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Also known as fins, fish fin, fish fins, animal fin, animal fins
bony skin-covered spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish or aquatic mammal
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A fin is a bony, skin-covered structure that sticks out from a fish or aquatic mammal's body. Fins are important because they help these animals move, steer, and balance in the water.
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Research
23,330 papers- Developmental constraints on fin diversity.ReviewDevelopment, growth & differentiation · 2020Enny A, Flaherty K, Mori S et al.DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12670
- Form and Function of the Caudal Fin Throughout the Phylogeny of Fishes.ReviewIntegrative and comparative biology · 2021Giammona FFDOI: 10.1093/icb/icab127
- The art of fin regeneration in zebrafish.ReviewRegeneration (Oxford, England) · 2015Pfefferli C, Jaźwińska ADOI: 10.1002/reg2.33
- Fin ray patterns at the fin-to-limb transition.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Stewart TA, Lemberg JB, Taft NK et al.DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915983117
- Fin Whales, Balaenoptera physalus: At Home in a Changing Mediterranean Sea?ReviewAdvances in marine biology · 2016Notarbartolo di Sciara G, Castellote M, Druon JN et al.DOI: 10.1016/bs.amb.2016.08.002
- Integrated 2D multi-fin field-effect transistors.Nature communications · 2024Yu M, Tan C, Yin Y et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47974-2
- A bioinspired fish fin webbing for proprioceptive feedback.Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2025Bruns A, Flammang BE, Papotti G et al.DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ada1bb
- Caudal fin shape imprinted during late zebrafish embryogenesis is re-patterned by the Sonic hedgehog pathway.PLoS biology · 2025Surette E, Donahue J, Soto Martinez C et al.DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003336
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Ray fins on a teleost fish, Hector's lanternfish
(1) pectoral fins (paired), (2) pelvic fins (paired), (3) dorsal fin, (4) adipose fin, (5) anal fin, (6) caudal (tail) fin
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