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Red-tailed golden arowana: Although the scales are golden, the anal and caudal fins are reddish-brown. Mature red-tailed golden arowanas have brilliant metallic gold lateral scales, gill covers, bellies, and pectoral and pelvic fin membranes, although the back is dark. In juveniles, the areas destined to develop golden colour start out metallic ...
Scleropages jardinii, the Gulf saratoga, Australian bonytongue, pearl arowana or northern saratoga, is a freshwater bony fish native to Australia and New Guinea, one of two species of fishes sometimes known as Australian arowana, the other being Scleropages leichardti.
This fish has relatively large scales, a long body, and a tapered tail, with the dorsal and anal fins extending all the way to the small caudal fin, with which they are nearly fused. Its maximum total length is typically considered to be 0.9 m (3.0 ft), [ 3 ] but there are reports of individuals up to 1.2 m (3.9 ft). [ 2 ]
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Stomiiformes / ˈ s t ɒ m i. ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology.It includes, for example, dragonfishes, lightfishes (Gonostomatidae and Phosichthyidae), loosejaws, marine hatchetfishes and viperfishes.
It is sometimes called dragon-boa, dragonfish or boa dragonfish, [12] [13] but those names are equally applied to Stomias boa as a species, or the S. boa boa subspecies. In Icelandic it is marsnákur ("sea snake") and in Norwegian storkjeft ("big jaw").
The brick seamoth, Pegasus laternarius, [2] also known as the long-tailed dragonfish, long-tailed seamoth, pelagic dragon-fish, or the winged dragonfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the Pegasidae, or seamoth, family. [3] This species is used extensively in the Guangdong and Guangxi province of China to treat scrofula, cough, and diarrhea ...
Barbeled dragonfish, a small bioluminescent deep-sea fish of the family Stomiidae; Several species of fish of the family Pegasidae; Violet goby, an eel-like brackish-water fish; Polypterus senegalus, a fish of the family Polypteridae; Asian arowana, a bonytongue fish of the family Osteoglossidae