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WikiProject Fishes aims to help organise our rapidly growing collection of articles about fish taxa. Issues outside the scope of this WikiProject include fishkeeping (fish aquarium topics), fishing, fisheries, fish cuisine topics, fish farm topics, fish market topics, fish processing topics, fish product sales topics, fish products topics, and fish trap topics.
At the end of October 2021, there were 33,888 articles within the project's scope. During October 2021, the most popular 500 articles received 7,931,480 views, averaging 255,854 views per day.
Related WikiProjects
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life:
- WikiProject Science.
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Fishes
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
It is the parent project of:
It is worth keeping one eye on several Wikiprojects that overlap with this one, including:
- WikiProject Cephalopods
- WikiProject Cetaceans
- WikiProject Conservation worldwide
- WikiProject Ecoregions
- WikiProject Marine life
Associated Portal
The Fish Portal is the associated portal of WikiProject Fishes.
Participants
- For recruiting additional members, see users associating themselves with fish.
- Alextejthompson (talk · contribs)
- Antarctic-adventurer (talk · contribs) - any but has a fondness for tropical reef fish
- Atsme (talk · contribs) - all species but with some level of expertise in tropical reef fishes, and the largest freshwater ancestral species.
- Bruinfan12 (talk · contribs) - Seahorses and pipefish, et al.
- Clumpus (talk · contribs) - Fish biologist expanding and updating articles on north Atlantic fishes.
- Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs)
- Dan Koehl (talk · contribs)
- Daniel Mietchen (talk · contribs) - mainly images and references
- Enlil Ninlil (talk · contribs)
- Epipelagic (talk · contribs) – I've developed many articles for this project, mostly about fish types, habitats and ecology or related to fisheries.
- Esoxid (talk · contribs) (Created 2 fish articles before signing up here. Black scabbardfish and Amphiprion akallopisos)
- Fastily (talk · contribs)
- Ginkgo100 (talk · contribs)
- GunnarBonk (talk · contribs) Lover of fishes, specifically wrasses and salmonids. Not active much, but would love to help in any way I can.
- History person 2 (talk · contribs) I am interested in fish
- HolyCrocsEmperor (talk · contribs) Hiii I just created articles for most grayling species and now start working on other freshwater species in Russia and East Asia! Have a good day!
- Hyperik (talk · contribs)
- Innotata (talk · contribs)
- jj1691 (talk · contribs)
- Jokrez (talk · contribs) I hate fish stubs, so I make them bigger
- Kelubact (talk · contribs) Freshwater fish
- Kodiak Blackjack (talk · contribs)
- Knight of Gloucestershire (talk · contribs) I like fish. They're fascinating and it's lovely to know more about them init?
- Kraftlos (talk · contribs)
- Lerdsuwa (talk · contribs)
- lfstevens (talk · contribs)
- MChGilbert (talk · contribs) Fish biologist/anatomist studying a variety of fish taxa, from pupfishes to cichlids to bramids. Editing when I have the time.
- Micromesistius (talk · contribs)
- Mike Cline (talk · contribs) Interested in expanding and improving all articles on North American Salmonidae
- Mitternacht90 (talk · contribs)
- Naiadpress (talk · contribs) I LOVE sharks
- Nick Thorne (talk · contribs)
- OceanGunfish (talk · contribs) Lifelong fish enthusiast with particular interest in Centrarchidae family
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs) Sporadic editor on marine organisms of Southern Africa, including fishes.
- Plantdrew (talk · contribs)
- popcorned (talk · contribs) Pupfish. Lots of Pupfish. Main Goal: Make ichthyology better.
- Primium (talk · contribs)
- Pteronura brasiliensis (talk · contribs) I got interested in this sort of thing for the Fish Quiz itself I am willing and ready to help!
- Quetzal1964 (talk · contribs)
- Rickie Elizabeth (talk · contribs) I try to add more to fish articles that are stubs
- Rlendog (talk · contribs)
- Ryan shell (talk · contribs) (ive created 12 articles for this project, but i just realised i didnot sign the project page)
- Snugglyaggron (talk · contribs) Autopatrolled user with more than 50 pages under my belt. Largely focused on neotropocal characiformes.
- Stan Shebs (talk · contribs)
- Stefan (talk · contribs)
- TeaDrinker (talk · contribs)
- Vihaking277 (talk · contribs) Editing or creating drafts for articles, especially of Sri Lankan fish.
- Wilhelmina Will (talk · contribs) I've recently created many fish species articles, and a genus article, and am interested in creating many more.
- Wolverine XI (talk · contribs) I love sharks
- Ykvach (talk · contribs) - Yuriy Kvach
Other participants
See Category:WikiProject Fishes participants for participants who have associated themselves with the project using the {{User WPFishes}} or {{User WPFishes2}} userboxes.
Inactive
⠀Former participants who haven't edited for over two years
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Structure and criteria for inclusion
Articles should normally be about particular taxa. For example:
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Order: Catfish, Cypriniformes
- Family: Gourami, Centrarchidae
- Genus: Black bass, Lepomis
- Species: Largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides
If a family has only a single genus, the family name should redirect to the article on the genus (e.g., Elassomatidae). If a genus has only a single species, the generic name should redirect to the species (e.g., Centrarchus).
When a genus contains only a small number of similar species, the articles may be combined with the article on the genus (e.g., Crappie, which includes the white crappie, Pomoxis annularis, and the black crappie, P. nigromaculatus.)
Also see the lists at Tkinias/Fish, SpeciesFishes1, SpeciesFishes2, SpeciesFishes3, and MarineFishList
WikiProject Fishes categories
Fish names and article titles
Common names
Common names should be written in sentence case rather than title case, following normal English usage and that of FishBase. Use, for example, "largemouth bass", not "Largemouth Bass". Place names or personal names that form part of a common name remain capitalized, hence "Guadalupe bass" (in reference to the Guadalupe River) or "White Cloud Mountain minnow" (in reference to White Cloud Mountain in China).
Systematic names
- Use systematic or "scientific" names according to established biological usage.
- Capitalize but do not italicize names of taxa higher than genus, e.g., the family Exocoetidae.
- Capitalize and italicize generic names, e.g., Xiphophorus.
- Italicize but do not capitalize specific epithets.
- Refer to species using full names, e.g., Xiphophorus hellerii or X. hellerii but not hellerii.
- Neither italicize nor capitalize anglicizations of systematic names, e.g., "the pumpkinseed is a perciform fish".
Article titles
Article naming for fishes differs, as detailed below, from Naming conventions (fauna).
Use the common name for any species that satisfies at least one of the following criteria:
- 1(i) The species has a single common name that is widely used and never used for any other species. While the species in question may have additional common names, those names are rarely used. Example: Greenland halibut.
- 1(ii) The species has a widely recognised common name that is so rarely applied to other species that confusion as to the subject of the article is unlikely to arise. Example: Guppy.
- 1(iii) Within the area where the species is endemic and/or of commercial importance, only a single common name is used by the relevant legal, conservation, fisheries or local institutions, even though other common names may exist. Example: Atlantic salmon.
- 1(iv) The species has a common name that is normally separated from similar common names by use of geographical, descriptive, or other modifications to those names. Once differentiated, these names satisfy criteria i, ii, or iii above. Examples: Shovelnose sturgeon, Little shovelnose sturgeon, False shovelnose sturgeon.
Use the Latin name for any species that fails to satisfy criteria 1(i) to 1(iv), including such situations as the following:
- 2(i) The same common name is regularly applied to multiple species. Example: Green spotted puffer.
- 2(ii) There is no single common name used for the species. Example: Black widow tetra (a.k.a. Black tetra, Petticoat tetra).
- 2(iii) The species has different common names in different English-speaking countries. Example: Plec (UK), pleco (US).
- 2(iv) The species simply has no widely used common name. Example: Dermogenys sumatrana.
Guidelines
- Regardless of the title used, articles should include the scientific name in bold and italics and all significant English common names in bold in the first paragraph (and preferably the first sentence).
- The first paragraph should differentiate the fish from other species with which it might be confused. This may be done by explaining the ambiguity, with links to other fish (e.g., at tilapia), or by mentioning geographical distribution, for example:
- The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as the millionsfish, is a small fresh and brackish water fish from Central America.
- Disambiguate species that might be confused by using a disambiguation hatnote (e.g., at freshwater hatchetfish). A simple form of disambiguation hatnote is:
- This article is about the <put text>; for the <put text> see <put link>.
- Create a disambiguation page when the ambiguity involves many fish and a hatnote would be too long. Example: Tigerfish.
- Before renaming articles, discuss the reasons for doing so on the Talk page. In cases of disputed naming, where a consensus cannot be reached on the article's Talk page, the matter should be discussed at WikiProject Fishes to allow a consensus decision to be reached.
Regional lists of species
Lists of fish species should follow the form: List of fishes of <Region>. The definite article may be needed for the name of some regions. Note that "List of fish of ..." is incorrect when dealing with a list of the species.
Higher taxa
Articles on taxa above species should be titled using the common name, if one exists and is unambiguous. Otherwise, the scientific epithet should be used. When FishBase or other references give a common name of "xes and ys" or "xes or ys" for a higher taxon, the scientific epithet (possibly anglicized) should be used for the article title.
Articles on taxa above the generic level should be titled with the Latin form of the name and not the anglicization, e.g. Cyprinidae not cyprinid, and Perciformes not perciform. The anglicizations may be freely used in article text however.
Taxonomy
Taxonomy at the level of genera and species should follow FishBase. Higher-level classification should follow the 2016 fifth edition of Fishes of the World by J.S. Nelson, T.C. Grande and M.V.H. Wilson for consistency. If applicable, disputes in classification should be noted in article text.
- Note: When listing the species authority (the author(s) who originally named the species or subspecies of interest), in the taxobox or elsewhere, parentheses matter. For example, "Foogenus fishii Smith, 1900" has a subtly different meaning than "Foogenus fishii (Smith, 1900)". Parentheses indicate that Smith originally placed fishii in a different genus, and the species was subsequently placed in Foogenus. See more at Binomial nomenclature and Template:Taxobox#Authorities (Animalia usage).
Categorization
Wikipedia categories should be created for well-known families, using the plural of the common name of the family (Category:Centrarchidae or Category:Cyprinidae), and for orders, using the common name (e.g., Category:Catfishes) or the scientific epithet (e.g., Category:Cyprinodontiformes). For very small families (e.g., the pygmy sunfishes), only the order category may be used, but usage must be consistent among members of a family.
Article format
Taxoboxesedit
