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Consider that the oceans cover three-quarters of the earth’s surface and that fishes occupy every livable habitat in the sea. Add in the freshwater fishes, which occur wherever lakes and rivers are found, and one could fairly say that fishes dominate the earth.
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© 1986 J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown
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Smith, M.M., Heemstra, P.C. (1986). Biology of fishes. In: Smith, M.M., Heemstra, P.C. (eds) Smiths’ Sea Fishes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82858-4_2
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