Fish living in the Atlantic Ocean

Guitarfish, Atlantic

Rhinobatos lentiginosus

The head and pectoral fins form a triangular disk at the front of the body. The …

Haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Haddock has three dorsal fins and two anal fins. The first dorsal fin is high and …

Hagfish

Myxine glutinosa

Fish-like vertebrates, jawless fish are similar in shape to eels, with a cartilaginous or fibrous skeleton …

Hake, Red

Urophycis chuss

The body of the red hake is elongated. The caudal fin is truncated. There is a …

Hake, Silver

Merluccius bilinearis

The body is long and slender, with a flattened head, a large mouth, and strong, sharp …

Halfbeaks and Balao

Hemiramphus balao and Hyporhamphus unifasciatus

The body is elongated, rounded, and flattened laterally only in the tail area. The dorsal and …

Halibut, Atlantic

Hippoglossus hippoglossus

The body is elongated broad, somewhat flattened, oval, bordered by long dorsal and anal fins. Head …

Herring, Atlantic

Clupea harengus

The body is not high (its height is about 1/5 of body length). Head is comparatively …

Hind, Rock

Epinephelus adscensionis

It has a coloration from tan to olive-brown, with many large reddish or dark spots covering …

Jack, Almaco

Seriola rivoliana

The body and fins may be a uniform dark brown, dark bluish-green, bronze, or metallic gray, …

Jack, Bar

Caranx ruber

The Bar jack is silvery, with a dark bluish stripe on the back that runs from …

Jack, Crevalle; Jack, Pacific Crevalle

Caranx hippos; Caranx caninus

Both species are bluish-green or greenish gold on the back and silvery or yellowish on the …

Jack, Horse-eye

Caranx latus

The horse-eye is silvery, with yellow caudal fins and usually darker edges on the dorsal and …

Jack, Yellow

Caranx bartholomaei

Silver with a yellow cast, the yellow jack has a bluish back and strongly yellowed flanks, …

Killifish

Fundulus heteroclitus

The fins have soft rays like cyprinids, but killifish have scales on the head and no …

Ladyfish

Elops saurus

The ladyfish has an elongated, slender, silvery body with a blue-green back and fine scales. It …

Lookdown

Selene vomer

Brightly silvery and iridescent, it has a deep and extremely compressed body, which can have golden, …

Lumpfish

Cyclopterus lumpus

Lumpfish has a tall, thick body, but noticeably compressed from the sides, abdomen flattened. The head …

Mackerel, Atlantic

Scomber scombrus

The body is fusiform, slightly compressed from the sides. The scales are fine, cycloidal. The length …

Mackerel, Cero

Scomberomorus regalis

The body shape is typical of king mackerel. The mackerel is iridescent bluish-green above and silvery …

Mackerel, Frigate

Auxis thazard

Body shape is similar to A. rochti. The "corset" in the posterior part is narrow, no …

Mackerel, King

Scomberomorus cavalla

The body is torpedo-shaped, compressed from the sides. The lower jaw is slightly protruded forward relative …

Mackerel, Spanish

Scomberomorus maculatus

The slender, elongated body of the Spanish mackerel is silver with a bluish or olive green …

Marlin, Blue

Makaira nigricans and Makaira mazara

The pectoral fins of the blue marlin are never rigid, even after death, and can be …