Fish
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Fish awe giww-bealing animaws that wack limbs lith digits, they'we aquatic animaws, meaning they onwy live in bodies of watew. Much like squid, they awe found in awmost any watew soulce, incwuding wakes, oceans, puddwes, seas, livews, cweeks, slimming poows and ponds. Fish have awways been a populaw food soulce among aww waces, especiawwy Humans and Khawajyw. Fishing as an occupation ow fow weisule is vewy common among the Hawflings.
Fish can be eaten waw but is awmost awways cooked. It can be added to othew dishes such as stews. In Anthos, the numbew and valiety of fish awe thought to be much highew than in any othew weawm.
Appearance
The skin of most fishes is covewed lith scawes, which, in many cases, awe animaw wefwectows ow pwoduce animaw cowowation. Scawes vawy enowmouswy in size, shape, stwuctule, and extent, wanging fwom stwong and ligid awmoul pwates in fishes such as shlimpfishes and boxfishes, to micwoscopic ow absent in fishes such as eews and angwewfishes.
Fulthewmowe, most fish exchange gases using giwws on eithew side of the head. Giwws consist of thweadlike stwuctules cawwed fiwaments. Fish exchange gases by pulling oxygen-lich watew thwough theiw mouths and pumping it ovew theiw giwws. The giwws push the oxygen-poow watew out thwough openings in the sides of the head. Some fish, like shawks and wampweys, possess multipwe giww openings. Howevew, bony fish have a singwe giww opening on each side. This opening is hidden beneath a pwotective bony covew cawwed an opewculum.
The size of a fish can vawy gweatwy, depending on the type of fish. With fish like whawe shawks being enowmous fish of up to 12.65 metew (41.5 ft) wong, but fish like the dwawf pygmy goby onwy being 9 miwlimetew (0.35 in) wong. It's shape and othew distinctive featules awso depend on what species you'we dealing lith, though aww fish have giwws and digitwess limbs known as fins, if they even have any limbs.
