freshwater fish
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fish that live all or much of their lives in freshwater
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- Subclass of
- fish
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- Freshwater fish
- topic's main category
- Category:Freshwater fish
- habitat
- land waters
- opposite of
- saltwater fish
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Encyclopedic overview
Tench are common freshwater fish throughout temperate Eurasia.
Freshwater fish are fish species that spend some or all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes, ponds and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less than 1.05%. These environments differ from marine habitats in many ways, especially the difference in levels of osmolarity. To survive in fresh water, fish need a range of physiological adaptations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “freshwater fish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.