Allfishes
Alaska plaice
Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus
The ocellar bony ridge of the Alaska plaice is divided into 4-8 bony tubercles and forms …
Marine
Guide to marine fish with sorting and selection options by family, feeding method, size, and other important characteristics.
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Black-striped pipefish
Syngnathus abaster
The black-striped pipefish possesses a highly elongated, slender body. Its elongated, pipette-like snout is slightly flattened …
Blackline fangblenny
Meiacanthus nigrolineatus
Meiacanthus: Greek, meion = less = lessen + Greek, akantha = thorn. Blackline Fangblenny have an …
Bogue
Boops boops
Has an elongated body, compressed at the sides, covered with small scales. Dorsal spines: 13-15; Dorsal …
Broad-banded Pipefish
Dunckerocampus boylei
The species name is in honor of Bill Boyle, an underwater photographer who brought the species …
Brushtooth lizardfish
Saurida undosquamis
Saurida: Derived from Greek, sauros = lizard.Brush-toothed lizardfish have a cigar-shaped, rounded or slightly compressed body. …
Chameleon goby
Tridentiger trigonocephalus
The body is elongated, relatively low and somewhat compressed at the sides. The cheeks, gill covers …
Common dab
Limanda limanda
A distinctive feature of the common dab is the lateral line with a curve above the …
Croaker, Atlantic
Micropogonias undulatus
Body is rather massive, back is elevated and compressed. Head is long, snout is protruded forward …
Emperor angelfish
Pomacanthus imperator
It has an oval body, slightly elongated, strongly compressed at the sides. The mouth is elongated, …
Fourspine stickleback
Apeltes quadracus
The fourspine stickleback possesses an elongated, fusiform body lacking scales. Typically, it exhibits four or five …
Hooknose
Agonus cataphractus
The Hooknose broad head and body are covered with stiff bony plates that limit its flexibility. …
Humpback whitefish
Coregonus pidschian
The body of the humpback whitefish becomes more pronounced with age, growing taller. A well-defined hump …
Indo-Pacific oval flounder
Bothus myriaster
The body of the Indo-Pacific oval flounder is oval, strongly compressed. Caudal peduncle narrow, much more …
Japanese icefish
Salangichthys microdon
Since 2012, the species has been placed within the monotypic genus Salangichthys. Until a recent revision, …
Long-tailed ghost pipefish
Solenostomus armatus
Solenostomus: Greek, solen = tube + Greek, stoma = mouth. The species name comes from the …
Meggitt's goby
Bathygobius meggitti
Characteristics of Meggitt's goby: body shape spindle-shaped; longitudinal row of scales 34-40; predorsal scales 14-19, reaching …
Ocellaris clownfish
Amphiprion ocellaris
The body is stocky and oval in shape. It is compressed at the sides and has …
Papuan toby
Canthigaster papua
This species can be confused with Canthigaster solandri. It has an elongated body that tapers sharply …
Peled
Coregonus peled
The peled can be easily distinguished from other whitefish by its terminal mouth, in which the …
Princess parrotfish
Scarus taeniopterus
Known for their beak-shaped jaws that fuse with their teeth. Their individual teeth allow them to …
Purple-spotted wrasse
Iniistius jacksonensis
Iniistius: Latin, in = in + Greek, istion = sail.This species is characterised by the following …
Redtoothed triggerfish
Odonus niger
The body is diamond shaped, slightly flattened at the sides. Tail bifurcated, very long, often with …
Ring-eye pygmygoby
Trimma benjamini
This species is characterized by the presence of the following features: Deep concave "U" shaped interorbital …