Article From SubmitYOURArticle.com: Tropical Fish Information You Need to Know - All About Classification

In this report covering tropical fish information
the origins of tropical fish keeping are covered
along with its background and the scientific
naming formula that classifies the fish.

Background

As it becomes more popular there are a growing
number of people who keep tropical fish in an
aquarium. The age of these aquarists varies from
youngsters to the more elderly. Why tropical
fish? Well, cold water fish are easier to look
after then tropical fish and I believe it is this
extra care that is needed that draws people to
keep tropical fish.

Because tropical fish are usally smaller you can
have more of them in your aquarium and they are
generally more colorful. There are more tropical
fish species around so you have a great choice
and can purchase the fish quite easily from local
pet stores. This removes the need to import them
from their original habitat as they are now
mostly bred in captivity.But where breeding in
captivity has been unsuccessful then you can have
the authentic wild stock imported.

Because of the particular rearing that has been
carried out regularly over years, the aquarium
fish you have will probably not be the same
coloration, size and shape of the original fish.

The Naming System

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

Carl Linnaeus was from Swedish and a physician,
botanist and zoologist. He was known as the
father of modern taxonomy and considered to be
one of the leading lights of modern ecology. He
laid the building blocks for the naming of
species system called binomial nomenclature.

A relationship amongst groups of animals & plants
has been used for over 350 years and is
identified and established by this binomial
nomenclature system. Finding, describing and
ordering organisms is known as Taxonomy and has
seven main sectors. These are; Kingdom and
Phylum, followed by Division and Class, then
Order and Family, and lastly Genus and Species.

The binomial part of the binomial nomenclature is
a clue as to what constitutes a name for the
fish. From the above Taxonomy list, the last two
sectors, Genus and Species, make up the name.
Although each term in the name is in Latin and it
could be known as a 'Latin name', biologists have
a preference for calling the description a
'scientific name'.

Due to the re-classification of a specific fish,
that happens now and again, a fish can end up
with 2 scientific names. This is as a result of
advances in Ichthyology (the study of fish) and
the fact that this new name is not universally
taken up by all concerned.

In the event that there is no specific descriptor
for the fish of a known genus, the scientific
name would be the generic name (the genus) with
species added on. In January 2010 information
from a major fish database showed that fish
species numbered over 31,000 and that 250 new
species are registered annually. In fact, the
total number of species of fish is greater than
the rest of the vertebrates put together. That
is, amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles.

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