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Alex Cord on location (1993) performing the voice-over and on-camera work for The Paddlefish: An American Treasure. Exotic and Unusual Fishes of North America is a series of PBS documentary television specials about three species of American fish: The Alligator Gar: Predator or Prey?, The Paddlefish: An American Treasure, and Sturgeon: Ancient Survivors of the Deep.
The chiselmouth (Acrocheilus alutaceus) is an unusual cyprinid fish of western North America. It is named for the sharp hard plate on its lower jaw, which is used to scrape rocks for algae . It is the sole member of the monotypic genus Acrocheilus and is a close relative of the Gila western chubs, [ 3 ] and is known to hybridise with ...
The fish was initially believed to be a more common ocean sunfish as people, "were flocking to the beach to see this unusual fish," according to the aquarium. Handout photo of a beached hoodwinker ...
Marine life washing up on shore isn't all that unusual. But something as massive as this 30-foot whale shark, which was beached on Australia's Bare Island in Botany Bay in 1965, is still fairly rare.
This results in the adult fish having two eyes on the up-side as it lies on the ocean floor. Most flatfish are generally either right-eyed or left-eyed dominant, but the California halibut is unusual in having a roughly even number of each type. [5] [6] Like other flatfish, the halibut hides under sand or loose gravel, camouflaging into the sea ...
A rare 7.3-foot hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on the Oregon coast earlier this week, the Seaside Aquarium said.
The red-lipped batfish or Galápagos batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini) is a fish of unusual morphology found around the Galápagos Islands and off Peru at depths of 3 to 76 m (10 to 249 ft) (Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel 2016). [2]
The Molidae comprise the family of the molas or ocean sunfishes, unusual fish whose bodies come to an end just behind the dorsal and anal fins, giving them a "half-fish" appearance. They are also the largest of the ray-finned bony fish, with the southern sunfish , Mola alexandrini , recorded at 4.6 m (15 ft) in length [ 3 ] and 2,744 kg (6,049 ...