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Fish swimming past Edward Kenway

Fish are aquatic vertebrate animals[1][2] commonly defined by the presence of a cranium,[3][4] fins for locomotion in place of limbs,[1][5] and gills to breathe underwater.[5] Of all vertebrates, they are the oldest, most structurally simple, and most wide-ranging in terms of species,[2] with 24,000 to at least 30,000 known to humans.[1][2]

Because of their ubiquity to marine ecosystems,[1] fish are the most economically significant aquatic life-form and are a vital food source for millions of people around the world.[2] Despite challenges to classifying such a diverse group,[2] they are traditionally divided into bony fishes, which have true bony skeletons;[1][2] jawless fishes, which are the most primitive of fishes but are rejected as vertebrates by some scientists;[2][4] and cartilaginous fishes, which have skeletons made of cartilage,[1][2] with sharks being a prominent example.[2]

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In the 870s, Eivor Varinsdottir caught a variety of fish in order to fulfill requests for the Fishing Hut at Ravensthorpe and to give as offerings at certain altars, such as Nymdesfelda and the Elisdon Altar.[6]

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Cartilaginous fishes[edit | edit source]

Bony fishes[edit | edit source]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Levinton, Jeffrey S. (2014) "Marine Vertebrates and Other Nekton". Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 162–197.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Castro, Peter and Huber, Michael. (2013) "Marine Fishes". Marine Biology. 9th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 150–176.
  3. Merriam-Webster. Fish. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved on 18 January 2023.
  4. 4.0 4.1 University of California Museum of Paleontology. A Fisheye View of the Tree of Life – What is a fish?. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved on 18 January 2023.
  5. 5.0 5.1 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Exploring Our Fluid Earth: What is a Fish?. University of Hawaiʻi. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved on 18 January 2023.
  6. Assassin's Creed: Valhalla