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Fish has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 1, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
November 22, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
April 17, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
January 17, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
March 6, 2024	Good article nominee	Not listed
March 22, 2024	Good article nominee	Listed
Current status: Good article

Fishes Top‑importance

	Fish portal This article is part of WikiProject Fishes, an attempt to organise a detailed guide to all topics related to Fish taxa. To participate, you can edit the attached article, or contribute further at WikiProject Fishes. This project is an offshoot of the WikiProject Tree of Life.FishesWikipedia:WikiProject FishesTemplate:WikiProject FishesFishes
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Section sizes

Section size for Fish (42 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,197	4,197
Etymology	1,463	1,463
Evolution	45	17,040
Fossil history	5,048	5,048
Phylogeny	6,710	6,710
Taxonomy	1,309	1,309
Diversity	3,928	3,928
Ecology	15	11,631
Habitats	8,909	8,909
Parasites and predators	2,707	2,707
Anatomy and physiology	69	34,304
Locomotion	3,377	3,377
Circulation	1,006	1,006
Respiration	21	3,604
Gills	1,238	1,238
Air breathing	2,345	2,345
Digestion	917	917
Excretion	1,151	1,151
Brain	1,901	1,901
Sensory systems	6,160	6,160
Cognition	3,491	3,491
Electrogenesis	1,641	1,641
Endothermy	2,796	2,796
Reproduction and life-cycle	3,164	3,164
DNA repair	1,110	1,110
Defenses against disease	3,917	3,917
Behavior	16	8,695
Shoaling and schooling	2,022	2,022
Communication	6,657	6,657
Conservation	2,083	11,733
Overfishing	4,346	4,346
Other threats	5,304	5,304
Importance to humans	28	11,279
Economic	2,508	2,508
Recreation	1,371	1,371
Culture	7,372	7,372
See also	390	390
Notes	27	27
References	31	31
Sources	594	594
Further reading	2,426	2,426
External links	1,376	1,376
Total	105,186	105,186

Disambiguation

"For the superclass of living fish, see Osteichthyes."That phrasing implies that all living fish are Osteichtyans. Which is obviously false. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:30, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Added 'bony' to the hatnote. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:08, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]