Category: Fish Identification
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The Fish and Fish Diversity
FISH THE ‘FISH’ [ = ‘Pisces’ in Latin; ‘Poisson’ inFrench; ‘Piscado’ in Spanish; ‘Pisce’ inItalian; ‘Fisch’ in German; ‘Machli’ in Hindi;‘Matsya’ in Sanskrit etc.]: Fishes are a quite diverseheterogeneous assemblage and exhibit a phylogenetic continuity. To mostbiologists, the term ‘fish’ is not so much a taxonomic ranking as aconvenient description for aquatic organisms as diverse…
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Bio-etymology PART – 11: MOLLUSCA
A Recapitulation: Making Biology students interested in Etymologies’ !!! v FUN TO LEARN BIOLOGICAL TERMINOLOGY v THE LANGUAGE OF BIOLOGISTS v SOWING SEEDS OF SYSTEMATICS/TAXONOMY AT THE GRASSROOT LEVEL LEARNING BIO- ETYMOLOGY Over a period in past centuries, Science is general and Biology in particular has accumulated a vast array of words to communicate fact(s) or phenomena…