The name zebrafish applies to several different kinds of fish with striped bodies considered to resemble a zebra: Species Equus zebra Equus quagga Equus hartmannae Equus grevyi Zebras (members of the Horse family), are native to central and southern Africa. ...

• Brachydanio rerio, also called Danio rerio or the Zebra Danio, is a commonly used model organism in studies of biological development.
• Pterois volitans, also called the Lionfish or Dragonfish.

The zebrafish is especially useful to biologists because the body of the developing embryo is transparent. Thus, it is easy to observe the animal's development, or trace the metabolism of a particular substance, without interfering with the animal. For this reason, a tremendous amount of genetics, developmental biology and other biological research has been completed using the zebrafish as a model system. Binomial name Danio rerio (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822) The Zebra Danio or Zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio or Danio rerio) is a tropical fish, commonly kept in aquaria and used for scientific research, belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae). ... A model organism is a species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms. ... Developmental biology or embryology (Greek εμβρυολογία) is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. ... Binomial name Pterois volitans Linnaeus, 1758 The Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific oceans. ... Lionfish, Melbourne Aquarium Lionfish in Red Sea near Hurghada Clearfin lionfish, Pterois Radiata lionfish in Andaman sea A Lionfish is any of several species of venomous marine fish in the genera Pterois or Dendrochirus, family Scorpaenidae. ... The common name dragonfish may refer to several unrelated groups of fishes: Barbeled dragonfishes, small bioluminescent deep-sea stomiiform fishes of the family Stomiidae Arowana, large freshwater osteoglossiform fishes of the family Osteoglossidae Lionfishes, showy, venomous marine scorpaeniform fishes of the genera Pterois and Dendrochirus, family Scorpaenidae Several species of... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Publications

Zebrafish, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., is the only peer-reviewed journal to focus on the zebrafish and other aquarium fish model species including medaka, Fugu and Xiphophorus. The physical characteristics and genetic tools and reagents that are available for use with these fish species make them ideal vertebrate models for studies of embryo development, comparative genomics, evolution, and toxicology and other areas of research. Due to its favorable qualities, the zebrafish has become one of the primary model species used for human disease-related research that is supported by the National Institutes of Health.