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Fictional aquatic animals (8 C, 9 P) L. Aquatic locomotion (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Aquatic animals" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Aquatic animals (especially freshwater animals) are often of special concern to conservationists because of the fragility of their environments. Aquatic animals are subject to pressure from overfishing / hunting , destructive fishing , water pollution , acidification , climate change and competition from invasive species .
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific society, maintains a list of valid species and subspecies, most recently updated in October 2015. [1] This list follows the Society's taxonomy regarding and subspecies.
World capture fisheries and aquaculture production by species group [1] This is a list of aquatic animals that are harvested commercially in the greatest amounts, listed in order of tonnage per year (2012) by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Species listed here have an annual tonnage in excess of 160,000 tonnes.
Marine mammals are aquatic mammals that rely on the ocean for their existence. They include animals such as sea lions, whales, dugongs, sea otters and polar bears. Like other aquatic mammals, they do not represent a biological grouping. [26] The humpback whale is a fully aquatic marine mammal.
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
Aquatic animals (8 C, 15 P) B. Brackish water organisms (1 C, ... Pages in category "Aquatic organisms" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Aquatic animals by continent. An aquatic animal is an animal , either vertebrate or invertebrate , which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime. This is a container category .