[MR.FREEZ]

does anyone have a good link to a list of the latin names of fish?

im pickin it up slowly but surely but id like to see a nice link were it

breaks it down into a family tree like style. i find them doing profiles for

individual fish but i was wondering if theres something easier out there

that someone may have book marked or something

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[acestro]

Good question Freez. There are tons of sites (Fishbase, etc.) with the scientific names and a lot with "trees". The trees are still (and probably will always be) somewhat in debate. The higher up relationships tend to have less changes, so I'd say this site is pretty good:

http://www.bio.utexas.edu/courses/bio354l/...l#_Toc481891373

It has most of the "modern" fishes, excluding the gars, bowfin, sturgeon, paddlefish, etc.

I'll try to track down others/better sites.

This post has been edited by acestro: 31 July 2005 - 11:07 PM

[acestro]

You can also use this user-friendly site:

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Gnathostomata...roup=Vertebrata

Working down to teleosts (most 'modern' fishes), you get this:

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Teleostei&con...=Actinopterygii



Feel free to ask what any of the names represent. Also, if anyone else has other sites feel free to share those too.

[lemmywinks]

If there's ever anything I'm stumped on I'll usually use fishbase.org

Some of the names on there are outdated though, so double check online just to make sure

[MR.FREEZ]

:laugh:

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Siluriformes – catfishes

Diplomystidae

Hysidoridae

Ictaluridae - (Ameuridae)

Ictalurus

Prietella

Trogloglanis

Satan

< evil cat fish :laugh:

thanks ace, i hope i can learn the names now a bit faster rather then on a

fish by fish style

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If there's ever anything I'm stumped on I'll usually use fishbase.org

Some of the names on there are outdated though, so double check online just to make sure smile.gif

yeah i usually use fish base as a resource for all my profiles, but learing

them all is taking to long for me, and i want to get in on the I.D. fun

[acestro]

Knowing higher groups will definitely help the I.D. game (and real life I.D. too! ). Searching the higher groups (Orders, Families, etc.) will give you some traits for them.