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Pisces 
AphiaID: 11676

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Superclass
Parent Gnathostomata
Sources  basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch vissen  [details]
English fish  [details]
Ukrainian Риби  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Class Actinopterygii
Class Elasmobranchii
Class Holocephali
Class Sarcopterygii

Class Osteichthyes accepted as Actinopterygii
Environment marine
Distribution Europe [details]
Link FishBase
Notes  Classification: Pisces is a group of Gnathostomata, containing the Actinopterygii, Elasmobranchii and Holocephali [details]

Validity: informal group [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:11676
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2006-07-06 07:36:42Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Pisces. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11676 on 2013-05-22
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