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Fish SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Life cycle p.146
▸ ▸ Pets pp.152—153
Fish are animals that live in water. They are able to breathe ▸ ▸ Oceans and seas
underwater, and have fins to help them swim around. p.187
There are more than 3,000 different ▸ ▸ Seashore p.220

species of fish in the world. ▸ ▸ Vertebrates
p.266

The body is covered in
plates made of thin Gills are special
bone, called scales. organs that let fish
breathe the gas
oxygen underwater.

Fins steer the Goldfish
fish through Goldfish are the most
Lionfish the water. popular pet fish. Newborn
Long spines protect lionfish goldfish are shiny brown.
from other animals. They turn golden when they
They hunt at night, are a year old.
feeding on small Deadly fins are used
fish, crabs, to knock out other
and shrimp. sea animals.

Seahorse dad
Red lionfish Stingray Most fish don’t look after
These fish are found their eggs. Seahorses are
Stinging tail in warm, shallow different—the male carries
the eggs around in a pouch
has one or two waters. Most of their
Morays have a poisonous spikes. on its belly, until they hatch.
poisonous bite. time is spent buried
Blue spots let other in the sand, waiting
fish know that the to pounce on other
Eel stingray is deadly. sea animals.
Eels are long fish that look
like snakes. They have more
than 100 bones in their spine,
which makes them very bendy.

Zebra moray eel Blue spotted stingray
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