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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fish absolutely exist cladistically, OP just didn't want to admit they're a land dwelling fish. You believe the implications of cladistics or you don't, cowards.

I'd also argue it's relatively easy to separate fish-fish from land fish from land fish that became sea fish again to bully the fish fish.

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Is fish just another name for vertebrates ?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah. You could have a fish that evolved out of having a spine (see: Chuck Schumer) but you can't evolve out of a clade.

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Seems so. Wikipedia tells there are seven classes of vertebrates:

  • Agnatha (jawless fishes, paraphyletic)
  • Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
  • Osteichthyes (bony fishes, paraphyletic)
  • Amphibia (amphibians)
  • Reptilia (reptiles, paraphyletic)
  • Aves (birds)
  • Mammalia (mammals)

So yes, fishes is the same thing as vertebrates.

Probably because if you were a vertebrate living in the sea, you needed some sort of gills and fins and such. And those are what makes people assume something is a "fish".

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

You sound exactly like a specimen from the Dunning-Krueger clade

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I'm not gonna lie man this one sounded better in your head

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Considering that you misspelled the name of a common term and that's not a biological classification I'm going to stand by what the doctorates who taught my zoology courses said.

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