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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.
A species of fighting fish found in well-shaded peat forest blackwater swamps and creeks in Thailand and Malaysia. The specific epithet comes from the Greek letter pi, as an allusion to the shape of its throat marking. [40] Car pini Lea, 1911 - family Caridae. An Australian weevil found on pine trees, hence the specific epithet pìni. [41]
Antigonia rubescens is found in the Indo-West Pacific from Japan to Australia. It is a benthopelagic fish found at depths between 50 and 750 m (160 and 2,460 ft). [ 1 ]
The fish has 36 or 37 fins along its back, and 30 rays on the back fin, the researchers said, similar to other snailfish. However, it is only about 1 1/2 inches long, smaller than other known species.
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 ...
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 Siganidae was first formally described as a family in 1837 by the Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer Sir John Richardson. [2] The genus Siganus was described in 1775 by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius with Siganus rivulatus, a species also described by Fabricius in 1775, designated as the type species.
The fish spotted by oceangoers on August 10 was 12 feet long, according to the institution. The fish had already died at the time of the discovery, and was found near the shores of La Jolla Cove.