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Cheilodactylidae, commonly called morwongs but also known as butterfish, fingerfins, jackassfish, sea carp, snappers, and moki, is a family of marine ray-finned fish. They are found in subtropical oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the sinarapan, also a goby, is the world's smallest commercially harvested fish. [62] Found in the Philippines, they have an average length of 12.5 mm (0.49 in), and are threatened by overfishing. [55] Whale shark: The largest fish is the whale shark.
Australian Geographic shared a video of the walking fish called a handfish on Wednesday, February 13th and it's really cool to see! The video is under 20 seconds long and shows a pretty orange ...
Chirocentrus nudus, the whitefin wolf-herring, is a fish species from the genus Chirocentrus of the family Chirocentridae. It is a coastal fish found in Marine neritic waters feeding mainly on other small fish.
A rarely seen deep sea fish resembling a serpent was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast and was brought ashore for study, marine experts said. The silvery, 12-foot ...
Macrochirichthys is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies.The only species in the genus isMacrochirichthys macrochirus, the long pectoral-fin minnow and giant sword minnow or freshwater wolf-herring, a fish found in rivers and lakes in Southeast Asia (Vietnam and Thailand to the Greater Sundas) where it ...
The Latidae, known as the lates perches, are a family of perch-like fish found in Africa, Asia, and the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.Including about 13 species, the family, previously classified subfamily Latinae in family Centropomidae, was raised to family status in 2004 after a cladistic analysis showed the original Centropomidae were paraphyletic.
The red velvetfish (Gnathanacanthus goetzeei) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, it is the only species in the monotypic genus Gnathanacanthus and monogeneric family Gnathanacanthidae. This species is endemic to the inshore waters of western and southern Australia .