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Fish


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Fish are cold-blooded vertebrates found in the world’s fresh and salt waters. Their bodies are generally fusiform (tapered to each end) with paired fins and covered by skin adorned with either bony or toothlike (placoid) scales. Respiration is generally through gills. Most fish also have a swim bladder, a gas-filled organ used to adjust swimming depth.

The museum houses a range of living species, from the primitive, jawless lampreys and hagfishes through the cartilaginous sharks, skates and rays to the abundant and diverse bony fishes. The collection also includes a number of fossils and casts of the prehistoric fish that lived in the sea during the Devonian period (415-360 million years ago), a period best known for its abundance and diversity of fish.

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Specimens by alphabetical order:


3-SPINED STICKLEBACK
Angel shark
Bichir
Box fish
European bullhead
Flying fish
Garpike
Goosefish
Hagfish
Lamprey
Montagu's sea snail
Pacific hagfish
Queensland lungfish
Remora
Shanny
South american lungfish
Spiny shark
Thursius macrolepidotus
15-spined stickleback
Antiarch placoderm
Bitterling
Conger eel
European river lamprey
Four eyed fish
Ghost shark
Gunn's ancient vertebrae
Hatchetish
Long-spined porcupine
Mudskipper
Primitive jawless fish
Rat fish
Sawfish
Shark
Spiny dogfish
Spotted Snakehead
Transparent hatchetfish
Yarrell's Blenny
African lungfish
Atlantic hagfish
Bowfin
Devonian fish
Five-bearded rockling
Garfish
Goldfish
Haddock
Japanese eel
Lungfish
Oyster toadfish
Primitive shark
Razorfish
Seahorse
Sharpnose shark
Spiny fish
Sturgeon
Viviparous blenny
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