|
Angler fish Massive head, with grotesque features. Large crescent shaped mouth, with numerous sharp pointed teeth. Flattened white belly region, with the top half of the body taking a broad expansive posture. |
|
Bichir Bichir are bottom-dwelling freshwater fish native to western Africa. They are among the most primitive of the ray-finned fish, the dominant group of modern fish, which arose about 395 million years ago. |
|
Bioluminescence Bioluminescence is simply light produced by a chemical reaction which originates in an organism. |
|
Bony Fish The bony fish (Osteon = "bone"; "icthys" = "fish") are the most diverse and numerous of all vertebrates. Bony fish (Class Osteichthyes) are first seen in fossils from the Devonian (about 395 million years before present). |
|
Bowfin Bowfin are normally ravenous eaters but they can go without eating longer than any other fish - for nearly a year if necessary - because of their low metabolisms. |
|
Gar Gar (named for the Anglo-Saxon word for "spear") are freshwater fish found in the warmer rivers and lakes of the southern U.S., Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies. |
|
Hagfish The hagfish is the only vertebrate whose body fluids are the same concentration as the surrounding seawater. |
|
Lamprey Kng Henry I of England died in Normandy in 1135 after gorging himself on his favorite food: boiled lampreys. |
|
Lungfish The lungfish is the only living fossil fish to have a rock band named after it. The first living lungfish was discovered in the 1830s, almost a century before the coelacanth appeared |
|
Marine Angelfish Of all the colorful fish within the a coral reef some of the most striking are the angelfishes. These species of fishes can be broken down into three generalized groups, the larger angels and thier juveniles, and the dwarf, pygmy ( centropyge species ) angels. |
Page: | 1 | 2 |
|