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 …

Ayu sweetfish

Plecoglossus altivelis

Vertebrae: 60-63. Blind gutters 350-400. Has small leaf-shaped teeth loosely attached to the jaw by two …

Barbelthroat carpetshark

Cirrhoscyllium expolitum

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

Beautiful Dartfish

Ptereleotris kallista

The name comes from a Greek word meaning 'most beautiful'. It has 26 vertebrae. This species …

Common sole

Solea solea

The genus and species names come from the Latin Sole, meaning 'sole', because of the similarity …

Dwarf black stingray

Hemitrygon parvonigra

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

Indian halibut

Psettodes erumei

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

Longtail seamoth

Pegasus volitans

The body of the longtail seamoth is strongly depressed, its depth being 13–14 times in standard …

Narrowtail moray

Gymnothorax angusticauda

The Narrowtail moray was first named by Weber and de Beaufort in 1916. They have 143 …

Orangemouth Corvina

Cynoscion xanthulus

They usually have a silvery-sand coloration that blends in with their surroundings. Most of them are …

Prickly shark

Echinorhinus cookei

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

Razorfish

Aeoliscus strigatus

Body very strongly compressed laterally, with sharp ventral edge; dorsal profile of body straight; almost completely …

Red Sea garden eel

Gorgasia sillneri

The Red Sea garden eel has an extremely elongated, cylindrical body shape. It is particularly long …

White Cloud Mountain minnow

Tanichthys albonubes

Body elongated in length, slender, slightly flattened at the sides in front. Muzzle blunt, lips thin, …

Wolffish: Atlanitc Wolffish

Anarhichas lupus

The wolffish has no pelvic fins, and the dorsal fin, which begins just behind the head, …

Yellowfin seabream

Acanthopagrus latus

Yellowfin seabream have a deep body with a standard length twice its depth. The dorsal part …