The main difference between Fish and Prawn is that Fish identified by its lack of backbone, whereas Prawn identified by its shell and lack of spines.
Fishes are highly rich in fats and nutrition, while Prawns are less rich in fats and nutrition as compared to fishes.
Fishes may be cartilaginous and bony depending upon the bod;y on the flip side, Prawns has a carapace.
Fishes are limbless and possess fins; on the other hand, Prawns to have limbs and antennae.
The Fish body is deeded into three segments head, trunk, and tail, although the Prawn body divided into two segments head and abdomen.
Fishes are vertebrate, whereas Prawns are invertebrates with an exoskeleton.
Fishes have fins; rather, Prawns don’t have fins.
Fish possesses scales or skin; on the other hand, Prawn possesses exoskeleton like a carapace.
Scales surround the body of Fish. However, Prawns have a shell that covers their body. These shells are made up of 19 segments and divided into different body parts, i.e., cephalothorax and pleon, which means abdomen.
Fishes show higher species diversity than any other vertebrates group. However, Prawns found in freshwater and as well as in saltwater.
Fishes are endothermic and can be abundantly found in freshwater as well as in saltwater or marine water such as high mountains stream, deepest ocean, and abysmal while Prawns found in oceanic bed.
Fish contain 22-24grams of protein; on the flip side, Prawn contains 20grams of protein.
Fishes are cold-blooded animals and allowing their body to varying according to ambient temperature changes. At the same time, Prawn usually is the name of small aquatic crustaceans, some of which can be eaten by wild fishes.
Fishes are belonging to order according to their family e.g. order of salmon fish is salmoniformes, while large Prawns are belonging to the order dendrobranchiata.
Fish
Any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body and including the bony fishes, such as catfishes and tunas, and the cartilaginous fishes, such as sharks and rays.
Prawn
Any of various shrimps, especially one that is large or inhabits fresh water.
Fish
Any of various jawless aquatic craniates, including the lampreys and hagfishes.
Prawn
The flesh of a prawn, used as food.
Fish
The flesh of such animals used as food.
Fish
(Informal) A person, especially one considered deficient in something
A poor fish.
Prawn
A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
Fish
To catch or try to catch fish.
Prawn
(Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
Fish
To look for something by feeling one's way; grope
Fished in both pockets for a coin.
Prawn
Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
She's a prawn!
Fish
To seek something in a sly or indirect way
Fish for compliments.
Fish
To catch or try to catch (fish).
Prawn
Alternative form of porn.
Fish
To catch or try to catch fish in
Fish mountain streams.
Prawn
(intransitive) To fish for prawns.
Fish
To catch or pull as if fishing
Deftly fished the corn out of the boiling water.
Prawn
Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennæ. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palæmon, Palæmonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palæmon serratus.
Fish
(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Salmon is a fish.
The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.
We have many fish in our aquarium.
Prawn
Any of various edible decapod crustaceans
Fish
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
Prawn
Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
Fish
(Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
Fish
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
Fish
(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
Fish
An easy victim for swindling.
Fish
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
Fish
A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
Fish
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Fish
A torpedo self-propelled explosive device.
Fish
(zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
Fish
Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
Fish
Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
Fish
Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda))
Fish
(cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
Fish
(prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
Fish
A male homosexual; a gay man.
Fish
A period of time spent fishing.
The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
Fish
An instance of seeking something.
Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
Fish
(obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
Fish
(intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
She went to the river to fish for trout.
Fish
(transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
Fish
To use as bait when fishing.
Fish
(intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Why are you fishing through my things?
He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
Fish
To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
Fish
Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
Fish
To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
Fish
To hoist the flukes of.
Fish
A counter, used in various games.
Fish
A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
Fish
An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
Fish
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
Fish
The flesh of fish, used as food.
Fish
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Fish
To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
Fish
To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
Any other fishing question.
Fish
To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
Fish
To search by raking or sweeping.
Fish
To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
Fish
Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills;
The shark is a large fish
In the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish
Fish
The flesh of fish used as food;
In Japan most fish is eaten raw
After the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat
They have a chef who specializes in fish
Fish
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
Fish
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
Fish
Seek indirectly;
Fish for compliments
Fish
Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish;
I like to go fishing on weekends
Fishes have fins and scales on their body and also have a backbone and categorized as cold-blooded animals. Prawns don’t have scales on their skin and posses shell covering over their body. For respiration, fishes use their gills slits. Prawn respires through branching gills. Fishes don’t possess pincers in their mouth. Prawn posses long pincers in its mouth. Fishes are medium in size. Based on the size, prawns are classified as shrimps if they are small in size and classified as prawns if they are large-sized. Fish have a tail and move it side to side while swimming. Prawn has tail fins for swimming. Fish have fins instead of legs. Prawn has claws on its head.
There are some different types of fishes, such as salmon, tuna, etc. Prawns also have different types, such as tiger prawns, jumbo prawns, etc. Fish is a great source of omega-3, while prawn is a great source of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nutrients. Prawns also contain a variety of allergens and may also cover many diseases.
As a diet Fishes are lower in cholesterol, while Prawns are higher in cholesterol. Fishes are rich in vitamins. Prawns are not flush with vitamins. Fishes took as high calories and high fats diet. Prawns preferred due to lower calories and fats. Fishes have a skeletal structure of bone or cartilage. Prawns don’t have a skeletal structure; they possess an exoskeleton structure.
Fish is a member of the paraphyletic group, which consists of gills bearing animals whose exact relationships much debated. Fishes are classified groups according to their nature of structure such as cartilaginous fishes (Class Chondrichthyes 800 species including sharks and rays), bony fishes (Class Osteichthyes), and jawless fishes (Class Agnatha 75 species including lampreys and hagfish).
Mainly fishes are warm-blooded and large active swimmers such as shark and tuna; they can tolerate higher core temperatures. Fishes are both scavengers and predators. Fishes are full of nutrition and protein. Some fishes also feed on zooplanktons and phytoplanktons and hence rich in oils (Omega 3 fatty acids) — about 29,000 fish species making the most diverse group of vertebrates.
Eating fish is healthy for you; mostly salmon and tuna are most popular other than tilapia, cod and catfish are also good options to eat. Salmon and tuna are including in easy meals such as salads and sandwiches. American Heart Association recommends eating fish at least twice a week is good for your heart, providing you essential nutrients. Three ounces of fish will give you 110-160 grams of calories 22-24 grams of protein and other macronutrients like fats. Fish contains a slightly significant percentage of phosphorous, magnesium, zinc, and iron.
Prawns found in oceanic beds. Usually, prawns are related to “Decapod crustaceans” and found in both freshwaters and saltwater. Term decapods crustaceans mean creatures that have ten legs with exoskeleton or carapace from which they molt and grow. At some points, shrimps, also known as prawns. Prawns are large in size compared to shrimps and swimming crustaceans.
For the very first time, Term prawns used in the UK, commonwealth nations, and Ireland for large crustaceans such as “Shrimps that have commercial importance in the fish industry. The term shrimp and prawn mostly used interchangeably. According to the 1911 encyclopedia in the United States, a larger species such as Leander Serratus, the term prawn mostly misapplied to term shrimp. Although word prawn also used for freshwater shrimps, prawns are an important part of the ecological chain which is delicate and never exploited. Both prawns and shrimps are farmed, sold, and served all over the world. They are found in both cold and warm water from tropics to poles and either in fresh and saltwater, but more varieties found in freshwater.
