what is the scientific name of a fish
The study of fish is called Ichthyology (from Greek: á¼°ÏÎ¸Ï, ikhthu, fish; and Î»ÏÎ³Î¿Ï, logos, knowledge). So that means a Scientific name for fish might be Ichthy (plural form, Icthyes) . Of course, Pisces (pie-seez) is the name of the constellation known as The Fishes, and piscis (pis-kis) is the Latin word for fish (pisce - pis-kee - is the plural form of piscis).
Because the term fish is defined negatively, and excludes the tetrapods (i.e., the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) which descend from within the same ancestry, it is paraphyletic, and is not considered a proper grouping in systematic biology.ish do not represent a monophyletic group, and therefore the evolution of fish is not studied as a single event. Early fish from the fossil record are represented by a group of small, jawless, armored fish known as Ostracoderms. Jawless fish lineages are mostly extinct.