The convention in the scientific world that classifies fish is covered in this article on information on tropical fish along with details on the founder of it and some reasons why people have tropical fish in their aquarium. Learn about the origins of tropical fish keeping and its history. And the naming processes by which fish are classified in this tropical fish information article.
Today increasing numbers keep tropical fish in an aquarium and aquarists ages range from senior citizens through to young children. Tropical fish need more looking after than cold water fish such as the goldfish and it is this additional caring factor that I believe attracts folk to tropical fish.
Because tropical fish are more colored than their cold water companions, the aquarium keeper has a bigger selection to choose from and as they are usually smaller you can get more fish in your aquarium.In addition you will probably not need to import them from their original habitat because they are bred in captivity especially for you.
There is a fair chance that your fish will not look the same as the original speies due to years of continual breeding. For example the checkered dwarf cichlid won’t have originated from Venezuela. However wild stock can be imported when breeding has not been successful in captivity.
All aquarium species are known by a common name and some may have numerous names, all of which may be used by aquarists and pet shops on a day to day basis, which may be useful, but if you want a accurate identification of the fish then they are not useful.
A Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician, Carl Linnaeus established the formal system of naming species called binomial nomenclature. He was regarded as a leading light with respect to taxonomy and new ecology.
The binomial nomenclature identifies and establishes the relationship between groups of animals and plants and has been utilised for over three hundred and fifty years. Taxonomy is the science of finding, describing and categorizing organisms and it has seven major groupings, in the following order, Kingdom, Phylum, Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
However, as its name suggests, the binomial nomenclature process only uses the last two identifiers, the genus and the species names. Although each identification is stated in Latin it could be described as the ‘Latin name’ of the species but biologists like to call it the ‘scientific name’.
Ichthyology is a zoological term for the study of fish and as it progressed, occassionally fish have been placed in differing classifications. But due to the fact that the new identification system is not followed by all aquarists, you can now and again end up with a fish with 2 scientific names.
In the event that there is no specific descriptor for the fish of a known genus then the scientific name would be the generic name (the genus) with species added on.
Every year, around 250 new scientifc names are given to freshly discovered species (fish database results) and by the beginning of 2010, more than 31,000 species were listed. If you add up all other vertebrates: amphibians, mammals, birds and reptiles, the total is less than the number of fish species around.
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