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WikiProject Fishes aims to help organise our rapidly growing collection of articles about fish taxa. Issues outside the scope of this WikiProject include fishkeeping (fish aquarium topics), fishing, fisheries, fish cuisine topics, fish farm topics, fish market topics, fish processing topics, fish product sales topics, fish products topics, and fish trap topics.

At the end of October 2021, there were 33,888 articles within the project's scope. During October 2021, the most popular 500 articles received 7,931,480 views, averaging 255,854 views per day.

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life:

WikiProject Science.
WikiProject Biology
WikiProject Tree of Life
WikiProject Animals
WikiProject Fishes

It is the parent project of:

WikiProject Aquarium Fishes
WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing (co-parent with WikiProject Sports)
WikiProject Sharks

It is worth keeping one eye on several Wikiprojects that overlap with this one, including:

Associated Portal

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The Fish Portal is the associated portal of WikiProject Fishes.

Participants

For recruiting additional members, see users associating themselves with fish.
  1. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  2. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} - any but has a fondness for tropical reef fish
  3. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} - all species but with some level of expertise in tropical reef fishes, and the largest freshwater ancestral species.
  4. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} - Seahorses and pipefish, et al.
  5. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} - Fish biologist expanding and updating articles on north Atlantic fishes.
  6. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
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  8. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} - mainly images and references
  9. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  10. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} – I've developed many articles for this project, mostly about fish types, habitats and ecology or related to fisheries.
  11. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} (Created 2 fish articles before signing up here. Black scabbardfish and Amphiprion akallopisos)
  12. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  13. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Mainly editing articles relating to extinct fishes, with a strong interest in Antarctic and deep-sea extant fishes as well.
  14. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  15. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Lover of fishes, specifically wrasses and salmonids. Not active much, but would love to help in any way I can.
  16. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I am interested in fish
  17. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Hiii I just created articles for most grayling species and now start working on other freshwater species in Russia and East Asia! Have a good day!
  18. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  19. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I do a lot of work with marine fish of the North Pacific and I want to elevate our wider knowledge of them!
  20. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  21. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  22. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I hate fish stubs, so I make them bigger
  23. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Freshwater fish
  24. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  25. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I like fish. They're fascinating and it's lovely to know more about them init?
  26. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  27. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  28. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  29. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Fish biologist/anatomist studying a variety of fish taxa, from pupfishes to cichlids to bramids. Editing when I have the time.
  30. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  31. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Interested in expanding and improving all articles on North American Salmonidae
  32. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  33. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I LOVE sharks
  34. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  35. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Lifelong fish enthusiast with particular interest in Centrarchidae family
  36. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} - iNaturalist to Wikipedia pipeline.
  37. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Sporadic editor on marine organisms of Southern Africa, including fishes.
  38. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  39. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Pupfish. Lots of Pupfish. Main Goal: Make ichthyology better.
  40. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  41. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I got interested in this sort of thing for the Fish Quiz itself I am willing and ready to help!
  42. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  43. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I try to add more to fish articles that are stubs
  44. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  45. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} (ive created 12 articles for this project, but i just realised i didnot sign the project page)
  46. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Autopatrolled user with more than 50 pages under my belt. Largely focused on neotropocal characiformes.
  47. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  48. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  49. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}}
  50. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} Editing or creating drafts for articles, especially of Sri Lankan fish.
  51. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I've recently created many fish species articles, and a genus article, and am interested in creating many more.
  52. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} I love sharks
  53. {{safesubst:#invoke:user|main}} - Yuriy Kvach

Other participants

See Category:WikiProject Fishes participants for participants who have associated themselves with the project using the Template:Tl or Template:Tl userboxes.

Inactive

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Structure and criteria for inclusion

Articles should normally be about particular taxa. For example:

If a family has only a single genus, the family name should redirect to the article on the genus (e.g., Elassomatidae). If a genus has only a single species, articles using the common name should redirect to the species (e.g., Centrarchus), whereas articles using the binomial should redirect to the genus (e.g., Boesemania microlepis). Exceptions are also made for articles where the genus name has a disambiguator in parentheses (e.g., Bullockia (fish)).

When a genus contains only a small number of similar species, the articles may be combined with the article on the genus (e.g., Crappie, which includes the white crappie, Pomoxis annularis, and the black crappie, P. nigromaculatus.)

Also see the lists at Tkinias/Fish, SpeciesFishes1, SpeciesFishes2, SpeciesFishes3, and MarineFishList

WikiProject Fishes categories

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Fish names and article titles

Common names

Common names should be written in sentence case rather than title case, following normal English usage and that of FishBase. Use, for example, "largemouth bass", not "Largemouth Bass". Place names or personal names that form part of a common name remain capitalized, hence "Guadalupe bass" (in reference to the Guadalupe River) or "White Cloud Mountain minnow" (in reference to White Cloud Mountain in China).

Systematic names

  • Use systematic or "scientific" names according to established biological usage.
  • Capitalize but do not italicize names of taxa higher than genus, e.g., the family Exocoetidae.
  • Capitalize and italicize generic names, e.g., Xiphophorus.
  • Italicize but do not capitalize specific epithets.
  • Refer to species using full names, e.g., Xiphophorus hellerii or X. hellerii but not hellerii.
  • Neither italicize nor capitalize anglicizations of systematic names, e.g., "the pumpkinseed is a perciform fish".

Article titles

Article naming for fishes differs, as detailed below, from Naming conventions (fauna).

Use the common name for any species that satisfies at least one of the following criteria:

  • 1(i) The species has a single common name that is widely used and never used for any other species. While the species in question may have additional common names, those names are rarely used. Example: Greenland halibut.
  • 1(ii) The species has a widely recognised common name that is so rarely applied to other species that confusion as to the subject of the article is unlikely to arise. Example: Guppy.
  • 1(iii) Within the area where the species is endemic and/or of commercial importance, only a single common name is used by the relevant legal, conservation, fisheries or local institutions, even though other common names may exist. Example: Atlantic salmon.
  • 1(iv) The species has a common name that is normally separated from similar common names by use of geographical, descriptive, or other modifications to those names. Once differentiated, these names satisfy criteria i, ii, or iii above. Examples: Shovelnose sturgeon, Little shovelnose sturgeon, False shovelnose sturgeon.

Use the Latin name for any species that fails to satisfy criteria 1(i) to 1(iv), including such situations as the following:

Guidelines

  • Regardless of the title used, articles should include the scientific name in bold and italics and all significant English common names in bold in the first paragraph (and preferably the first sentence).
  • The first paragraph should differentiate the fish from other species with which it might be confused. This may be done by explaining the ambiguity, with links to other fish (e.g., at tilapia), or by mentioning geographical distribution, for example:
The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as the millionsfish, is a small fresh and brackish water fish from Central America.
This article is about the <put text>; for the <put text> see <put link>.
  • Create a disambiguation page when the ambiguity involves many fish and a hatnote would be too long. Example: Tigerfish.
  • Before renaming articles, discuss the reasons for doing so on the Talk page. In cases of disputed naming, where a consensus cannot be reached on the article's Talk page, the matter should be discussed at WikiProject Fishes to allow a consensus decision to be reached.

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Lists of fish species should follow the form: List of fishes of <Region>. The definite article may be needed for the name of some regions. Note that "List of fish of ..." is incorrect when dealing with a list of the species.

Higher taxa

Articles on taxa above species should be titled using the common name, if one exists and is unambiguous. Otherwise, the scientific epithet should be used. When FishBase or other references give a common name of "xes and ys" or "xes or ys" for a higher taxon, the scientific epithet (possibly anglicized) should be used for the article title.

Articles on taxa above the generic level should be titled with the Latin form of the name and not the anglicization, e.g. Cyprinidae not cyprinid, and Perciformes not perciform. The anglicizations may be freely used in article text however.

Taxonomy

For taxa between species up to and including order articles should follow Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (Ecof) https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification/ . The taxonomy used in taxoboxes for taxa up to and including order should be based on Ecof.

For extinct taxa, i,e, where that taxon is not included in Ecof, and for levels above that of order then editors should follow the the 5th edition of Fishes of the World. For example the for the placoderms we would follow Fishes of the World but for the genus Jefitchia, a sciaenid, we would use Ecof's taxonomy because that taxon is within an extant lineage. Editors should have access to a full copy of the 5th edition of Catalog of Fishes in the Wikipedia Library https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/doi/book/10.1002/9781119174844 . If the FotW taxonomy is shown to be outdated or contrary to the current expert consensus in recent scientific papers, alternative schemes may be followed instead.

Any Taxonomy section in an article should note different classification schemes, where relevant, particularly where Ecof differs from Fishes of the World, Deepfin https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 and Near & Thacker's Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-65/issue-1/014.065.0101/Phylogenetic-Classification-of-Living-and-Fossil-Ray-Finned-Fishes-Actinopterygii/10.3374/014.065.0101.full

The taxonomy template should be referenced to Ecof for taxa at and below the level of order, and to Fishes of the World 5th ed for taxa above the level of order.

  • Note: When listing the species authority (the author(s) who originally named the species or subspecies of interest), in the taxobox or elsewhere, parentheses matter. For example, "Foogenus fishii Smith, 1900" has a subtly different meaning than "Foogenus fishii (Smith, 1900)". Parentheses indicate that Smith originally placed fishii in a different genus, and the species was subsequently placed in Foogenus. See more at Binomial nomenclature and Template:Taxobox#Authorities (Animalia usage).

Categorization

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Wikipedia categories should be created for well-known families, using the plural of the common name of the family (Category:Centrarchidae or Category:Cyprinidae), and for orders, using the common name (e.g., Category:Catfishes) or the scientific epithet (e.g., Category:Cyprinodontiformes). For very small families (e.g., the pygmy sunfishes), only the order category may be used, but usage must be consistent among members of a family.

Article format

Taxoboxes

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All articles on taxa should have taxoboxes (constructed using the taxobox templates, not built from scratch) including kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. See Wikipedia:Automated taxobox system for the full details of taxobox construction.

An example taxobox, for the warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), is given at right.

Images

An image should be included in the taxobox if an appropriate one is available.

Higher taxa should use images reflecting their types, if possible. For example, Lepomis uses an image of L. auritus, the redbreast sunfish, which is the type species of the genus, while Centrarchidae uses an image of Centrarchus macropterus, the flier, which is the type (and only) species of Centrarchus, the type genus of Centrarchidae.

The taxobox image should ideally picture a single fish, facing left, in a horizontal orientation, cropped to 20 percent of the fish's length around the fish's body, and should be 250 pixels wide. (The image should not be resized manually; the full-size image should be uploaded and markup used to create the 250px image. Note that very large images may be resized before upload so that they will fit in a normal browser window when enlarged.) For articles long enough to warrant inclusion of additional images, these may be placed as thumbnails in the article body, ideally showing the fish in its native environment.

Note that images of fishes which do not possess right-left symmetry should not be flipped to obtain a left-facing fish; doing so would, for example, convert a righteye flounder into a lefteye flounder.

Text captions should not be used on taxobox images in species articles, but in articles on higher taxa, the article caption should indicate the species pictured (if known), in the format "[[Common name]] (''Genus species'')". If the species depicted is not known, the caption should identify the fish as closely as possible, as in "Pygmy sunfish (Elassoma sp.)"

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A example size comparison of a whale shark and a human

It is always beneficial to have a picture that communicates a sense of scale. This can be achieved by

  • placing standard sized physical objects next to the fish (human hand or body, tape measure, etc.), before taking the photo. Sometimes the background scenery will already do the job.
  • painting a measuring scale into an existing image, if you know its exact scale (that's not the same as knowing the average size of the species, btw).
  • painting a reference shape (human silhouette, etc.) into the picture, if your idea about the scale is less accurate.
  • painting a measuring scale is highly unscientific if it is based on nothing but a guess. In this case you should use the image as it is!

Anyway, any image is better than no image - esp. if you have only third party material available, or if you don't want to get the animal out of its living environment.

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Introduction

The first paragraph should give the common and systematic names of the taxon featured in the article, as well as some information about its classification. Species articles should follow the form:

The foofish (Barus foous) is a species of freshwater fish in the baz family (family Bazidae) of order Quuxiformes. It is native to the Big River basin in Ruritania.

Higher order articles should follow the form:

Barus is a genus of freshwater fish in the baz family (family Bazidae) of order Quuxiformes. The type species is the common barfish (B. vulgaris), and fishes of this genus are known as the barfishes.

Succeeding paragraphs should give, in order (omitting paragraphs for which no information is available):

  1. Taxonomy (includes classification, evolution, subspecies, etymology of name (especially for genus names, which FishBase normally provides), alternate common names, important binomial synonyms, etc.
  2. Description, including size, weight, and age data from FishBase
  3. Distribution and habitat
  4. Feeding, diet, and related information
  5. Reproduction (life-cycle, breeding, etc.)
  6. Importance to humans (aquarium fish, game fish, commercial fishing, research uses, etc.)
  7. Conservation status (if not Secure) for species, including explanation for the classification, and mention of members classified as Vulnerable or worse for higher taxa
  8. Trivia (state fish, national emblem, ships bearing the name, other uses of the name, etc.)

Other sections

Information on keeping fish in an aquarium should be put in a section entitled "In the aquarium". Breeding and dietary information pertaining to captive fish should go here, rather than in the main section, which should refer primarily to the fish in its natural habitat.

Other sections may address topics of interest warranting discussion longer than a brief paragraph.

References

Every article should include a section entitled "References", with a bullet-list of sources. Every article should include a citation there of the relevant entries in FishBase and, if possible, ITIS. It is not necessary to include Fishes of the World unless it has been used as a source for the article. Other sources for information in the article should be included, following normal citation format.

Templates exist for citing FishBase and ITIS, and these should be used.

FishBase

For a FishBase entry on an order, use:

{{FishBase order | order = Bariformes | year = YYYY | month = Month}}

For a FishBase entry on a family, use:

{{FishBase family | family = Baridae | year = YYYY | month = Month}}

For a FishBase entry on a genus, use:

{{FishBase genus | genus = Barus | year = YYYY | month = Month}}

For most FishBase entries on species, use:

{{FishBase species | genus = Barus | species = foous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}

For most FishBase entries on subspecies, use:

{{FishBase subspecies | genus = Barus | species = foous | subspecies = subfoous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}

For FishBase entries that are problematic for the above templates, get the numeric ID from their URL and use:

{{FishBase species alt | ID = ???? | taxon = Barus foous foous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}

For all FishBase templates, year and month refer to the FishBase revision consulted, not the date on which you consulted FishBase; the revision can be found from the FishBase home page.

ITIS

For an ITIS entry, use:

{{ITIS | ID = ????? | taxon = ''Barus foous'' | year = YYYY | date = DD Month}}

For the ITIS template, year and date refer to the date on which ITIS was consulted. Date can be in either U.S. or international format, as it will be wikified.

Web sites or pages not used as sources for the article (except for FishBase and ITIS) should appear in a section entitled "External links" (using the plural even if only one link is present).

Talk pages

WikiProject Fishes' project banner is Template:Tl. Please place at the top of an appropriate talk page. Placing the template on the talk page will help to direct editors to this WikiProject Fishes main page. This is how the template will look when it has been added:

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Stub templates

Remember to mark up stub articles with the appropriate stub template at the bottom of the article. This automatically adds it to the appropriate page and inserts the banners to the bottom of the page. These are the current stub templates:

Stub name Category Usage Number of articles in stub category Banner
Template:Tl Category:Siluriformes stubs Any fish of the order Siluriformes 681 Template:Catfish-stub
Template:Tl Category:Characiformes stubs Any fish of the order Characiformes 515 Template:Characiformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Perciformes stubs Any fish belonging to the order Perciformes other than Cichlids 496 Template:Perciformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Cichlidae stubs Any fish of the family Cichlidae 798 Template:Cichlidae-stub
Template:Tl Category:Cypriniformes stubs Any fish of the order Cypriniformes 147 Template:Cypriniformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Shark stubs Any fish of the superorder Selachimorpha 215 Template:Shark-stub
Template:Tl Category:Rajiformes stubs Any fish articles in order Rajiformes 188 Template:Rajiformes-stub
Template:Tl upmerged to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs * Any fish of the order Acipenseriformes N/A Template:Acipenseriformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Cyprinodontiformes stubs Any fish of the order Cyprinodontiformes 343 Template:Cyprinodontiformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Osteoglossiformes stubs Any fish of the order Osteoglossiformes 63 Template:Osteoglossiformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Pleuronectiformes stubs Any fish of the order Pleuronectiformes 239 Template:Pleuronectiformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Salmoniformes stubs Any fish of the order Salmoniformes 83 Template:Salmoniformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Scorpaeniformes stubs Any fish of the order Scorpaeniformes 371 Template:Scorpaeniformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Atheriniformes stubs Any fish of the order Atheriniformes 172 Template:Atheriniformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Tetraodontiformes stubs Any fish of the order Tetraodontiformes 293 Template:Tetraodontiformes-stub
Template:Tl Category:Prehistoric fish stubs Any prehistoric fish articles 33 Template:Paleo-fish-stub
Template:Tl Category:Ray-finned fish stubs Any other ray-finned fish articles (Class Actinopterygii) 597 Template:Rayfinned-fish-stub
Template:Tl Category:Fishkeeping stubs Fishkeeping-related articles 30 Template:Fishkeeping-stub
Template:Tl Category:Fish stubs Any other articles related to fish 27 Template:Fish-stub
Template:Tl Category:Labridae stubs Any fish of the family Labridae. 19 Template:Labridae-stub

The pages were counted on January 18, 2023.

* Stub templates with very few articles are often upmerged into a parent category. To propose a separate category, please visit Wikipedia:WSS/P.

Categories

Please make sure to add articles to the appropriate categories among the ones listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes/Categories. If there are any categories that you think should be created, please request them in the tasklist on this page or on the talk page.

In some cases, there might be more appropriate ways to group articles than categories, such as lists or article series boxes. For more information, see Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes.

Userboxes

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Userbox enthusiasts may want to add one of these userboxes to their userpage to show that they are members of this WikiProject, by adding Template:Tl or Template:Tl. For more userboxes, see additional fish related userboxes.

Barnstars

  • Awarded to users who've shown great editing skills in improving articles related to Fish.

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Article assessment

See WikiProject Fishes/Assessment.

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Article alerts

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Article traffic

See WikiProject Fishes/Popular pages.

Collaboration

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Since Image:Trachurus symmetricus baitball.jpg is the image used on the project banner, it is important that the article Pacific jack mackerel be improved. Please work together to improve the article on Pacific jack mackerel.

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I originally nominated the article for deletion as original research. There seems to be some confusion with this article about whether it represents a distinct species and whether it's actually been scientifically described. It's been improved, but it'd be great if an expert would comment on the AfD, improve the article, or otherwise help us figure this one out. Graymornings(talk) 11:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Peer Review

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes/Peer review

Any fish article requiring a review may be placed here for review specifically by members of the wikiproject.

Tasklist

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