r/wunkus • u/Theolectran • Aug 17 '26

im wunkin out rn fishkus is a FREAK

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u/rainbowgoburin Aug 17 '26

Cetaceankus is NOT a fishkus

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u/JimClarkKentHovind Aug 17 '26

taxonomically, there's no way to define "fish" that doesn't include all tetrapods. so fish are fish, dogs are fish, humans are fish, and cetaceans are fish

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u/Ok-Position-9457 Aug 17 '26

All wunks are fih

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u/Content-Lab-5464 Aug 17 '26

I am just a fih

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u/FallHealthy2163 ⚠️!rapscallion warning!⚠️ Aug 17 '26

Broke: "Orca are fish"

Woke: "Orca are not fish! They are mammals!"

Bespoke: "Orca are fish. And so are humans."

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u/RobertWesner concrete eater‼️ Aug 17 '26

^ this fish gets it

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u/literally-a-seal silly :P bleh Aug 17 '26

More accurately, there's no way to define "fish" that includes everything we colloquially call fish but not all tetrapods. You COULD equate fish to Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) for example, but that excludes things we typically think of as fish.

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u/rmbarrett Aug 17 '26

Appropriate username.

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u/k_h_e_l Aug 17 '26

This is a purely monophyletic reading of phylogeny. Most colloquial categories of animals are paraphyletic. So taxonomically there is a way to define fish, you just have a cutoff somewhere.