Marine

Alaska pollock

Gadus chalcogrammus

Alaska pollack have very large eyes and a very short tendril under the lower lip. The …

Arabian carpetshark

Chiloscyllium arabicum

The Arabian carpetshark has a slender, almost cylindrical body and a relatively long, thick, rounded snout. …

Arabian smooth-hound

Mustelus mosis

The Arabian smooth-hound has a short head and a rather slender body. The distance from the …

Bignose shark

Carcharhinus altimus

They have a heavy body with a relatively long, broad and blunt snout with pronounced nostril …

Bluntnose sixgill shark

Hexanchus griseus

The bluntnose sixgill shark has a dense, spindle-shaped body and a broad head with a blunt …

Bombay duck

Harpadon nehereus

The body is pronghorn, compressed from the sides, without scales in the front part, soft to …

Bonefish

Albula vulpes

The body, except for the head, is covered with rather fine scales. The back is dark …

Brown meagre

Sciaena umbra

The body of the Brown meagre is elongated, tall, with a humped back, somewhat compressed laterally, …

Brownbanded bamboo shark

Chiloscyllium punctatum

The brownbanded bamboo shark has a slender cylindrical body with no lateral or dorsal protrusions. The …

Chevron butterflyfish

Chaetodon trifascialis

Adults have an elongated body. Because of the peculiar age-dependent coloration and the elongated silhouette, this …

Common percarina

Percarina demidoffii

Externally the fish resembles Gymnocephalus. Life expectancy is 3-4 years. The body is elongated, rather tall, …

Coral catshark

Atelomycterus marmoratus

The Coral Catshark has a very slender, cylindrical, dense body and a short, narrow head. The …

Dunkleosteus

Dunkleosteus terrelli

Dunkleosteus terrelli is an extinct species of arthrodire placoderm, a group of ancient armored fish that …

False killer whale

Pseudorca crassidens

The head is rounded, with a melon-shaped forehead. The body is elongated. The upper jaw is …

Greenland halibut

Reinhardtius hippoglossoides

The body is elongated and covered with fine cycloid scales. The eyes are located on the …

Grey sharpnose shark

Rhizoprionodon oligolinx

The grey sharpnose shark has a slender body with a long, pointed snout and large, round …

Grouper, Black

Mycteroperca bonaci

Depending on its habitat, the black grouper may be olive, gray, or reddish-brown or black in …

Grouper, Warsaw

Epinephelus nigritus

The Warsaw grouper has a gray-brown to dark red-brown body, sometimes irregularly mottled with several small …

Grouper, Yellowfin

Mycteroperca venenosa

The body is relatively tall and oval. The coloration of the yellowfin grouper is very variable: …

Guitarfish, Atlantic

Rhinobatos lentiginosus

The head and pectoral fins form a triangular disk at the front of the body. The …

Hake, Silver

Merluccius bilinearis

The body is long and slender, with a flattened head, a large mouth, and strong, sharp …

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin

Tursiops aduncus

Common bottlenose dolphins have a fairly stocky body, a medium-length beak, and high, curved dorsal fins, …

Indonesian wobbegong

Orectolobus leptolineatus

The Indonesian Wobbegong has a flattened and broad head and body. The nostrils are framed by …

Japanese puffer

Takifugu rubripes

The body is covered with barbs. Vertebrae: 21-22. This species is able to inflate into a …