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Fish Dr. Seuss: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Also featured in a Beginner Book Video series. Swimmy Black fish Leo Lionni: Swimmy: Listed by the National Education Association as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on a 2007 online poll. [1] Rainbow Fish Rainbowfish: Marcus Pfister: Rainbow Fish
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups.Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings.
In British folklore, the monster known as the Lambton Worm may have been based on a lamprey, since it is described as an eel-like creature with nine eyes. [citation needed] In Japanese, lamprey are called yatsume-unagi (八つ目鰻, "eight-eyed eels"), thus excluding the nostril from the count. [citation needed]
The European conger is the heaviest of all eels. Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from 5 cm (2 in) in the one-jawed eel (Monognathus ahlstromi) to 4 m (13 ft) in the slender giant moray. [8] Adults range in weight from 30 g (1 oz) to well over 25 kg (55 lb). They possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins.
Blenniformids are generally small fish, only occasionally reaching lengths up to 55 cm, with elongated bodies (some almost eel-like), and relatively large eyes and mouths. Their dorsal fins are often continuous and long; the pelvic fins typically have a single embedded spine and are short and slender, situated before the pectoral fins.
This is a list of fish with common names that are based on the names of other animals. The names listed here may refer to single species, broader taxa ( genera , families ), or assortments of types. Where names are ambiguous, the various meanings should be listed here.
(One Piece: Mezase Kaizoku Ou!) for the Bandai WonderSwan Color handheld game console. [1] More than five years after the video game series debuted in Japan, One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush was the first One Piece video game to be localized and released in North America, on September 7, 2005, for Nintendo GameCube. [2]
Batomorphs are flat-bodied, and, like sharks, are cartilaginous fish, meaning they have a boneless skeleton made of a tough, elastic cartilage. Most batomorphs have five ventral slot-like body openings called gill slits that lead from the gills, but the Hexatrygonidae have six. [4]