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Fish Can Be Classified Into Three Groups: Shellfish Is A Culinary and Fisheries Term For Exoskeleton-Bearing

Fish are defined as gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. Fish can be classified into three main groups - white fish including cod and hake, oily fish containing high amounts of oil in their tissues, and shellfish which are exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates like mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Pictures are provided of examples of white fish, oily fish, and shellfish.

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Fish Can Be Classified Into Three Groups: Shellfish Is A Culinary and Fisheries Term For Exoskeleton-Bearing

Fish are defined as gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. Fish can be classified into three main groups - white fish including cod and hake, oily fish containing high amounts of oil in their tissues, and shellfish which are exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates like mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Pictures are provided of examples of white fish, oily fish, and shellfish.

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Fish

A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist


of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.



Fish can be classified into three groups

White fish
Oily fish
Shell fish


White fish

Whitefish or white fish is a fisheries term referring to several species
of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, but also hake pollock or
others.


Oily fish

Oily fish have oil in their tissues and in the belly cavity around the gut.
Their fillets contain up to 30 percent oil, although this figure varies both
within and between species.

Shell fish

Shellfish is a culinary and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing
aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species
of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.






Pictures


White fish



Oily fish





Shell fish

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