Marine

Roughtail stingray

Bathytoshia centroura

The snout of the roughtail ray is blunt and slightly elongated. Behind the small eyes are …

Round ribbontail ray

Taeniurops meyeni

The pectoral fins of these rays fuse with the head to form a thick oval disc …

Sailfish

Istiophorus platypterus

Body elongated, compressed from sides. Snout in form of elongated, spear-shaped rostrum, round in cross-section. The …

Shark, Blacktip

Carcharhinus limbatus

Dark bluish-gray on the back and whitish underneath, with a distinctive silvery-white stripe on each side. …

Shark, Bull

Carcharhinus leucas

The Bull shark gets its name from its bull-like head and is known for its heavy …

Shark, Lemon

Negaprion brevirostris

It is usually yellow-brown, but can also be a dirty dark brown or dark gray with …

Shark, Porbeagle

Lamna nasus

The porbeagle has a strong, cobalt blue body with a perfectly conical snout ending in a …

Sheephead, California

Semicossyphus pulcher

The body is elongated, strong and compressed. This species is hermaphroditic: it begins life as a …

Shi drum

Umbrina cirrosa

Body elongated, high, slightly compressed at the sides. Muzzle short and blunt. Small mouth with fine …

Shortjaw bonefish

Albula glossodonta

This species is characterized by the following features: the tip of the lower jaw is broadly …

Sicklefin weasel shark

Hemigaleus microstoma

The sicklefin weasel shark has a slender body and a rounded, rather elongated snout. The large …

Silky shark

Carcharhinus falciformis

The name "Silky" was given to the shark because of its soft, placoid scales. The silky …

Silver pomfret

Pampus argenteus

Body very large, strongly compressed at the sides, with hard muscles. Caudal peduncle compressed at the …

Silvertip shark

Carcharhinus albimarginatus

It is a powerful fish with a streamlined body, a moderately long and wide snout, and …

Smooth hammerhead

Sphyrna zygaena

It differs from other large hammerheads in the shape of its head - its leading edge …

Snapper, Cubera

Lutjanus cyanopterus

The body is elongated, short. Mouth with large lips. Both jaws have fang-like teeth. The teeth …

Snapper, Red

Lutjanus campechanus

Body is moderately high. Eyes small. Nostrils without tubes, situated close to each other. The anal …

Spinner shark

Carcharhinus brevipinna

The spinner shark differs from the blacktip shark in that the first dorsal fin is more …

Spiny seahorse

Hippocampus histrix

It has a slender, elongated, and fully spined body. They are sharp, with dark tips, and …

Sturgeon, Atlantic

Acipenser oxyrinchus

The Atlantic sturgeon is dark brown or olive green with a white belly. The head is …

Sturgeon, White

Acipenser transmontanus

The adult white sturgeon has a moderately blunt snout, spines closer to the tip of the …

Sunfish, Ocean

Mola mola

The short, strongly laterally compressed body is disk-shaped. Thick skin is covered with small bony tubercles. …

Tautog

Tautoga onitis

Blunt-nosed and thick-lipped, has high forehead and heavy body. The back and sides are brownish, lighter …

Tawny nurse shark

Nebrius ferrugineus

The body shape of the tawny nurse shark is more streamlined than that of other nurse …