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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.
The longfin snake-eel (Pisodonophis cancrivorus) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John Richardson in 1848. It has a Dorsal fin beginning above its pectoral fin with a snake-like upper body which is cylindrical, but compressed only along its extreme tail tip.
It is a benthic species, feeding on or near the seabed. Its diet includes crabs, shrimps, molluscs, sea urchins, starfish, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, tunicates and seagrasses. [2] The spotted trunkfish, like all trunkfish of the genus Lactophrys, secretes a colourless toxin from glands on its skin when touched. The toxin is only dangerous ...
Since 2002, promotion of an ocean sunfish festival in Hualien County, Taiwan, has increased demand for the meat of the sunfish (called "mambo fish" after a public vote), whereas before only the intestines and reproductive organs were sold while the rest of the fish was discarded. The month-long April festival draws some 120,000 visitors, and ...
Ocean sunfish: Mola mola: Ocean surgeon: Acanthurus bahianus: Ocean triggerfish: Canthidermis maculata: Ocean triggerfish: Canthidermis sufflamen: Oceanic two-wing flyingfish: Exocoetus obtusirostris: Oceanic whitetip shark: Carcharhinus longimanus: Ocellated flounder Ancylopsetta ommata: Ocellated frogfish: Fowlerichthys ocellatus: Ocellated moray
Plectorhinchus polytaenia, the ribboned sweetlips, also known as Tesone di mare or yellow-ribbon sweetlips, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, the grunts. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Polydactylus sexfilis is a medium-sized species, which attains a maximum total length of 61 centimetres (24 in) and a weight of 3.2 kilograms (7.1 lb). [1] It has a pointed snout and the head has an almost horizontal profile.
The ocean triggerfish is a common food species in several areas, including the Caribbean and the island of Madeira. It is not commonly targeted by fisheries in the Western Atlantic. [1] The abundance of this species varies from year to year in the Canary Islands, with some fisheries reporting more than 300 kg caught in a single day. [5]