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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 ...
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
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.
Basking shark: Cetorhinus maximus: The second largest living fish after the whale shark. Batfish Platax orbicularis: Non-native, invasive species. Bay anchovy: Anchoa mitchilli: Bay whiff: Citharichthys spilopterus: Bearded brotula: Brotula barbata: Beaugregory: Stegastes leucostictus: Belted sandfish: Serranus subligarius: Beluga (sturgeon ...
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.
An example of a flabby fish is the cusk-eel Acanthonus armatus, [58] a predator with a huge head and a body that is 90% water. This fish has the largest ears and the smallest brain in relation to its body size of all known vertebrates. [59] Robust benthopelagic fish are muscular swimmers that actively cruise the bottom searching for prey.
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]
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.