Freshwater fish, the Glossary
Freshwater fish are fish species that spend some or all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less than 1.05%.[1]
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82 relations: Adaptation, Anguillidae, Bigmouth buffalo, Bluegill, Body fluid, Body of water, Brook trout, Brown trout, Catfish, Centrarchidae, Chinese paddlefish, Coldwater fish, Crappie, Cutbow, Cutthroat trout, Dabry's sturgeon, Dam, Deforestation, Elevation, Environmental Working Group, Excretion, Fish, Fish migration, Fish scale, Fishing in India, Fresh water, Freshwater biology, Freshwater fish of Australia, Gill, Greenback cutthroat trout, Habitat destruction, Hybrid (biology), Insular biogeography, Kidney, Lake, Lake ecosystem, Lake Victoria, Land change science, Largemouth bass, List of fish common names, List of fish of Oklahoma, List of fishes in Bangladesh, List of fishes of Great Britain, List of fishes of Idaho, List of fishes of West Virginia, List of freshwater fishes of Greece, List of freshwater fishes of Korea, List of freshwater fishes of Maryland, List of freshwater fishes of Oregon, List of freshwater fishes of Washington, ... Expand index (32 more) »
Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
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Anguillidae
The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels.
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Bigmouth buffalo
The bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) is a fish native to North America that is in decline.
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Bluegill
The bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or, as is common in Texas, "copper nose", is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and wetlands east of the Rocky Mountains.
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Body fluid
Body fluids, bodily fluids, or biofluids, sometimes body liquids, are liquids within the body of an organism.
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Body of water
A body of water or waterbody is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet.
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Brook trout
The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus Salvelinus of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada.
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Brown trout
The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range.
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Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
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Centrarchidae
Centrarchidae, better known as sunfishes, is a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes (formerly belonging to the deprecated order Centrarchiformes), native only to North America.
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Chinese paddlefish
The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius;: literal translation: "white sturgeon"), also known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China.
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Coldwater fish
The term coldwater fish can have different meanings in different contexts.
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Crappie
Crappies are two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae (sunfishes).
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Cutbow
The cutbow (Oncorhynchus clarkii × mykiss) is an interspecific fertile hybrid between rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and cutthroat trout (O. clarkii).
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Cutthroat trout
The cutthroat trout is a fish species of the family Salmonidae native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean, Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin in North America.
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Dabry's sturgeon
Dabry's sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus), also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae.
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Dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.
Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
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Elevation
The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
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Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American activist group that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of agricultural subsidies, toxic chemicals, drinking water pollutants, and corporate accountability.
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Excretion
Excretion is elimination of metabolic waste, which is an essential process in all organisms.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Fish migration
Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another.
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Fish scale
A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish.
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Fishing in India
Fishing in India is a major sector within the economy of India contributing 1.07% of its total GDP.
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Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
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Freshwater biology
Freshwater biology is the scientific biological study of freshwater ecosystems and is a branch of limnology.
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Freshwater fish of Australia
Freshwater fish of Australia are limited to approximately 280 species, even though the Australian continent is larger than the contiguous United States.
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Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ that many aquatic organisms use to extract dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide.
Greenback cutthroat trout
The greenback cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii stomias) is the easternmost subspecies of cutthroat trout.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Insular biogeography
Insular biogeography or island biogeography is a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness and diversification of isolated natural communities.
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Kidney
In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.
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Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
Lake ecosystem
A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical interactions.
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Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.
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Land change science
Land change science refers to the interdisciplinary study of changes in climate, land use, and land cover.
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Largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) is a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico.
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List of fish common names
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups.
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List of fish of Oklahoma
There are over 177 species of fish in the US state of Oklahoma, at least 7% of which are not native.
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List of fishes in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a country with thousands of rivers and ponds, and is notable as a fish-loving nation, acquiring the name "Machh-e Bhat-e Bangali" (which means, Bengali by fish and rice).
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List of fishes of Great Britain
This is a list of fish found in and around Great Britain, in both fresh water (lakes, rivers, streams and man-made pools) and salt water.
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List of fishes of Idaho
The following list of known freshwater fish species, subspecies, and hybrids occurring in the U.S. state of Idaho is taken from Wydoski and Whitney (2003).
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List of fishes of West Virginia
The state of West Virginia has a wide variety of freshwater fish species in its rivers, lakes, and streams.
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List of freshwater fishes of Greece
The following is a list of the freshwater fish species of Greece.
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List of freshwater fishes of Korea
This is a list of species of fish found in the rivers and lakes of the Korean Peninsula.
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List of freshwater fishes of Maryland
This is a list of freshwater fish living wild in the US state of Maryland.
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List of freshwater fishes of Oregon
The following list of freshwater fish species and subspecies known to occur in the U.S. state of Oregon is primarily taken from "Inland Fishes of Washington" by Richard S. Wydoski and Richard R. Whitney (2003), but some species and subspecies have been added from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) website.
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List of freshwater fishes of Washington
The following list of known freshwater fish species, subspecies, and hybrids occurring in Washington state is taken from Wydoski and Whitney(2003).
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List of U.S. state fish
This is a list of official U.S. state fishes.
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Marine habitat
A marine habitat is a habitat that supports marine life.
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Muskellunge
The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), often shortened to muskie, musky, ski, or lunge, is a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America.
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Nile perch
The Nile perch (Lates niloticus), also known as the African snook, Goliath perch, African barramundi, Goliath barramundi, Giant lates or the Victoria perch, is a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Northern pike
The northern pike (Esox lucius) is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (pikes).
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Osmotic concentration
Osmotic concentration, formerly known as osmolarity, is the measure of solute concentration, defined as the number of osmoles (Osm) of solute per litre (L) of solution (osmol/L or Osm/L).
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS or PFASs) are a group of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chain; there are 7 million such chemicals according to PubChem.
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Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid
Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) (conjugate base perfluorooctanesulfonate) is a chemical compound having an eight-carbon fluorocarbon chain and a sulfonic acid functional group, and thus it is a perfluorosulfonic acid and a perfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS).
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Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.
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Pond
A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.
Rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia.
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Regional Red List
A Regional Red List is a report of the threatened status of species within a certain country or region.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
River ecosystem
River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts. Freshwater fish and River ecosystem are limnology.
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Salinity
Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity).
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Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
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Saltwater fish
Saltwater fish, also called marine fish or sea fish, are fish that live in seawater.
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Sea lamprey
The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is a parasitic lamprey native to the Northern Hemisphere.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Speciation
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.
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Sun Belt
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered stretching across the Southeast and Southwest.
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Threatened species
A threatened species is any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future.
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Three-spined stickleback
The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a fish native to most inland and coastal waters north of 30°N.
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Trout
Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.
Walleye
The walleye (Sander vitreus, synonym Stizostedion vitreum), also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
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Yangtze
Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.
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Yellow perch
The yellow perch (Perca flavescens), commonly referred to as perch, striped perch or preacher is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America.
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Yellowfin cutthroat trout
The yellowfin cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii macdonaldi) is an extinct subspecies or variety of the cutthroat trout, a North American freshwater fish.
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100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species
100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species is a list of invasive species compiled in 2000 from the Global Invasive Species Database, a database of invasive species around the world.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_fish
Also known as Fresh water fish, Freshwaterfish.
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