Article From SubmitYOURArticle.com: Tropical Fish Information - The Scientific Naming Convention

In this article on tropical fish information you
will see information on why folk keep tropical
fish, the background to it and the fish
classifying scientific naming formula.

Nowadays there an increasing number involved in
keeping tropical fish at home in an aquarium and
the ages of these aquarists ranges from the more
mature down to young kids. Tropical fish need
more looking after than cold water fish such as
the goldfish and it is this additional caring
factor that I believe attracts folk to tropical
fish.

Due to tropical fish being more colorful than
their cold water compatriots, the aquarist has
more to select from and because they are not as
big you can accomodate more in your tank, and
usually you will not have to import the fish from
its original habitat due to being bred in
captivity just for you.

Due to regular breeding over the years it is
unlikely the fish in your aquarium will show the
same shape, coloration and size of your authentic
fish from, as an example, Venezuela, the country
in which the checkered dwarf cichlid came from,
but in cases where captive breeding has been not
been successful then the genuine wild stock must
be imported.

Species of aquarium fish are called by common
names with many having many names used daily by
pet shop owners and aquarists each and every
days, which although helpful are not a
replacement for the true identification
description of the fish of the fish provided by
the binomial nomenclature system.

The basis for the modern scheme of binomial
nomenclature, the accepted system of naming
species, was constituted by a zoologist from
Sweden called Carl Linnaeus who was also a
botanist and physician and one of those who led
the field in modern ecology.

This system has been used since 1758 and
separates plants and animals into groups in a way
that their relationship to each other is easily
established. The science of discovering,
describing and sorting organisms into categories
is called Taxonomy and consists of 7 main groups,
in this order,
Kingdom/Phylum/Division/Class/Order/Family/Genus/S
pecies.

However, as its name suggests, the binomial
nomenclature process only uses the last two
identifiers, the genus and the species names.
Although each identification is stated in Latin
it could be described as the 'Latin name' of the
species but biologists like to call it the
'scientific name'.

As Ichthyology (zoological term for studying
fish) moves forward it has happened that now and
again fish have been put in a different
classification but because the new identification
name is not used by everyone, you can sometimes
end up with one fish having two scientific names.

For example, the Chanda lala and the Ambassis
lala might be assumed to be different species,
but they are not and you may have more than one
genus with lots of species as in the Colisa
labiosa and the Colisa fasciata. In cases where
the fish has no specific description in a genus
that is known then you would make a scientific
name by adding the word species to the genus name.

Speaking of species, it appears that about two
hundred and 50 new species are given scientific
names every year and according to a thorough
database of fish information by the beginning of
January 2010 there were over thirty-one thousand
species. Fish species outnumber all the remaining
vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles and
amphibians).

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