Marine

Guide to marine fish with sorting and selection options by family, feeding method, size, and other important characteristics.

Genus

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Alosa kessleri

The body of the Caspian anadromous shad is stout, noticeably rounded, with a particularly elongated caudal …

Oncorhynchus masou

It has a spindle-shaped, streamlined, somewhat laterally compressed body covered with fine scales. There are 130-240 …

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

The body is elongated and somewhat compressed. The head is cone-shaped . It has a bluish …

Oncorhynchus keta

The mouth is large, with the maxillary bone reaching backwards to the vertical of the posterior …

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Head thick, forehead broad. The tail stem is high. In the sea and when entering rivers, …

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

Pink salmon are known as "humpback" because of their distorted, extremely humped appearance, which is caused …

Oncorhynchus nerka

The slimmest and most streamlined of the Pacific salmon, which are elongated and somewhat compressed from …

Alosa saposchnikowii

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

Alosa alabamae

It has a large terminal mouth with upper and lower jaws of almost equal length. The …

Alosa sapidissima

The laterally compressed, rather deep body of the American shad is silvery white, with some amount …

Alosa mediocris

Gray-green on the back and transitioning to silver on the sides, the hickory shad has transparent …

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Steelhead are usually slender and streamlined. The dorsal coloration is mostly blue-green with an olive hue, …