Re: Definition of 'fish', & GSP is displeased ;-)

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

I forgot what exactly Säve-Söderbergh thought about the ancestry of 
amniotes. He considered them all fairly close relatives, but with a few 
anamniotic animals inside the clade...

Also, the influential von Huene used Reptiliomorpha for a paraphyletic 
group; he, too, rejected amniote monophyly.
http://dml.cmnh.org/2002Jan/msg01091.html

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> > And after all, things like hagfish and ratfish and lungfish lie
> > outside the Actinopterygii.  So the word 'fish' is pretty
> > entrenched in the English language for lots of
> > non-actinopterygians.
> >
> > It's also entrenched for a number of non-vertebrates (eg.
> > starfish).
>
>  True; but 'starfish' is an exception that proves the rule.  Overall,
>  the vast majority of names ending in 'fish' are, well, fishes (=
>  non-tetrapod vertebrates).

Crayfish, silverfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish...