Fish... or Not a Fish?

Fish / Not A Fish

The name of this has a great ring to it for a game.

Lamprey belongs to the phylum cyclostomata and not Pisces therefore lamprey are eel like creature and does not belong to fish

Somehow I got fooled by the seahorse... And also we were taught sharks and ray were a different subclass but it was so drilled in like you have fish and the cartilaginous fish (chondrichthyes). Obviously in more elementary school level words, "you have fish and sharks and rays". That division was taught so early and strongly that I dont really see them as fish, which they obviously are, because they are definitrly not mammals or birds. But I cant help but to think of them separately (the seperation obviously exists, but as two subclasses chondrichthyes and osteichthyes)

I got all of them except Seahorse.

I am the fish master

Funny. I got most of them right. Only missed Lamprey (because it's ambiguous) and Silverfish which I should have translated because we call it the same way in French ("poisson d'argent")... by the way, its description is wrong, it is wingless, not winged ;) (and rather a protoinsect than a true insect but it doesn't really matter).

Fun quiz. Got all but seahorse, manta ray and eel.

Almost got silverfish wrong; that's what we call whitebait. Realised quickly that this one probably referred to the insect.

To fish or not to fish

I guess my knowledge on sea creatures is a little... FISHY! Ah? Ah? Hey, where's everybody going?

Error in the explanation, silverfish do not have wings (in fact nowhere in their evolutionary line is there a species that has wings. They diverged before wings evolved. Unlike other insects without wings that do come from a lineage after wings have evolved, but have lost them again along the way.)

I got full in this, I guessed 18 of the as XD

I did much better than I thought I would! 14/22. :P

I got 21/22, guess I really like fish :D

Out of curiosity, what's your basis for defining fish in this quiz? Are you going by general categorization in everyday language or do you count certain biological groups, and if yes which ones?

Guessed most of these and only got one wrong

I just missed silverfish and manta ray!!

In the explanation, you say silverfish have wings. This is false, at least for the silverfish I’m thinking of. Please change it.

Wow - I never knew seahorses were fish!

Genuine question - what did people think seahorses were if not fish?

Completely forgot what a starfish was for some reason

Holy @$#%@% I got all of them I right I was expecting to get at least a couple wrong, only reason I got them all is because I went to the aquarium recently and learned that seahorses, rays, eels, etc. are indeed fish. And some of them I feel like I got lucky on

Silverfish have gotta be some of my least favorite bugs, along with centipedes and crickets

tadpoles are not animals

Aren't tadpoles, manatees, porpoises, and sea snakes all fish as well because they are in the superclass Tetrapoda, which is a group within Sarcopterygii, or lobe-finned fish?

I'm listening to the History of English podcast and learned that way back in Old English "fish" meant anything that lives in the water, just like "deer" meant anything that lives in the forest. So that's how you got all these starfish, shellfish, crayfish and things with "fish" in their names--e.g. it's a star-shaped animal that lives in the water. But I was more surprised to learn people used to call rabbits, badgers, snakes, etc. "deer." (a modern deer was called a hart)

Please put in the caveats what definition you're using, "non-Tetrapod Vertebrates," because "fish" is not a clear scientific term and defining it by any "objective" measure is quite arbitrary. You could say "well people call it a fish" but... the point of the quiz is that people confuse things that "aren't fish" as "fish" lol