Fish living in the Atlantic Ocean

Sharks, Sharpnose

Rhizoprionodon species

It has a characteristic long and flattened snout and a slender brown to olive-gray body with …

Sheepshead

Archosargus probatocephalus

The body is comparatively short and high. Head is high. Mouth almost horizontal, small or medium-sized, …

Silversides

Leuresthes tenuis

All fish lack a lateral line and have small, almost useless teeth. The pelvic fins are …

Sleepers

Gobiomorus dormitor

Sleepers are closely related to gobies, although they do not have the usual gobies sucking disc, …

Smelt

Osmerus eperlanus

Like salmon and trout, the smelt has a spiny adipose fin just in front of the …

Smelt, Rainbow

Osmerus mordax

A slender, silvery fish with a pale green or olive green back. When fresh, the sides …

Snapper, Cubera

Lutjanus cyanopterus

The body is elongated, short. Mouth with large lips. Both jaws have fang-like teeth. The teeth …

Snapper, Gray

Lutjanus griseus

The body is short, the snout is long and pointed. The front pair of canines on …

Snapper, Lane

Lutjanus synagris

Body is moderately high. The snout is pointed, and the lower jaw protrudes forward. Bases of …

Snapper, Mutton

Lutjanus analis

Body is moderately high. Head is pointed. There are fang-like teeth on both jaws. There are …

Snapper, Red

Lutjanus campechanus

Body is moderately high. Eyes small. Nostrils without tubes, situated close to each other. The anal …

Snapper, Yellowtail

Ocyrus chrysurus

The body is short, the head is relatively small, the upper jaw slightly protrudes forward over …

Snook, Common

Centropomus undecimalis

A silvery fish with a yellow-green or olive hue, it has a streamlined and slender body …

Snook: Fat Snook, Swordspine Snook, Tarpon Snook

Centropomus parallelus, Centropomus ensiferus, Centropomus pectinatus

The fat snook has a deeper body than other snook, although it is not severely compressed. …

Spadefish; Atlantic Spadefish

Chaetodipterus faber

Their body is very flattened and almost as deep as it is long. The first, or …

Spearfish, Longbill

Tetrapturus pfluegeri

Spearfish can be distinguished from other fish species by their slender, light body, short beak, and …

Spearfish, Mediterranean

Tetrapturus belone

Body powerful, elongated, strongly flattened from sides: snout in form of elongated, lance-shaped, rounded in cross-section …

Spearfish, Shortbill

Tetrapturus angustirostris

Body is powerful, elongated, strongly flattened from sides, its height is 8,3-10,4 times of body length. …

Spot

Leiostomus xanthurus

The spot body is short, tall, and compressed, and the tail is slightly forked. The dorsum …

Striped Anchovy

Anchoa hepsetus

The striped anchovy has a ribbon-like stripe along each side and some yellow near the head. …

Sturgeon, Atlantic

Acipenser oxyrinchus

The Atlantic sturgeon is dark brown or olive green with a white belly. The head is …

Sunfish, Ocean

Mola mola

The short, strongly laterally compressed body is disk-shaped. Thick skin is covered with small bony tubercles. …

Swordfish

Xiphias gladius

The swordfish has a strong, rather rounded body and large eyes. The first dorsal fin is …

Tarpon

Megalops atlanticus

The body of the tarpon is elongated and contracted, covered with large major scales and a …