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The gills of most teleost fish help to eliminate ammonia from the body, and fish live surrounded by water, but most still have a distinct bladder for storing waste fluid. The urinary bladder of teleosts is permeable to water, though this is less true for freshwater dwelling species than saltwater species.
The Rainbow Fish is a children's picture book drawn and written by Swiss author and illustrator, Marcus Pfister, and translated into English by J. Alison James.The book is best known for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.
Grunion are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, L. tenuis, and the Gulf grunion, L. sardinas.They are sardine-sized teleost fishes of the New World silverside family Atherinopsidae, found only off the coast of California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico, where the species are found on both the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California coasts.
Shell-fish caught in St. Kitts and Nevis. The eyes, snout, fins and tail protrude from this. The spotted trunkfish is basically white or yellowish with a regular pattern of numerous black spots on the body and tailfin. Just behind the eye, adult fish have a diagonal row of three white spots where black ones would have been expected.
The freshwater drum is also called Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass, [7] Gasper goo, Gaspergou, [8] gou, [8] grunt, grunter, [7] grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. It is commonly known as sheephead and sunfish in parts of Canada, [ 9 ] and the United States.
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The body lacks scales, but is covered in easily abraded, silvery guanine, which imparts a greenish to purplish iridescence in life. The gas bladder is absent and the stomach is highly distensible. The transparent fins are spineless ; the deeply forked and hypocercal caudal fin is most striking, with the lower lobe extended to a length exceeding ...
Enypniastes [a] is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumber.It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Enypniastes eximia.Due to its unique appearance, the species has been dubbed the headless chicken fish, headless chicken monster, and the Spanish dancer.