WoRMS taxon details
Pisces
Class Actinopterygii
Class Coelacanthi
Class Elasmobranchii
Class Holocephali
Class Actinopteri accepted as Actinopterygii (spelling variation)
Class Coelacanthi
Class Elasmobranchii
Class Holocephali
Class Actinopteri accepted as Actinopterygii (spelling variation)
marine, brackish, fresh
Not documented
Taxonomy Informal group
Taxonomy Fish are a paraphyletic group. So Pisces will no longer be part of the formal classification.
Although variable with time,...
Taxonomy Informal group [details]
Taxonomy Fish are a paraphyletic group. So Pisces will no longer be part of the formal classification.
Although variable with time,...
Taxonomy Fish are a paraphyletic group. So Pisces will no longer be part of the formal classification.
Although variable with time, fishes contain also lampreys and hagfishes (Cyclostomata revived). Such groups as Agnatha and Cephalaspidomorphi are paraphyletic now as originally defined, because of new insights on some fossils.
Pisces = Vertebrata (= Craniata now) - Tetrapoda. [details]
Although variable with time, fishes contain also lampreys and hagfishes (Cyclostomata revived). Such groups as Agnatha and Cephalaspidomorphi are paraphyletic now as originally defined, because of new insights on some fossils.
Pisces = Vertebrata (= Craniata now) - Tetrapoda. [details]
WoRMS (2021). Pisces. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11676 on 2021-05-07
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basis of record
Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Taxonomy Informal group [details]Taxonomy Fish are a paraphyletic group. So Pisces will no longer be part of the formal classification.
Although variable with time, fishes contain also lampreys and hagfishes (Cyclostomata revived). Such groups as Agnatha and Cephalaspidomorphi are paraphyletic now as originally defined, because of new insights on some fossils.
Pisces = Vertebrata (= Craniata now) - Tetrapoda. [details]
