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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Is fish just another name for vertebrates ?

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Seems so. Wikipedia tells there are seven classes of vertebrates:

  • Agnatha (jawless fishes, paraphyletic)
  • Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
  • Osteichthyes (bony fishes, paraphyletic)
  • Amphibia (amphibians)
  • Reptilia (reptiles, paraphyletic)
  • Aves (birds)
  • Mammalia (mammals)

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".

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