lautnusantara.com - External anatomy of fish could be a survival adaptation and can be used as a methods to identify the fish. Some species have fin modification which allow them to gliding with their pectoral fin like flying fish. Aside of fin types, there are 5 main body types of fish such as streamline, laterally compressed, vertically compressed, elongated and unsual. This differentiation can provide the informastion abaout where the fish live on the colomn of waters.

In general, fish anatomy consist of head, body, fin and tail. Each parts play different role and sometimes can be different shapes among other kind of fishes. Many people still doesn’t know what other fish body part names or what its function to the fish itself. Below listed some of the fish part and the location of each part

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• Head:

1) Eye : To see surrounding environment

2) Mouth : Shapes of fish mouth is different depend on their type of diet

3) Gills : Fishes breathe through their gill. Fish gill have a lot blood vessels called capillaries that helps fish exchange oxygen and carbondioxide underwater

• Body:

1) Scales : It can produce mucus to protect fish body from friction

2) Lateral line : Helps fish to detect changes in water pressure. It look like line that appear from end of the head elongated until the start of the tail

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• Fin and Tail:

1) Dorsal Fin : Used as stabilizer while swimming, located on the top of the fish between head and tail

2) Pectoral Fin : Helping fish to move side to side, located on the either side of fish near the gills

3) Pelvic Fin : Help up and down movement of fish, located on the bottom side of the fish and it is paired fin

4) Anal Fin : To stabilize the fish movement, located on the bottom by the anus

5) Tail/Caudal Fin : Provides the power to moves forward, located at the end of fish