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Various fish known as boarfish: Family Caproidae; Several fish in family Pentacerotidae, including: Striped boarfish; Giant boarfish or sowfish; Longfin boarfish; Buffalofish; Bull shark; Bull trout; Catfish; Catshark; Cowfish; Cow shark; Various fish known as dogfish: Family Squalidae, the dogfish sharks, including: Spiny dogfish
They are commonly found attached to sharks, manta rays, whales, turtles, and dugongs, hence the common names "sharksucker" and "whalesucker". Smaller remoras also fasten onto fish such as tuna and swordfish, and some of the smallest remoras travel in the mouths or gills of large manta rays, ocean sunfish, swordfish and sailfish.
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.
Spiny sharks (extinct) were the earliest known jawed fish. They resembled sharks and were ancestral to them. Spiny sharks, class Acanthodii, are extinct fish that share features with both bony and cartilaginous fish, though ultimately more closely related to and ancestral to the latter. Despite being called "spiny sharks", acanthodians predate ...
Hagfish, of the class Myxini / m ɪ k ˈ s aɪ n aɪ / (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes / m ɪ k ˈ s ɪ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, are eel-shaped jawless fish (occasionally called slime eels). Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, although they do have rudimentary vertebrae. [3]
There is only one order and family in this animal class. All of the 77 known species have elongated, eel-like bodies but can be distinguished by their downward-facing mouths. The largest form is the Goliath hagfish (Eptatretus goliath). This species can range up to 1.28 m (4.2 ft) in length and weigh to 6.2 kg (14 lb). [19]
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]
Fish that live in Bikini Bottom and other cities in the sea. Blinky: Mutant Fish The Simpsons: A three-eyed fish. Bruce Great white shark: Finding Nemo: Leader of a group of sharks that wants to give up eating fish. Bubbles Bass: PB&J Otter: Charlie Tuna StarKist brand tuna commercials Charlie the Tuna is the cartoon mascot and spokes-tuna for ...