"Tropical Fish Information You Need to Know - All About Classification",

"Tropical Fish Information You Need to Know - All About Classification","

BackgroundThere are a growing number of people who keep tropical fish in an aquarium as it becomes more popular and the age of these aquarists varies from youngsters to the more elderly.


Because tropical fish are smaller you can have more of them in your tank, they are more colorful in most cases, there are more species around so you have a lot to choose from and you can easily purchase the fishes without them having to be brought in from their original habitat as they are now mostly bred in captivity.


The Naming SystemPretty much every fish species has a common name (even several), which pet shops and aquarium keepers may employ on a regular basis, but if an correct description and identification is needed then common names are not adequate.


A relationship amongst groups of animals & plants has been used for over 350 years and is identified and established by the binomial nomenclature system.


However, as its name suggests, the binomial nomenclature process only uses the last two identifiers, the genus and the species names.


Two scientific names for a fish can happen now and again due to the re-classification of a specific fish.


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.
 Fish species outnumber all the remaining vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians).


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