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Fish has been listed as a level-3 vital article in Science. If you can improve it, please do. This article has been rated as GA-Class.

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April 1, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
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Taxobox vs infobox

Since "fish" isn't a taxonomic term, should the taxobox be replaced with an infobox? User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 17:58, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

The article doesn't use a taxobox, it uses paraphyletic group --Epipelagic (talk) 21:57, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Not a great opening sentence.

A fish is any member of a group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. To be honest, this is not a great sentence with which to start the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.148.9.204 (talk) 22:04, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Well please suggest one you consider is better. DrChrissy ^(talk) 22:30, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

I can't be sure what the above commenter's problem with the opening sentence was, but I think this sentence is better: "A fish is any gill-bearing acquatic craniate animal that lacks limbs with digits". "Any member of a group consisting of all animals with these properties" is a really clunky way of saying "any animal these properties" 130.225.188.33 (talk) 13:53, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I've made the change. --Epipelagic (talk) 16:55, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Sensory organ

Hi,
Under "Sensory organs" it is mentioned that e.g. sharks can spot e/m fields with a special organ. Why not either mention the organ by name or link to its page?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullae_of_Lorenzini
Also, is this article protected? Couldn't see any "edit" tab. If so, sorry to disturb :)
T88.89.5.214 (talk) 23:19, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Pic deleted

I have added a picture of fish Market of bengali people. But without giving any reason this pic was removed. My question is why? Here I'm posting the pic :

File:Fish market of Bengali.jpg

Fish Market of Bengali people's , Agartala, India

শক্তিশেল (talk) 19:02, 7 February 2018 (UTC) শক্তিশেল (talk) 19:02, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

User:Mean_as_custard, please enlighten me why you removed the picture. Thanks. শক্তিশেল (talk) 19:08, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

The article is about the aquatic creature, nothing to do with markets. . . Mean as custard (talk) 22:31, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

How many?

How many "fish" are estimated to exist? In: Oceans? Lakes? Rivers? I tried to find the answer the first question, and got only so far; it might be of interest. Hopefully they aren't counting plankton (kidding), or micro-fishes, lol. Misty MH (talk) 05:04, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

How many valid species of fish are there ?. You can get subdivisions for marine or so on using this page or the search function (start here). Jts1882 | talk 20:49, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Wrong fish in hadal zone

The lead, 5th paragraph, says:

"... even hadal depths of the deepest oceans (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish)..."

Neither gulpers nor anglerfish have ever been recorded in the hadal zone. Both families are primarily bathyal, although some species range into the abyssal zone. The few families that have been recorded in the hadal zone are listed in this article (c. 3/5 down the page). The primary and generally dominant family are the snailfish. The next best example would be cusk-eel. The remaining families known from the hadal zone would be less suitable as examples, either because it's only a single species from the family (grenadiers), they're marginal in the zone (hadal limit is disputed, 6000 m or 6500 m) or their record is questionable/abnormal (pearlfish). 62.107.211.90 (talk) 20:57, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Is there fish that can walk?

There is, there are so many species of fish, and weird fish, there is so much more fish that we can discover!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richieboiagve (talk • contribs) 15:38, 26 February 2021 (UTC)