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Aquatic Animals

Aquatic animals are animals that inhabit water environments, including the oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, and wetlands, and that depend on these habitats for respiration, feeding, reproduction, and shelter. They span an enormous diversity of forms, from invertebrates such as molluscs, crustaceans, and zooplankton to f…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 157× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2643-0282 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Aquatic animals are animals that inhabit water environments, including the oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, and wetlands, and that depend on these habitats for respiration, feeding, reproduction, and shelter. They span an enormous diversity of forms, from invertebrates such as molluscs, crustaceans, and zooplankton to fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and marine mammals, and occupy every level of aquatic food webs, frequently forming the productive base on which larger species and human fisheries depend. Adaptations to aquatic life include gills and other structures for extracting dissolved oxygen, mechanisms for osmotic and buoyancy regulation, and sensory systems suited to underwater conditions. Within marine science, aquatic animals are studied in relation to population dynamics, reproduction, and the ecological roles they play, as well as the pressures that threaten them. Major concerns include the effects of pollutants and contaminants accumulating in tissues, the adverse impact of anthropogenic underwater sound on fishes and invertebrates, habitat degradation, and the management of exploited stocks such as salmon and farmed species. Research therefore combines ecology, physiology, toxicology, and fisheries science to understand how aquatic animals respond to environmental change and human activity. By characterising their biology and the threats they face, the study of aquatic animals informs conservation, sustainable fisheries management, and the protection of aquatic ecosystems and the services they provide.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 157 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Aquatic Animals, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Marine Science Journal (ISSN 2643-0282).

Journal editorial board
Begoña Martínez-Crego · Portugal Timo Arula · Estonia Raffaella Casotti · Italy

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