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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.
They grow up to almost 6 inches long and eat small crustaceans, worms, and mollusks as they stroll along the floor. Like other anglerfish, handfish have an illicium, which is a modified dorsal fin ...
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.
The only species in the genus is Parazacco spilurus, the predaceous chub, a fish found in China and Vietnam. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified this species as Data Deficient [ 1 ] but Parazacco fasciatus , now regarded as a synonym of P. spilurus , [ 3 ] is classified as being Least Concern .
The yellowbelly threadfin bream has the specific name bathybius, this is a combination of bathy, meaning "deep", and bios, which means "life".The stomach of the specimens examined by Snyder had been everted, an indication that they had been taken in deep water, and this fish is a benthic species found at depths of 40 to 90 m (130 to 300 ft).
A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The variety of species identified was quite eclectic and names for the new ...
Brachyplatystoma filamentosum is found in both freshwater and brackish water systems. The species is a demersal potamodromous fish that commonly inhabits deeper, flowing channels with soft bottoms. [2] Despite being sizeable predators themselves, surubí may fall prey to the piraíba
Alburnus tarichi, known as the tarek, pearl mullet, Van fish or Van shah kuli, is a species of cyprinid fish, found only in Turkey.It is endemic to the Lake Van basin. It is locally known in Turkish: İnci kefalı/balığı, Kurdish: darex darach, and Armenian: տառեխ taṙex