Allfishes
Agujon needlefish
Tylosurus acus
The three subspecies have been given species rank as tentatively accepted names pending further work on …
Marine
Guide to marine fish with sorting and selection options by family, feeding method, size, and other important characteristics.
Showing 1–24 of 30
Atlantic saury
Scomberesox saurus
Representatives of this species are characterised by highly elongated beak-like jaws, very small teeth, elongated bodies …
Atlantic stargazer
Uranoscopus scaber
The body is spindle-shaped. The swim bladder is absent. Its head and jaws are turned upwards …
Backspot flyingfish
Cheilopogon dorsomacula
The body of the backspot flyingfish is elongated, and the snout is blunt. The swim bladder …
Black swallower
Chiasmodon niger
No scales. Musculature poorly developed. The body is elongated and compressed. The head is long with …
Black wing flyingfish
Hirundichthys rondeletii
The Black Wing Flyingfish has an elongated body, almost rectangular in cross section, with a somewhat …
Black-barred halfbeak
Hemiramphus far
Black-barred halfbeaks have a laterally compressed body with an elongated oval cross-section. They have a very …
Bluntnose sixgill shark
Hexanchus griseus
The bluntnose sixgill shark has a dense, spindle-shaped body and a broad head with a blunt …
Broadnose sevengill shark
Notorynchus cepedianus
The broadnose sevengill shark has a large, fusiform (spindle-shaped) body with a wide, rounded head and …
Crocodile needlefish
Tylosurus crocodilus
These fish are known to have 270-340 anterior scales and 75-80 vertebrae. The jaws are extremely …
Flat needlefish
Ablennes hians
The body of the flat needlefish is elongated, strongly compressed at the sides, and covered with …
Flyingfish, Atlantic Flyingfish
Cypselurus heterurus
The flyingfish has normal-length jaws, unlike these other species; the fins are soft rayed and spineless; …
Frilled shark
Chlamydoselachus anguineus
The frilled shark is named for the wide skin folds formed by gill fibres covering the …
Garfish
Belone belone
It has an elongated, narrow, eel-like body that resembles that of a needlefish. The scales are …
Greater weever
Trachinus draco
Elongated with a large angular head, a groundfish. The mouth is relatively large and slanted upwards. …
Halfbeaks and Balao
Hemiramphus balao and Hyporhamphus unifasciatus
The body is elongated, rounded, and flattened laterally only in the tail area. The dorsal and …
Houndfish
Tylosurus crocodilus
The main difference between this fish and other members of the genus Tylosurus is that the …
Japanese halfbeak
Hyporhamphus sajori
The Japanese halfbeak received its name due to the unique structure of its jaws, which defines …
Keel-jawed needlefish
Tylosurus acus
Vertebrae: 90-95. The canines of the upper jaw point straight down rather than forward. Both jaws …
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. …
Needlefish
Atlantic Needlefish
The most characteristic features of needlefish are elongated upper and lower jaws with numerous needle-like teeth. …
Oceanic two-wing flyingfish
Exocoetus obtusirostris
Externally, Exocoetus obtusirostris is similar to the tropical Exocoetus volitans, with which it shares much of …
Red Sea houndfish
Tylosurus choram
Tylosurus: Greek, tylos = callus + Greek, oura = tail.The species name "choram" is Arabic for …