Why are shrimps and crabs not fish?

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Why are sharks fish?

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Vertebrate vs invertebrate is strongly used as a distinction in taxonomy. Fish have backbones. So do sharks. So sharks can be ‘fish’.

Shrimp and crabs have no backbone, so they are not considered ‘fish’.

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