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Do fish have necks?

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The whole fish is its neck
 

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It rather depends on the type of fish, doesn't it?

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I don't believe so, but I once dreamed that trout had lips.
 

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Fish have necks. They just don't have shoulders. Wouldn't gill rings or studs be cooler? How about a tat between the eyes?
 

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The Oxford dictionary defines a neck as, "The part of a person's or animal's body connecting the head to the rest of the body." Well, fish definitely have a head and they have a body so is the vertebral bone that connects the head to the body the neck? Do you have to have range of motion for it to be considered a neck? I've found a few articles that talk about this fish called Tiktaalik which supposedly is the first fish to have a neck which means that fish generally don't have necks? :unsure: I may go by the zoology department at my university and ask as I haven't found a definitive answer online. I'd feel rather species insensitive to be making a necklace for a neckless fish.

You all have started me in one wondering about quite a few others things as well . . . :thinking:
 

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The ichthyologist (that I'm sure thought I was crazy) informed me that fish do not have necks with exception to seahorses. They were actually pretty helpful and good humored about answering so *thumbs up* for ichthyologists!
 

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This appears to be the anatomical definition of neck "A narrow or constricted part of a structure, as of a bone or organ, that joins its parts; a cervix." Several sources seem to have similar definitions. So unless the fish has an area that constricts there is no neck, range of motion is meaningless. This does seem to agree with what Pinker85 posted.
 
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