Marine

Atlantic stargazer

Uranoscopus scaber

The body is spindle-shaped. The swim bladder is absent. Its head and jaws are turned upwards …

Black marlin

Istiompax indica

The body is elongated, not strongly compressed at the sides, covered with dense, thick, elongated scales …

Black swallower

Chiasmodon niger

No scales. Musculature poorly developed. The body is elongated and compressed. The head is long with …

Great barracuda

Sphyraena barracuda

Characteristic of this fish is a large head with a massive lower jaw. Great Barracuda, one …

Greater weever

Trachinus draco

Elongated with a large angular head, a groundfish. The mouth is relatively large and slanted upwards. …

Guaguanche

Sphyraena guachancho

Silver-olive-brown on top, it has silvery flanks with a yellow-gold band running along the middle of …

Indo-Pacific blue marlin

Makaira mazara

The snout is long. The lateral line is looped and almost indistinguishable in adults. Vertebrae: 24. …

Indo-Pacific sailfish

Istiophorus platypterus

This species is characterised by the following features: slender, elongated and rather compressed, with a high, …

Japanese barracuda

Sphyraena japonica

The body of the Japanese barracuda is elongated, rounded, slightly compressed at the sides, and covered …

Lesser weever

Echiichthys vipera

It has an elongated body, compressed at the sides; its height exceeds ⅕ of the body …

Marbled stargazer

Uranoscopus bicinctus

They have a large head, flat on top, covered laterally and on top with flat tubercles. …

Marlin, Blue

Makaira nigricans and Makaira mazara

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

Marlin, Striped

Tetrapturus audax

The body of the striped marlin is elongated and compressed, and its upper jaw is elongated …

Marlin, White

Tetrapturus albidus

The body is powerful, elongated, strongly flattened from the sides. Snout in form of elongated, rostrum, …

Sailfish

Istiophorus platypterus

Body elongated, compressed from sides. Snout in form of elongated, spear-shaped rostrum, round in cross-section. The …

Sennets

Sphyraena borealis

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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. …

Swordfish

Xiphias gladius

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

Two-spined yellow-tail stargazer

Uranoscopus cognatus

The species is named in honor of Theodore Cantor — a Danish physician, zoologist, and botanist …