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Lynn's award-winning portfolio included this image of a whale shark surrounded by a school of fish in the Maldives. The contest's overall third-place winner was Thien Nguyen Ngoc with a photo of a ...
Cod. Cod (pl.: cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae. [1] Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus Gadus is commonly not called cod (Alaska pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus). The two most common species of cod are the ...
Lindy Li (born December 14, 1990) is an American political commentator and campaign advisor serving as the Women's Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee.
Cobia. The cobia (Rachycentron canadum) (/ ˈkoʊbiə /, KOH-bee-ə) is a species of carangiform marine fish, the only extant representative of the genus Rachycentron and the family Rachycentridae. Its other common names include black kingfish, black salmon, ling, lemonfish, crabeater, prodigal son, codfish, and black bonito.
Bluestriped fangblenny mimic the juvenile bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, to enable them to loiter at cleaner stations and dupe clients waiting to be cleaned. [3] Their success in this aggressive mimicry is, like Batesian mimicry, frequency-dependent: it works best when the mimic is rare compared to the genuinely symbiotic cleaner fish. [4] The fangblenny has an unusual ...
Lysmata amboinensis is popular in home and public aquaria where it is commonly referred to as the skunk cleaner shrimp; this is due to its striking colours, peaceful nature, and useful symbiotic cleaning relationship which can also be witnessed in captivity.
The ide (Leuciscus idus), or orfe, is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae found in larger rivers, ponds, and lakes across Northern Europe and Asia. It has been introduced outside its native range into Europe, North America, and New Zealand. It is a popular ornamental fish, usually kept in outdoor ponds in temperate regions from which it often escapes.
The cutlassfishes are about 45 species of predatory fish in the family Trichiuridae of the order Scombriformes found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise to their name. They have reduced or absent pelvic and caudal fins, giving them an eel -like ...