himachal.nic.in)
  • Few fishes especially catfishes have no scales at all. (himachal.nic.in)
  • Although bowfin are highly evolved, they are often referred to as 'primitive fish,' because they have retained some morphological characteristics of their early ancestors. (chuckhawks.com)
  • The nostrils of most bony fish are not connected to their mouths. (animalfacts.net)
  • Their jawbones resemble those of bony fish and seem to be directly ancestral to our own. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • These intriguing giants owe their air breathing ability to their primitive lung and gill system, which also allows them to breathe underwater. (delfinamazoncruises.com)
  • Sharks, like bony fish, breath (respire) when water passes through their mouth, over their gills, and out through their gill slits. (ufl.edu)
  • It is believed that the first bony fish appeared along with the placoderms, who were the first jawed fish that evolved from their gill arches. (dimensions.com)
  • The 3D preserved heart of a placoderm fish from Gogo. (lifestylenews.net)
  • nov., a placoderm fish and zone fossil from the Emsian of Belarus and Estonia. (fossiilid.info)
  • According to research published yesterday in the journal Nature , a very ancient group of jawed fish called the placoderm antiarchs were getting intimate long before their future ancestors opted for external fertilization. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Entelognathus provides evidence that placoderms were actually the ancestors of all 30,000 species of living fish fauna today. (ozscience.com)
  • The first ancestors of fish, or animals that were probably closely related to fish, were Pikaia, Haikouichthys and Myllokunmingia . (theseasideinstitute.org)
  • Though shapes of fishes differ widely but in general they are boat shaped which facilitate their movement in water. (himachal.nic.in)
  • Conclusions: The enriched association of specific categories of repetitive elements with fish habitats suggests the importance of repetitive elements in genome evolution and their potential roles in fish adaptation to their living environments. (syr.edu)
  • This hands-on encounter allows you to learn about how we interact with this cartilaginous fish, and how we can protect the sturgeon's home-The Great Lakes. (sheddaquarium.org)
  • This group is the most primitive of the three groups of fish. (ufl.edu)
  • The living representatives of this group survive as parasites and scavengers on other fish. (ufl.edu)
  • In her current studies, Zhang is working to understand the species distribution pattern of fish across the Pacific Ocean - a distribution that reached its maximum during the Eocene epoch, between 34 million and 56 million years ago. (cas.cn)
  • The first fish appeared about 510 million years ago. (dinosaurreport.com)
  • The first appearance of these fishes was about 470 million years ago. (myplanetblog.com)
  • About 990 species of fish in Canada are confined to the marine waters of the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans (artwork by Karen Klitz). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Fishes range in size from a whale shark, exceeding 12 m, to a tiny, 8-10 mm minnow, goby or schindleriid. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The gigantic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) and the smallest fish Philippine goby (Pandaka). (ukessays.com)