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Fish are very diverse and are categorized in many ways. Such as Jawless fish are the most primitive fish, Cartilaginous fish have a cartilaginous skeleton, Cartilaginous fish don't have swim bladders, Bony fish include the lobe finned fish and the ray finned fish, and there is the Teleosts which are the most advanced or "modern" fishes. The Modern Fishes are overwhelmingly the dominant class of fishes with nearly 30,000 species, covering about 96 percent of all extant fish species.

This section is an overview of some of the more common types of fish. Although most fish species have probably been discovered and described, about 250 new ones are still discovered every year.
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African Lungfishes

African lungfishes are elongated, eel-like fishes, with thread-like pectoral and pelvic fins. They have soft scales, and the dorsal and tail fins are fused into a single structure. They can either swim like eels, or crawl along the bottom, using their pectoral and pelvic fins. The largest species reach about 200 centimetres (6.6 ft) long.

African lungfishes generally inhabit shallow waters such as swamps and marshes, however they are also found in larger lakes such as Lake Victoria. They can live out of water for many months in burrows of hardened mud beneath a dried-up stream bed. They are carnivorous, eating crustaceans, aquatic insect larvae, and molluscs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_lungfish

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