Marine

Antarctic starry skate

Amblyraja georgiana

The body is relatively thick and heavy. The snout is rather short. The rostral cartilage is …

Atlantic spiny lumpsucker

Eumicrotremus spinosus

The Atlantic spiny lumpsucker has a bloated anterior body that is completely covered with regular rows …

Atlantic wolffish

Anarhichas lupus

The body of the Atlantic wolffish is elongated, tapering to the tail, and covered with fine …

Barbelthroat carpetshark

Cirrhoscyllium expolitum

Sharks have a slender, elongated body and a long, slightly pointed snout. The throat has characteristic …

Black marlin

Istiompax indica

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

Brackish water frogfish

Antennarius biocellatus

Antennarius biocellatus has a second dorsal process that is longer than the first, the illicium, and …

Chilean jack mackerel

Trachurus murphyi

They have an elongated and laterally compressed body. The head is large, with well-developed transparent protective …

Dwarf black stingray

Hemitrygon parvonigra

These rays have a pointed snout in the shape of a broad triangle. Behind the large …

Giant grouper

Epinephelus lanceolatus

The body is powerful. The height of the body is 2.4-3.4 times the length of the …

Giant sea catfish

Arius gigas

Described by George Albert Boulenger in 1911, originally as genus Tachysurus. Body elongate and rounded; head …

Greasy grouper

Epinephelus tauvina

The body of the greasy grouper is massive, elongated and oval in cross-section. In juveniles it …

Indian halibut

Psettodes erumei

The body of the Indian halibut is oval in shape, compressed at the sides, but thicker …

Indo-Pacific king mackerel

Scomberomorus guttatus

They have an elongated, spindle-shaped body with a thin caudal stem with simple keel. Teeth are …

Japanese Spanish mackerel

Scomberomorus niphonius

Japanese Spanish mackerel have a spindle-shaped body, compressed at the sides. The swim bladder is absent. …

John Dory

Zeus faber

The body of John Dory is oval in shape, very deep, and strongly compressed laterally. Along …

Longtail tuna

Thunnus tonggol

The longtail's body is torpedo-shaped, elongated, high in the midsection and tapering sharply towards the tail. …

Melanocetus rossi

Melanocetus rossi

Distinguishing features of female: almost straight anterior margin of scopus; smallest external width between anterior teeth …

Orca

Orcinus orca

The Latin orca is thought to derive from the Greek ὄρυξ - a word used by …

Prickly shark

Echinorhinus cookei

They have a flabby, cylindrical body (adultsharks are much more massive than juveniles) and a short, …

Rhynchactis macrothrix

Rhynchactis macrothrix

The long-filament whipnose anglerfish has an elongated, slightly compressed body with a small head that is …

Saposhnikovi shad

Alosa saposchnikowii

This fish has a typical "shad-like" body shape. A key identifying feature is its head, which …

Scorpionfish, California

Scorpaena guttata

The fish has a stocky and slightly compressed body, as well as a large head and …

Snapper, Yellowtail

Ocyrus chrysurus

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

Spearfish, Shortbill

Tetrapturus angustirostris

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