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Name of fish Description
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| Date | 02.02.2018 | | Size | 40.55 Kb. | | #39068 |
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Name of fish
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Description
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black molly
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Entirely black, ovoviviparous, tropical brackish water fish often found in pet stores
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2
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right-eyed flounder
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Flatfish found in the salt marsh
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3
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white sturgeon
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Gigantic anadromous fish with barbels under its long snout and a heterocercal tail
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4
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archerfish
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Tropical brackish water fish with precision spitting ability
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5
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Sockeye salmon
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A green face, white mandible, and red body will distinguish this anadromous salmonid from the rest
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6
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mosquito fish
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Little white ovoviviparous fish that demonstrate sexual dimorphism and are known for eating Culex larvae
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7
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smallmouth bass
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In Chesapeake Bay, males of these poor fish were exhibiting intersex
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8
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tidepool sculpin
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Euryhaline critter with large pectoral fins nicely camouflaged in the tidepools
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9
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bumblebee goby
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A cute tiny brackish water fish named after an insect
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10
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chum salmon
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Salmonid with a characteristic “fire belly” color pattern
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11
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Atlantic menhaden
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Comes to the salt marsh to lay eggs in the brackish water, but spends most its life in the Atlantic Ocean
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12
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yellowfin tuna
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Large, fast swimming oceanic fish used to represent the stenohalic tendency
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13
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Devil’s Hole pupfish
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Rare little fish that could be called an extremophile because it can tolerate super saline water in excess of 100 degrees
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14
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American eel
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Elongated serpentine fish on the Atlantic coast that demonstrates the catadromous lifestyle
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15
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Chinook salmon
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Largest of the salmonids, recognized by its black gums
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16
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American shad
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Generic looking fish with no visible lateral line and only a single dorsal fin. It is anadromous and exhibits sexual dimorphism.
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17
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pink salmon
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Salmonid with the most extreme hump
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18
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three-spine stickleback
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Living in temperate brackish water, this little fish is recognized by an unusually dangerous looking anterior dorsal fin
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19
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striped bass
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This highly edible fish lives in the salt marsh and is recognized by horizontal stripes along its body
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20
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brook trout
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A typical fresh water fish, often snapping at mayfly lures, and demonstrating a stenohaline lifestyle
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21
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Coho salmon
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The most athletic of the Pacific salmonids, leaping up waterfalls and trying to avoid bears
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22
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Columbia River smelt
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Smallest of the anadromous fish on the Pacific coast, these fish swim up the Columbia River in droves
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23
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steelhead/rainbow trout
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A fish with two possible identities, depending on whether it migrates to the ocean or stays in fresh water
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24
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capelin
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Slender fish that throws itself onshore to spawn during high tide
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25
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manta ray
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Huge pectoral fins that look like wings help this cartilaginous fish glide through the air.
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26
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cleaner wrasse
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Using pectoral fins to propel itself, this colorful denizen of the coral reef plucks parasites from thankful larger fish
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27
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Amphioxus/ lancelet
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Not even quite a fish, this sword-shaped critter burrows in the sand and filter feeds. It’s a chordate, but not a vertebrate
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28
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black seadevil
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Looks like a head with fins, this slow moving monstrous fish lures its prey with a bioluminescent dorsal spine
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29
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barbel
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A member of the carp family that, in some locations, depends on hippos for their sustenance
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30
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hagfish/slime eel
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No eyes, no jaws, keratin plates for teeth, no paired fins, and lots of slime
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31
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ratfish/ chimera
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Related to sharks, but named after a Greek mythical creature because of their mixed characteristics
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32
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Plecostomus
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A genus of armored catfish, often found in pet stores sucking on glass
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33
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weedy sea dragon
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This unusual seahorse blends into the seaweed quite well
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34
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spiny dogfish
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A fairly generic shark, named after the spine on the anterior end of its dorsal fin
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35
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flying fish
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Amazing fish that can glide with oversized pectoral and pelvic fins
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36
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common skate
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Looks somewhat like a stingray, but has a thicker tail with numerous spines, and two dorsal fins on the tip of its tail
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37
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pipefish
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Looks like a straightened out seahorse, with armor plates and a fused jaw
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38
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mudskipper
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Weird fish that can breathe air, make burrows on the mudflats, and jump to attract mates
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39
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betta/Siamese fighting fish
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Freshwater fish of tropical Asia that has bright iridescent scales and wide showy fins that males use to intimidate each other
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40
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candirú
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Tiny catfish of the Amazon (a.k.a. pencilfish or vampire fish) with the reputation of entering the urethra of human bathers
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41
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basking shark
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Second largest shark in the world, also a filter feeder using its gill rakers
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42
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Antarctic ice fish
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This fish can tolerate freezing polar waters because of a special protein in its blood
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43
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clown knifefish
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Can move forward and backward using undulating waves of its long anal fin
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44
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lamprey
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Agnathan with seven gill openings, and a nasty habit of attaching itself onto other fish to parasitize them
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45
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clownfish
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These pretty little fish all start off life as males, but when the dominant female dies, the largest male has a sex change
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46
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lungfish
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Strange fish found in the deserts of Africa, has lobe fins, cosmoid scales, and can breathe air
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47
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gar
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One of the few living fish with ganoid scales. It can be big and scary, looking like an alligator
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48
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clingfish
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Like a goby, these little tidepool fish adhere to rocks with specialized fused pelvic fins
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49
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coelacanth
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Ancient fish with cosmoid scales and lobefins, in the same subclass as all tetrapods
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mola mola/ocean sunfish
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Heaviest of the bony fish, massive, weirdly shaped, slow moving, likes to bask on its side right at the surface
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