Allfishes
Antarctic starry skate
Amblyraja georgiana
The body is relatively thick and heavy. The snout is rather short. The rostral cartilage is …
Marine
Guide to marine fish with sorting and selection options by family, feeding method, size, and other important characteristics.
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Banded pipefish
Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus
The banded pipefish has a straight, elongated body. Fleshy veins extend from the head. These are …
Banggai cardinalfish
Pterapogon kauderni
The Banggai cardinalfish has an oval, large body with long, elongated fins. There is no sexual …
Beautiful Dartfish
Ptereleotris kallista
The name comes from a Greek word meaning 'most beautiful'. It has 26 vertebrae. This species …
Bluespotted angelfish
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus
The biggest differences between males and females are in their pelvic fins and body shape. Males …
Brackish water frogfish
Antennarius biocellatus
Antennarius biocellatus has a second dorsal process that is longer than the first, the illicium, and …
Denise's pygmy seahorse
Hippocampus denise
Denise's pygmy seahorse has a short snout, a slender body and a stout tail. Its body …
Giant oceanic manta ray
Mobula birostris
Huge pectoral fins form a diamond-shaped disc with the head, the width of which is about …
Gigantactis vanhoeffeni
Gigantactis vanhoeffeni
The body form is short. Gigantactis vanhoeffeni features metamorphosed females, which are distinguished from other species …
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 …
Orca
Orcinus orca
The Latin orca is thought to derive from the Greek ὄρυξ - a word used by …
Prickly shark
Echinorhinus cookei
They have a flabby, cylindrical body (adultsharks are much more massive than juveniles) and a short, …
Red Sea garden eel
Gorgasia sillneri
The Red Sea garden eel has an extremely elongated, cylindrical body shape. It is particularly long …
Rhynchactis macrothrix
Rhynchactis macrothrix
The long-filament whipnose anglerfish has an elongated, slightly compressed body with a small head that is …
White Cloud Mountain minnow
Tanichthys albonubes
Body elongated in length, slender, slightly flattened at the sides in front. Muzzle blunt, lips thin, …