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Huge Shoals Of Fish
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Fish are a paraphyletic group: that is, any clade containing all fish also contains the tetrapods, which are not fish. For this reason, groups such as the "Class Pisces" seen in older reference works are no longer used in formal classifications.
Traditional classification divide fish into three extant classes, and with extinct forms sometimes classified within the tree, sometimes as their own classes:
• Class Agnatha (jawless fish)
o Subclass Cyclostomata (hagfish and lampreys)
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