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Fish absolutely exist cladistically, OP just didn't want to admit they're a land dwelling fish. You believe the implications of cladistics or you don't, cowards.
I'd also argue it's relatively easy to separate fish-fish from land fish from land fish that became sea fish again to bully the fish fish.
Is fish just another name for vertebrates ?
Nah. You could have a fish that evolved out of having a spine (see: Chuck Schumer) but you can't evolve out of a clade.
Seems so. Wikipedia tells there are seven classes of vertebrates:
So yes, fishes is the same thing as vertebrates.
Probably because if you were a vertebrate living in the sea, you needed some sort of gills and fins and such. And those are what makes people assume something is a "fish".
You sound exactly like a specimen from the Dunning-Krueger clade
I'm not gonna lie man this one sounded better in your head
Considering that you misspelled the name of a common term and that's not a biological classification I'm going to stand by what the doctorates who taught my zoology courses said.