do fish have teeth?

Question

just wondering?like goldfish
and platties?

Answer 1

This may come as a surprise to all the others who've answered, but both types of fish DO have teeth! (Evidently no one looked up the answer!).

They aren't teeth like you'd normally think teeth (front of the mouth used for chewing like a piranha"a or northern pike's, but smaller and located in the back of the mouth. These are called pharyngeal teeth. They occur on the insides of the gill arches and in some species on the roof of the mouth. You can see them in this photo of a goldfish I found on the web: http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m103/katalyst_x/beastieteeth.jpg and from a type of sucker, a close-up (kind of gross!): http://www.tnfish.org/PhotoGalleryFish_TWRA/FishPhotoGallery_TWRA/pages/RiverRedhorsePharyngealTeethTellicoNegus_jpg.htm

Pharyngeal teeth are very important in the identification of many of the minnow species - the number of teeth and number of rows are about all you have to go by in some that look nearly identical otherwise - and this is written in a "shorthand" as something like "2,3", meaning the first row has two teeth, the second has three. I had to look at plenty of them when I too a fish identification class when I was in college.

Just google a search for "goldfish teeth" and "platy teeth" if you doubt that either of these have teeth.

Answer 2

Do Fish Have Teeth

Answer 3

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Yes. The Barracuda would be a good example of that. But on the home front, the parrot fish and the puffer fish are common salt water fish that have huge teeth that they use to really tear up other fish. There are even fresh water varieties of the puffer. Even fish with no teeth can sometime have a genetic throw back and be born with one. What a surpise that was for me to find out... ouch. LOL

Answer 4

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RE:
do fish have teeth?
just wondering?like goldfish
and platties?

Answer 5

some, but the ones u listed dont.

my silver needle fishes and gars do have teeth that you can see. Not really big, but they are visible when the fishes mouth is open.

So it depends from species to species, as some fishes dont normally eat meaty foods, so have no need for those kind of teeth.

Answer 6

Most fish have teeth, but some do not e.g. seahorses. Bony fish have a wide variety of teeth, their structure is similar to ours.

Answer 7

No, goldfish and platy's do not, but some fish do have teeth.

Answer 8

is there ways of seeing a pic of a sucker fish?

Answer 9

NO they don't wondering how they eat? Well they use their mouth as a sucker that sucks up food! They clearly dont have teeth!http://www.flippersandfins.net/Images/GoldieMouthSuction.JPG
go to this web it will show you how goldfishes open it's mouth which looks like a sucking tube.
Hope this answer you interesting question
~ME~

Answer 10

i dont think goldfish do.
some fish do and some dont, like piranha have teeth obviously but more domestic fish dont.