Tuesday, May 20, 2014

FOURTH DAY: SPECIAL PART, FISH!

SPECIAL PART: FISH

Fish are animals which live in the water. Their processing of breath consists in extracting oxygen from water using their gills. Fish are composed of different parts: two chambered-heart, operculum, swim bladder, scales, fins, lips and eyes. It can be appreciated the main parts of fish above:


  
Are you curious?

How many fish species there can be in the world?

It is estimated that there are 32.700 species of fish in the whole world more or less. Exits a great variety and diversity within fish species. Therefore, there can be found some fish groups:

 Fishes     
jawless

lampreys Boca de lamprea.1 - Aquarium Finisterrae.JPG


hagfish Pacific hagfish Myxine.jpg


   cartilaginous   

sharks Tiger shark.png


rays Pastinachus sephen Day.jpg


chimaera Callorhinchus callorhynchus.JPG


bony
lobe finned

lungfish Barramunda.jpg


coelacanths Coelacanth-bgiu.png


ray finned

chondrosteans Acipenser oxyrhynchus.jpg


holosteans Amia calva1.jpg


teleosts Bluefin-big.jpg








TWO KINDS OF FISH WHICH CAN BE INTRODUCED IN AN AQUARIUM


 FRESH WATER FISH  

Freshwater fish are fish that spend some or all their lives in fresh water. The salinity of water what they live is under 0,05 %

 For instance the places which they live are:

River
Lake






Freshwater fish survive thanks to physiological adaptations. It is important to mention that 41,24 % of fish are found in fresh water.

There can be seen different kinds of freshwater fish above:






AFRICAN JEWELFISH





AFRICAN JEWELFISH




 BLACK TETRA





LIVINGSTON´S CICHILID                     
                                                                                                                       


SALTWATER FISH

Saltwater fish are fish that spend some or all of their lives in salt water. This water is composed with a salinity of more than 0,05%.

The places which live saltwater fish are the following ones: Oceans 
                                                                                     Salt rivers

























Some examples of saltwater fish:




CLOWNFISH

                                                                                                ANTHIAS FISH 










BUTTERFLY FISH











                        DRAGONETS
                                                                                                            




DOTTYBACKS








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