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Families of Aquarium Fishes

Anabantiformes
 Bushfish, Gouramis, Bettas

Labyrinth fishes

Instead of gills, these fish use a rudimentary lung to obtain oxygen and are "air breathers". They have gills too, which they also use but can in fact drown if deprived of a source of air.



Atheriniformes
  Silversides
  Rainbowfish

Rainbowfish

Shorefishes, pond and creek fish.




Cypriniformes

Barbs, Minnows, & Loaches

Barbs, Minnows, & Loaches


Cyprinodontiformes
   Livebearers

Tooth-Carps

The egg laying tooth-carps ("Killifish") and the live bearing tooth-carps ("Livebearers").


Gobiiformes
 Sleepers
 Gobies

Gobies and sleepers




Synbranchiformes

Eels



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Freshwater Aquarium Fishes


Ref:
Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes
Ricardo Betancur-R, Edward O. Wiley, Gloria Arratia, Arturo Acero, Nicolas Bailly, Masaki Miya, Guillaume Lecointre & Guillermo Ortí; BMC Evolutionary Biology volume 17, Article number: 162 (2017)
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 (Local copy)

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