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WikiProject Fishes aims to help organise our rapidly growing collection of articles about fish taxa. Issues outside the scope of this WikiProject include fishkeeping (fish aquarium topics), fishing, fisheries, fish cuisine topics, fish farm topics, fish market topics, fish processing topics, fish product sales topics, fish products topics, and fish trap topics.
At the end of October 2021, there were 33,888 articles within the project's scope. During October 2021, the most popular 500 articles received 7,931,480 views, averaging 255,854 views per day.
Related WikiProjects
[edit]This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life:
- WikiProject Science.
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Fishes
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
It is the parent project of:
It is worth keeping one eye on several Wikiprojects that overlap with this one, including:
- WikiProject Cephalopods
- WikiProject Cetaceans
- WikiProject Conservation worldwide
- WikiProject Ecoregions
- WikiProject Marine life
Associated Portal
[edit]The Fish Portal is the associated portal of WikiProject Fishes.
Participants
[edit]- For recruiting additional members, see users associating themselves with fish.
- Alextejthompson (talk · contribs)
- Antarctic-adventurer (talk · contribs) - any but has a fondness for tropical reef fish
- Atsme (talk · contribs) - all species but with some level of expertise in tropical reef fishes, and the largest freshwater ancestral species.
- Bruinfan12 (talk · contribs) - Seahorses and pipefish, et al.
- Clumpus (talk · contribs) - Fish biologist expanding and updating articles on north Atlantic fishes.
- Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs)
- Dan Koehl (talk · contribs)
- Daniel Mietchen (talk · contribs) - mainly images and references
- Enlil Ninlil (talk · contribs)
- Epipelagic (talk · contribs) – I've developed many articles for this project, mostly about fish types, habitats and ecology or related to fisheries.
- Esoxid (talk · contribs) (Created 2 fish articles before signing up here. Black scabbardfish and Amphiprion akallopisos)
- Fastily (talk · contribs)
- Ginkgo100 (talk · contribs)
- GunnarBonk (talk · contribs) Lover of fishes, specifically wrasses and salmonids. Not active much, but would love to help in any way I can.
- History person 2 (talk · contribs) I am interested in fish
- HolyCrocsEmperor (talk · contribs) Hiii I just created articles for most grayling species and now start working on other freshwater species in Russia and East Asia! Have a good day!
- Hyperik (talk · contribs)
- Innotata (talk · contribs)
- jj1691 (talk · contribs)
- Jokrez (talk · contribs) I hate fish stubs, so I make them bigger
- Kelubact (talk · contribs) Freshwater fish
- Kodiak Blackjack (talk · contribs)
- Knight of Gloucestershire (talk · contribs) I like fish. They're fascinating and it's lovely to know more about them init?
- Kraftlos (talk · contribs)
- Lerdsuwa (talk · contribs)
- lfstevens (talk · contribs)
- MChGilbert (talk · contribs) Fish biologist/anatomist studying a variety of fish taxa, from pupfishes to cichlids to bramids. Editing when I have the time.
- Micromesistius (talk · contribs)
- Mike Cline (talk · contribs) Interested in expanding and improving all articles on North American Salmonidae
- Mitternacht90 (talk · contribs)
- Naiadpress (talk · contribs) I LOVE sharks
- Nick Thorne (talk · contribs)
- OceanGunfish (talk · contribs) Lifelong fish enthusiast with particular interest in Centrarchidae family
- Pbsouthwood (talk · contribs) Sporadic editor on marine organisms of Southern Africa, including fishes.
- Plantdrew (talk · contribs)
- popcorned (talk · contribs) Pupfish. Lots of Pupfish. Main Goal: Make ichthyology better.
- Primium (talk · contribs)
- Pteronura brasiliensis (talk · contribs) I got interested in this sort of thing for the Fish Quiz itself I am willing and ready to help!
- Quetzal1964 (talk · contribs)
- Rickie Elizabeth (talk · contribs) I try to add more to fish articles that are stubs
- Rlendog (talk · contribs)
- Ryan shell (talk · contribs) (ive created 12 articles for this project, but i just realised i didnot sign the project page)
- Snugglyaggron (talk · contribs) Autopatrolled user with more than 50 pages under my belt. Largely focused on neotropocal characiformes.
- Stan Shebs (talk · contribs)
- Stefan (talk · contribs)
- TeaDrinker (talk · contribs)
- Vihaking277 (talk · contribs) Editing or creating drafts for articles, especially of Sri Lankan fish.
- Wilhelmina Will (talk · contribs) I've recently created many fish species articles, and a genus article, and am interested in creating many more.
- Wolverine XI (talk · contribs) I love sharks
- Ykvach (talk · contribs) - Yuriy Kvach
Other participants
[edit]See Category:WikiProject Fishes participants for participants who have associated themselves with the project using the {{User WPFishes}} or {{User WPFishes2}} userboxes.
Inactive
[edit]⠀Former participants who haven't edited for over two years
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Structure and criteria for inclusion
[edit]Articles should normally be about particular taxa. For example:
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Order: Catfish, Cypriniformes
- Family: Gourami, Centrarchidae
- Genus: Black bass, Lepomis
- Species: Largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides
If a family has only a single genus, the family name should redirect to the article on the genus (e.g., Elassomatidae). If a genus has only a single species, articles using the common name should redirect to the species (e.g., Centrarchus), whereas articles using the binomial should redirect to the genus (e.g., Boesemania microlepis). Exceptions are also made for articles where the genus name has a disambiguator in parentheses (e.g., Bullockia (fish)).
When a genus contains only a small number of similar species, the articles may be combined with the article on the genus (e.g., Crappie, which includes the white crappie, Pomoxis annularis, and the black crappie, P. nigromaculatus.)
Also see the lists at Tkinias/Fish, SpeciesFishes1, SpeciesFishes2, SpeciesFishes3, and MarineFishList
WikiProject Fishes categories
[edit]Fish names and article titles
[edit]Common names
[edit]Common names should be written in sentence case rather than title case, following normal English usage and that of FishBase. Use, for example, "largemouth bass", not "Largemouth Bass". Place names or personal names that form part of a common name remain capitalized, hence "Guadalupe bass" (in reference to the Guadalupe River) or "White Cloud Mountain minnow" (in reference to White Cloud Mountain in China).
Systematic names
[edit]- Use systematic or "scientific" names according to established biological usage.
- Capitalize but do not italicize names of taxa higher than genus, e.g., the family Exocoetidae.
- Capitalize and italicize generic names, e.g., Xiphophorus.
- Italicize but do not capitalize specific epithets.
- Refer to species using full names, e.g., Xiphophorus hellerii or X. hellerii but not hellerii.
- Neither italicize nor capitalize anglicizations of systematic names, e.g., "the pumpkinseed is a perciform fish".
Article titles
[edit]Article naming for fishes differs, as detailed below, from Naming conventions (fauna).
Use the common name for any species that satisfies at least one of the following criteria:
- 1(i) The species has a single common name that is widely used and never used for any other species. While the species in question may have additional common names, those names are rarely used. Example: Greenland halibut.
- 1(ii) The species has a widely recognised common name that is so rarely applied to other species that confusion as to the subject of the article is unlikely to arise. Example: Guppy.
- 1(iii) Within the area where the species is endemic and/or of commercial importance, only a single common name is used by the relevant legal, conservation, fisheries or local institutions, even though other common names may exist. Example: Atlantic salmon.
- 1(iv) The species has a common name that is normally separated from similar common names by use of geographical, descriptive, or other modifications to those names. Once differentiated, these names satisfy criteria i, ii, or iii above. Examples: Shovelnose sturgeon, Little shovelnose sturgeon, False shovelnose sturgeon.
Use the Latin name for any species that fails to satisfy criteria 1(i) to 1(iv), including such situations as the following:
- 2(i) The same common name is regularly applied to multiple species. Example: Green spotted puffer.
- 2(ii) There is no single common name used for the species. Example: Black widow tetra (a.k.a. Black tetra, Petticoat tetra).
- 2(iii) The species has different common names in different English-speaking countries. Example: Plec (UK), pleco (US).
- 2(iv) The species simply has no widely used common name. Example: Dermogenys sumatrana.
Guidelines
- Regardless of the title used, articles should include the scientific name in bold and italics and all significant English common names in bold in the first paragraph (and preferably the first sentence).
- The first paragraph should differentiate the fish from other species with which it might be confused. This may be done by explaining the ambiguity, with links to other fish (e.g., at tilapia), or by mentioning geographical distribution, for example:
- The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as the millionsfish, is a small fresh and brackish water fish from Central America.
- Disambiguate species that might be confused by using a disambiguation hatnote (e.g., at freshwater hatchetfish). A simple form of disambiguation hatnote is:
- This article is about the <put text>; for the <put text> see <put link>.
- Create a disambiguation page when the ambiguity involves many fish and a hatnote would be too long. Example: Tigerfish.
- Before renaming articles, discuss the reasons for doing so on the Talk page. In cases of disputed naming, where a consensus cannot be reached on the article's Talk page, the matter should be discussed at WikiProject Fishes to allow a consensus decision to be reached.
Regional lists of species
Lists of fish species should follow the form: List of fishes of <Region>. The definite article may be needed for the name of some regions. Note that "List of fish of ..." is incorrect when dealing with a list of the species.
Higher taxa
[edit]Articles on taxa above species should be titled using the common name, if one exists and is unambiguous. Otherwise, the scientific epithet should be used. When FishBase or other references give a common name of "xes and ys" or "xes or ys" for a higher taxon, the scientific epithet (possibly anglicized) should be used for the article title.
Articles on taxa above the generic level should be titled with the Latin form of the name and not the anglicization, e.g. Cyprinidae not cyprinid, and Perciformes not perciform. The anglicizations may be freely used in article text however.
Taxonomy
[edit]Taxonomy at the level of genera and species should follow FishBase. Higher-level classification should follow the 2016 fifth edition of Fishes of the World by J.S. Nelson, T.C. Grande and M.V.H. Wilson for consistency. If applicable, disputes in classification should be noted in article text.
- Note: When listing the species authority (the author(s) who originally named the species or subspecies of interest), in the taxobox or elsewhere, parentheses matter. For example, "Foogenus fishii Smith, 1900" has a subtly different meaning than "Foogenus fishii (Smith, 1900)". Parentheses indicate that Smith originally placed fishii in a different genus, and the species was subsequently placed in Foogenus. See more at Binomial nomenclature and Template:Taxobox#Authorities (Animalia usage).
Categorization
[edit]Wikipedia categories should be created for well-known families, using the plural of the common name of the family (Category:Centrarchidae or Category:Cyprinidae), and for orders, using the common name (e.g., Category:Catfishes) or the scientific epithet (e.g., Category:Cyprinodontiformes). For very small families (e.g., the pygmy sunfishes), only the order category may be used, but usage must be consistent among members of a family.
Article format
[edit]Taxoboxes
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Warmouth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
Order: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | |
Species: | L. gulosus
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Binomial name | |
Lepomis gulosus |
All articles on taxa should have taxoboxes (constructed using the taxobox template, not built from scratch) including kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. The new taxa above class should not be indicated, since they can be found elsewhere in Wikipedia. Taxa between class and order should not be used, since they are unstable and can be found in the class and order articles. For large taxa, intermediate classifications may be indicated in the taxobox. For example, Perciformes should indicate their suborder and (if one exists) superfamily, and members of large families should indicate subfamilies. All members of a taxon should, however, be consistent in the usage of intermediate classifications.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage for the full details of taxobox construction.
An example taxobox, for the warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), is given at right. Note that the specific name is L. gulosus, not simply gulosus, and that the generic name is not bolded, since the article is not about the entire genus Lepomis.
Images
[edit]An image should be included in the taxobox if an appropriate one is available.
Higher taxa should use images reflecting their types, if possible. For example, Lepomis uses an image of L. auritus, the redbreast sunfish, which is the type species of the genus, while Centrarchidae uses an image of Centrarchus macropterus, the flier, which is the type (and only) species of Centrarchus, the type genus of Centrarchidae.
The taxobox image should ideally picture a single fish, facing left, in a horizontal orientation, cropped to 20 percent of the fish's length around the fish's body, and should be 250 pixels wide. (The image should not be resized manually; the full-size image should be uploaded and markup used to create the 250px image. Note that very large images may be resized before upload so that they will fit in a normal browser window when enlarged.) For articles long enough to warrant inclusion of additional images, these may be placed as thumbnails in the article body, ideally showing the fish in its native environment.
Note that images of fishes which do not possess right-left symmetry should not be flipped to obtain a left-facing fish; doing so would, for example, convert a righteye flounder into a lefteye flounder.
Text captions should not be used on taxobox images in species articles, but in articles on higher taxa, the article caption should indicate the species pictured (if known), in the format "[[Common name]] (''Genus species'')". If the species depicted is not known, the caption should identify the fish as closely as possible, as in "Pygmy sunfish (Elassoma sp.)"
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It is always beneficial to have a picture that communicates a sense of scale. This can be achieved by
- placing standard sized physical objects next to the fish (human hand or body, tape measure, etc.), before taking the photo. Sometimes the background scenery will already do the job.
- painting a measuring scale into an existing image, if you know its exact scale (that's not the same as knowing the average size of the species, btw).
- painting a reference shape (human silhouette, etc.) into the picture, if your idea about the scale is less accurate.
- painting a measuring scale is highly unscientific if it is based on nothing but a guess. In this case you should use the image as it is!
Anyway, any image is better than no image - esp. if you have only third party material available, or if you don't want to get the animal out of its living environment.
Introduction
[edit]The first paragraph should give the common and systematic names of the taxon featured in the article, as well as some information about its classification. Species articles should follow the form:
- The foofish (Barus foous) is a species of freshwater fish in the baz family (family Bazidae) of order Quuxiformes. It is native to the Big River basin in Ruritania.
Higher order articles should follow the form:
- Barus is a genus of freshwater fish in the baz family (family Bazidae) of order Quuxiformes. The type species is the common barfish (B. vulgaris), and fishes of this genus are known as the barfishes.
Succeeding paragraphs should give, in order (omitting paragraphs for which no information is available):
- Taxonomy (includes classification, evolution, subspecies, etymology of name (especially for genus names, which FishBase normally provides), alternate common names, important binomial synonyms, etc.
- Description, including size, weight, and age data from FishBase
- Distribution and habitat
- Feeding, diet, and related information
- Reproduction (life-cycle, breeding, etc.)
- Importance to humans (aquarium fish, game fish, commercial fishing, research uses, etc.)
- Conservation status (if not Secure) for species, including explanation for the classification, and mention of members classified as Vulnerable or worse for higher taxa
- Trivia (state fish, national emblem, ships bearing the name, other uses of the name, etc.)
Other sections
[edit]Information on keeping fish in an aquarium should be put in a section entitled "In the aquarium". Breeding and dietary information pertaining to captive fish should go here, rather than in the main section, which should refer primarily to the fish in its natural habitat.
Other sections may address topics of interest warranting discussion longer than a brief paragraph.
References
[edit]Every article should include a section entitled "References", with a bullet-list of sources. Every article should include a citation there of the relevant entries in FishBase and, if possible, ITIS. It is not necessary to include Fishes of the World unless it has been used as a source for the article. Other sources for information in the article should be included, following normal citation format.
Templates exist for citing FishBase and ITIS, and these should be used.
FishBase
[edit]For a FishBase entry on an order, use:
- {{FishBase order | order = Bariformes | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For a FishBase entry on a family, use:
- {{FishBase family | family = Baridae | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For a FishBase entry on a genus, use:
- {{FishBase genus | genus = Barus | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For most FishBase entries on species, use:
- {{FishBase species | genus = Barus | species = foous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For most FishBase entries on subspecies, use:
- {{FishBase subspecies | genus = Barus | species = foous | subspecies = subfoous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For FishBase entries that are problematic for the above templates, get the numeric ID from their URL and use:
- {{FishBase species alt | ID = ???? | taxon = Barus foous foous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For all FishBase templates, year and month refer to the FishBase revision consulted, not the date on which you consulted FishBase; the revision can be found from the FishBase home page.
ITIS
[edit]For an ITIS entry, use:
- {{ITIS | ID = ????? | taxon = ''Barus foous'' | year = YYYY | date = DD Month}}
For the ITIS template, year and date refer to the date on which ITIS was consulted. Date can be in either U.S. or international format, as it will be wikified.
External links
[edit]Web sites or pages not used as sources for the article (except for FishBase and ITIS) should appear in a section entitled "External links" (using the plural even if only one link is present).
Fish-related templates and categories
[edit]Talk pages
[edit]WikiProject Fishes' project banner is {{Fishproject}}. Please place at the top of an appropriate talk page. Placing the template on the talk page will help to direct editors to this WikiProject Fishes main page. This is how the template will look when it has been added:
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Stub templates
[edit]Remember to mark up stub articles with the appropriate stub template at the bottom of the article. This automatically adds it to the appropriate page and inserts the banners to the bottom of the page. These are the current stub templates:
The pages were counted on January 18, 2023.
* Stub templates with very few articles are often upmerged into a parent category. To propose a separate category, please visit Wikipedia:WSS/P.
Categories
[edit]Please make sure to add articles to the appropriate categories among the ones listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes/Categories. If there are any categories that you think should be created, please request them in the tasklist on this page or on the talk page.
In some cases, there might be more appropriate ways to group articles than categories, such as lists or article series boxes. For more information, see Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes.
Userboxes
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{{User WPFishes2}}
Userbox enthusiasts may want to add one of these userboxes to their userpage to show that they are members of this WikiProject, by adding {{User WPFishes}} or {{User WPFishes2}}. For more userboxes, see additional fish related userboxes.
Barnstars
[edit]- Awarded to users who've shown great editing skills in improving articles related to Fish.
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Article assessment
[edit]See WikiProject Fishes/Assessment.
Article alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 08 Jul 2024 – Libotonius (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 03 Mar 2024 – Fish in culture (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion
Good article reassessments
- 21 Jul 2024 – Sacred Cod (talk · edit · hist) nominated for GA reassessment by Cpotisch (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 26 Jul 2024 – Angayukaksurak char (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Dolly Varden trout by Loopy30 (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jul 2024 – Fugu (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Fugu#Toxin by Quarangle (t · c); see discussion
- 20 May 2024 – Carcharomodus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Carcharomodus escheri by Kodiak Blackjack (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Mar 2024 – Tristramella intermedia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Tristramella simonis by FunkMonk (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jan 2024 – Mirror carp (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Eurasian carp by Wbm1058 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jan 2024 – Polypterus endlicheri (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri by 92.70.152.178 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jan 2024 – Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Polypterus endlicheri by 92.70.152.178 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 17 Jan 2022 – River Monsters (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 65.92.246.142 (t · c); see discussion
Article traffic
[edit]See WikiProject Fishes/Popular pages.
Collaboration
[edit]Pacific jack mackerel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Since Image:Trachurus symmetricus baitball.jpg is the image used on the project banner, it is important that the article Pacific jack mackerel be improved. Please work together to improve the article on Pacific jack mackerel.
Neon highfin barb (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- I originally nominated the article for deletion as original research. There seems to be some confusion with this article about whether it represents a distinct species and whether it's actually been scientifically described. It's been improved, but it'd be great if an expert would comment on the AfD, improve the article, or otherwise help us figure this one out. Graymornings(talk) 11:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Peer Review
[edit]See Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes/Peer review
Any fish article requiring a review may be placed here for review specifically by members of the wikiproject.
Tasklist
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Automated list of featured and good articles
[edit]Featured articles
[edit]Good articles
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Ampullae of Lorenzini
Atlantic blue marlin
Atlantic torpedo
Atlanticopristis
Australian blacktip shark
Australian swellshark
Australian weasel shark
Banded archerfish
Banded houndshark
Bigeye sand tiger
Bigeye thresher
Bignose shark
Black dogfish
Blackmouth catshark
Blacknose shark
Blacktip reef shark
Blacktip shark
Blotchy swellshark
Bluespotted ribbontail ray
Bluntnose stingray
Borneo shark
Bowfin
Bramble shark
Cape Fear shiner
Cardabiodon
Caribbean reef shark
Christmas darter
Coffin ray
Common stingray
Common thresher
Convict cichlid
Cookiecutter shark
Copper shark
Coral catshark
Creek whaler
Crocodile shark
Crossback stingaree
Dark shyshark
Deepwater stingray
Devils Hole pupfish
Diamond stingray
Dracopristis
Dusky shark
Dwarf pufferfish
Electric fish
Electric organ (fish)
Epaulette shark
Estuary stingray
False catshark
Finetooth shark
Finless sleeper ray
Fish
Frilled shark
Giant freshwater stingray
Great hammerhead
Great northern tilefish
Great white shark
Grey reef shark
Halfbeak
Hardnose shark
Horn shark
Izak catshark
Jamming avoidance response
Japanese angelshark
Japanese sleeper ray
Kitefin shark
Kuhl's maskray
Lateral line
Leopard shark
Longfin mako shark
Longtail butterfly ray
Mangrove whipray
Marbled electric ray
Milk shark
Murray cod
Nervous shark
Night shark
Nursehound
Ocellated electric ray
Onefin electric ray
Pacific angelshark
Pacific electric ray
Paddlefish
Pelagic stingray
Pelagic thresher
Pelvicachromis pulcher
Peppered maskray
Halloween darter
Pink whipray
Plain maskray
Pondicherry shark
Porcupine ray
Prickly shark
Puffadder shyshark
Pyjama shark
Quagga catshark
Reticulate whipray
Rhina ancylostoma
Roughtail stingray
Round ribbontail ray
Sacred Cod
Sand devil
Sand whiting
Shark
Sharptooth houndshark
Short-tail stingray
Sixgill stingray
Slender smooth-hound
Smalltail shark
Smalltooth sand tiger
Smooth hammerhead
Sparsely spotted stingaree
Spinner shark
Spotted eagle ray
Squatina squatina
Stephanolepis cirrhifer
Sturgeon
Tasmanian numbfish
Tasselled wobbegong
Tawny nurse shark
Thinopus
Thornback guitarfish
Tiger catshark
Tiger shark
Tiktaalik
Toxotes chatareus
Transitional fossil
Velvet belly lanternshark
Viper dogfish
Whale shark
Whiskery shark
Winghead shark
Yellow stingray
Zebra shark
Cloudy catshark
Leopard catshark
Portuguese dogfish
Yellowtail flounder
Smalleye hammerhead
Galapagos shark
Smoothtooth blacktip shark
Sicklefin lemon shark
Whitetip reef shark
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Barndoor skate
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Leopard shark in kelp
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Lábrido tablero a cuadros (Halichoeres hortulanus), mar Rojo, Egipto, 2023-04-19, DD 43
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MC Rotfeuerfisch
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Macropodus opercularis - side (aka) edit
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Maroc Marrakech Agdal Luc Viatour 1
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Mero (Epinephelus marginatus), Cabo de Palos, España, 2022-07-15, DD 34
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Moma amarilla (Tripterygion delaisi), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2022-07-20, DD 29
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Moma amarilla (Tripterygion delaisi), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2022-07-29, DD 32
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Morena del Mediterráneo (Muraena helena), Regga, Gozo, Malta, 2021-08-23, DD 14
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Paracirrhites forsteri Forsters Hawkfish juvenile Papua New Guinea by Nick Hobgood
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Peacock Flounder Bothus mancus in Kona
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Pennant coralfish melb aquarium edit2
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Pez ballesta (Balistes capriscus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-23, DD 24
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Pez ballesta ondulado (Balistapus undulatus), mar Rojo, Egipto, 2023-04-15, DD 45
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Pez cocodrilo (Papilloculiceps longiceps), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-27, DD 71
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Pez globo (Arothron stellatus), Ras Katy, Sharm el-Sheij, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 119
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Pez ángel de barra amarilla (Pomacanthus maculosus), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 138
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Pez ángel emperador (Pomacanthus imperator), mar Rojo, Egipto, 2023-04-17, DD 104
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Pez ángel real (Pygoplites diacanthus), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 155
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Platax Orbicularis in the Egyptian Red Sea
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Psetta maxima Luc Viatour
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Pterois volitans Manado-e edit
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Ptychochromis insolitus - Wilhelma 01
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Pygocentrus nattereri - Karlsruhe Zoo 01
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Red Fish at Papahānaumokuākea (cropped)
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Rhinogobius flumineus(Hamamatsu,Shizuoka,Japan)
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Round ribbontail ray from Lakshadweep JJH edit
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Salmonete de fango (Mullus barbatus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-21, DD 59
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Salmonlarvakils
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Seahorse Skeleton Macro 8 - edit
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Sketchbook of fishes - 25. (Longnose) Saw shark - William Buelow Gould, c1832
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Snowflake moray in Kona
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Spotted Trunkfish
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Stargazer snake eel (Brachysomophis cirrocheilos) (14419490013)
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Symphorichthys spilurus - Wilhelma 01
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Synchiropus splendidus 2 Luc Viatour
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[edit]Abyssobrotula galatheae
Acanthemblemaria maria
Acanthogobius flavimanus
Acanthopagrus butcheri
Acanthurus nigricauda
Acanthurus achilles
Acanthurus dussumieri
Acanthurus guttatus
Acanthurus olivaceus
Acanthurus polyzona
Acanthurus tractus
Acrochordonichthys
Adriatic sturgeon
Aeoliscus strigatus
African pompano
African sawtail catshark
Alectis
Alepes
Alligator gar
Alligator pipefish
Alopias palatasi
Amatitlania septemfasciata
Ambassis jacksoniensis
Ambassis macleayi
Ambloplites
Ameiurus platycephalus
American conger
American paddlefish
Amia? hesperia
Ammodytes americanus
Amphiprion akindynos
Ampullae of Lorenzini
Anableps anableps
Anoplogaster cornuta
Antilles catshark
Aquaculture of cobia
Arabian carpetshark
Argentine seabass
Argyropelecus affinis
Argyropelecus sladeni
Arothron reticularis
Ascocotyle pindoramensis
Asterotrygon
Astrapogon stellatus
Astronesthes niger
Astronesthes richardsoni
Atlantic flyingfish
Atlantic bumper
Atlantic stingray
Atlantic torpedo
Atlanticopristis
Auchenipterichthys
Australasian snapper
Australian blenny
Australian reticulate swellshark
Australian sawtail catshark
Australian swellshark
Bagarius
Bagrichthys
Bait ball
Balao halfbeak
Balkhash perch
Balloon shark
Banded archerfish
Banded butterflyfish
Bar jack
Barbantus curvifrons
Barbeled houndshark
Bat ray
Batasio
Robert J. Behnke
Belted cardinalfish
Bennett's stingray
Benson (fish)
Bentfin devil ray
Bering cisco
Bianchengichthys
Big skate
Bigeye sand tiger
Bigeye trevally
Bigmouth chub
Bigtooth cardinalfish
Billfish
Black-spotted whipray
Black dogfish
Black ghostshark
Black rockfish
Black seadevil
Black swallower
Blackbelly triggerfish
Blackchin guitarfish
Blackchin shiner
Blackedge whipray
Blackfin scad
Blackish stingray
Blackmouth catshark
Blackside hawkfish
Blackspot shark
Blacktip reef shark
Blacktip sawtail catshark
Blacktip shark
Blacktip trevally
Yvonne Blenkinsop
Blind swamp eel
Blind cave eel
Blind electric ray
Blind shark
Blob sculpin
Blood parrot cichlid
Blotched catshark
Blue runner
Blue trevally
Bluegrey carpetshark
Bluespotted ribbontail ray
Bluespotted trevally
Bluestripe butterflyfish
Bluntnose stingray
Blurred lanternshark
Boa catshark
Boops boops
Borneo shark
Borophryne
Bothrocara brunneum
Bowfin
Brachygobius nunus
Brachyplatystoma
Brachysomophis cirrocheilos
Brassy trevally
Brazilian large-eyed stingray
Breitensteinia
Broad stingray
Broad whitefish
Broadfin sawtail catshark
Broadhead catfish
Brown lanternshark
Brown shyshark
Brown stingaree
Brown whipray
Brownsnout spookfish
Bubba (fish)
Paul Bujor
Bumpnose trevally
Bunocephalus
Butler's frogfish
Butterfly stingaree
California lizardfish
Cape Fear shiner
Carangoides
Caranx lugubris
Caranx sansun
Carapus acus
Carpet shark
Caspian lamprey
Cauca molly
Centrolophus
Cephaloscyllium
Cephalurus
Cepola macrophthalma
Cetopsis
Chaetodon nippon
Chaetodon zanzibarensis
Chaetostoma microps
Chain moray
Chameleon goby
Chasmodes saburrae
Chesterfield Island stingaree
Chilean jack mackerel
Chinese stingray
Chionodraco rastrospinosus
Christmas darter
Chupare stingray
Circular stingaree
Cleftbelly trevally
Coastal fish
Coastal trevally
Coastrange sculpin
Colares stingray
Comanche Springs pupfish
Common bluestripe snapper
Common eagle ray
Common guitarfish
Common stingaree
Common stingray
Cook's swellshark
Cookiecutter shark
Copadichromis borleyi
Copella arnoldi
Copper shark
Coral Sea stingaree
Coral reef fish
Coregonus hoyi
Coreoleuciscus splendidus
Cornish jack
Coryphaenoides rupestris
Cottonmouth jack
Jonathan Couch
Cowtail stingray
Crazy fish
Crested bullhead shark
Crossback stingaree
Cryodraco
Cui-ui
Cyclopteridae
Dagetichthys lusitanicus
Daggernose shark
Daisy stingray
Danube bleak
Dark shyshark
Dash-and-dot goatfish
Dekeyseria
Demersal fish
Mary Denness
Devils Hole pupfish
Diamond darter
Dibranchus atlanticus
Diplecogaster bimaculata
Dipturus teevani
Diversity of fish
Doctorfish tang
Dollfus' stargazer
Doubleband surgeonfish
Dracula fish
Draughtsboard shark
Dwarf black stingray
Dwarf catshark
Dwarf lanternshark
Dwarf pufferfish
Dwarf pygmy goby
Dwarf sawfish
Dwarf sawtail catshark
Dysommina rugosa
Easter Island butterflyfish
Eastern school whiting
Eastern shovelnose ray
Eastern shovelnose stingaree
Echeneis neucratoides
Edaphodon
Eigenmannia vicentespelaea
Elacatinus
Elacatinus chancei
Elacatinus horsti
Electric organ (fish)
Emmelichthyops atlanticus
Empetrichthys latos
Enneapterygius bahasa
Entomocorus
Epactionotus
Epaulette shark
Erismatopterus
Estuary stingray
Etheostoma variatum
Eudontomyzon danfordi
Eumecichthys
European flounder
European pilchard
European sprat
Evermannichthys bicolor
Exocoetus obtusirostris
Exocoetus volitans
Exoglossum laurae
Eyed flounder
False scad
False scorpionfish
Fenestraja plutonia
Figaro (genus)
Finetooth shark
Finless sleeper ray
Fish development
Fish diseases and parasites
Fish egg fossil
FishCenter Live
Flagtail swellshark
Flat needlefish
Forage fish
Forcipiger longirostris
Freshwater whipray
Frilled shark
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Galápagos ghostshark
Gangetic whiting
Garra barreimiae
Gecko catshark
Gerres nigri
Giant mottled eel
Giant oceanic manta ray
Giant stumptail stingray
Gillellus inescatus
Ginbuna
Glanapteryginae
Glandulocaudinae
Glyptothorax kurdistanicus
Graceful shark
Graus nigra
Graveldiver
Great northern tilefish
Green lanternshark
Greenback stingaree
Greeneye
Greeneye spurdog
Grey reef shark
Grey skate
Grey triggerfish
Grunion
Guachanche barracuda
Gulf sturgeon
Gymnothorax pictus
Haemulon
Haemulon vittatum
Halichoeres maculipinna
Hallucinogenic fish
Haploblepharus
Haplochromis vonlinnei
Haplophryne
Hawaiian cleaner wrasse
Headlight fish
Heliobatis
Helogenes
Hemiancistrus
Herring scad
Heterandria formosa
Heterobranchus bidorsalis
Hiodon woodruffi
Hippocampinae
Hippocampus kuda
Holacanthus passer
Honey blue-eye
Hoosier cavefish
Horabagrus
Horn shark
Horse-eye jack
Hortle's whipray
Houndfish
Clark Hubbs
Humpbacked limia
Hypancistrus
Hypophthalmus
Hypoplectrus nigricans
Hypseleotris compressa
Ichthyoplankton
Imposter trevally
Indian threadfish
Inimicus
Inimicus filamentosus
Irrawaddy river shark
Ives Lake cisco
Izu stingray
Japanese bullhead shark
Japanese lates
Jenkins' whipray
Jolthead porgy
Juil ciego
Kai stingaree
Kapala stingaree
Kessler's gudgeon
King-of-the-salmon
Kitefin shark
Knifetooth sawfish
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Konye
Krabi mouth-brooding betta
Labrus viridis
Laccognathus embryi
Laemonema barbatulum
Largetooth cookiecutter shark
Lasiognathus
Leopard shark
Leopard-spotted swellshark
Leopard whipray
Lepidotus
Leporacanthicus
Leporinus fasciatus
Leuresthes tenuis
Leuroglossus stilbius
Limia melanogaster
Lined topminnow
Linophryne indica
Liparis fabricii
List of fish of Hawaii
List of threatened rays
Littlehead porgy
Lizard catshark
Lobed stingaree
Lollipop catshark
Longcomb sawfish
Longfin crevalle jack
Longfin trevally
Longfin yellowtail
Longnose eagle ray
Longnose sawtail catshark
Longnose stingray
Longnose trevally
Longtail stingray
Lookdown
Lost River sucker
Louisiana pancake batfish
Lucky iron fish
Lutjanus fulvus
Mackerel
Mackerel scad
Macrourus berglax
Magosternarchus
Malabar trevally
Malapterurus beninensis
Mangrove whipray
Marbled whipray
Margariscus
Masked stingaree
Mastacembelus ellipsifer
Medialuna ancietae
Mekong freshwater stingray
Melanocetus murrayi
Menticirrhus americanus
Menticirrhus saxatilis
Mexican blind brotula
Mexican native trout
Microchirus azevia
Micromyzon akamai
Milk shark
Millet butterflyfish
Mimagoniates microlepis
Mirrorwing flyingfish
Mitotic stingaree
Mobula kuhlii
Mobula munkiana
Mogurnda adspersa
Monacanthus chinensis
Monacanthus ciliatus
Monocentridae
Monterrey Spanish mackerel
Mormyrinae
Mouse catshark
Mullus barbatus
Murray River rainbowfish
Mylossoma duriventris
Myrichthys maculosus
Myxocyprinus
Nanocetorhinus
Narcine entemedor
Narrowbar swellshark
Naso vlamingii
Natal shyshark
Neocyema
Neosilurus hyrtlii
New Caledonian stingaree
New Ireland stingaree
New Zealand eagle ray
Niger stingray
Night shark
Nomorhamphus ebrardtii
Northern river shark
Northern sawtail catshark
Northern sennet
Northern whiting
Notoscopelus bolini
Notoscopelus caudispinosus
Notoscopelus elongatus
Notoscopelus kroyeri
Notoscopelus resplendens
Novaculichthys
Nursehound
Opisthoproctus
Orange-spotted trevally
Oreochromis aureus
Ornate rainbowfish
Ornate wobbegong
Ossubtus
Ostracoderm
Ouachita madtom
Oval electric ray
Owens pupfish
Oxyurichthys microlepis
Ozichthys
Pacific angelshark
Pacific blue-eye
Pacific chupare
Pacific crevalle jack
Pacific herring
Pacific leaping blenny
Pacu
Pain in fish
Painted swellshark
Palatogobius grandoculus
Paleopsephurus
Papyrocranus afer
Parapercis alboguttata
Parapercis hexophtalma
Parapterois
Pareuchiloglanis
Pariosternarchus
Patchwork stingaree
Peacock flounder
Pearl stingray
Pebbled butterflyfish
Pelagic fish
Peppered catshark
Halloween darter
Percina roanoka
Permit (fish)
Phallichthys
Phallichthys amates
Phallichthys tico
Philypnodon grandiceps
Philypnodon macrostomus
Phreatobius cisternarum
Viktor Pietschmann
Pimelodus pictus
Pincushion ray
Pineapplefish
Pinguipes brasilianus
Pinguipes chilensis
Pinhead pearlfish
Pinirampus
Pink salmon
Pitted stingray
Platax
Plate fish
Platycephalus endrachtensis
Poecilia catemaconis
Poecilia chica
Poecilia gillii
Poecilia kykesis
Poecilia orri
Poecilia petenensis
Poecilia picta
Poecilia vivipara
Poeciliopsis lucida
Poeciliopsis monacha
Poeciliopsis prolifica
Pomacanthus semicirculatus
Pomacanthus xanthometopon
Pondicherry shark
Porbeagle
Porcupine ray
Potomac sculpin
Prietella
Prognathodes aculeatus
Protemblemaria perla
Protoblepharon rosenblatti
Pseudolithoxus
Psychedelic frogfish
Puffadder shyshark
Purple eagle ray
Pygmy ribbontail catshark
Pygmy seahorse
Pygmy whitefish
Pyjama shark
Queen parrotfish
Rainbow runner
Rajiformes
Razorbelly scad
Red Irish lord
Red-lined wrasse
Red porgy
Red stingray
Redeye gaper
Redside dace
Redtail splitfin
Rendahl's messmate
Reticulate whipray
Retroculus lapidifer
Rhina ancylostoma
Rhinesomus
Rhinogobiops
Rhinogobius flumineus
Rhinopias frondosa
Rhycherus filamentosus
Rhynchactis
C. Richard Robins
Robust redhorse
Romanogobio uranoscopus
Rosefin shiner
Rostroraja texana
Roughnose stingray
Roughtail catshark
Roughtail stingray
Round fantail stingray
Round ribbontail ray
Round scad
Royal fish
Sabertooth fish
Sacramento splittail
Sacred Cod
Saddled swellshark
Salmon run
Sand steenbras
Santanichthys
Sarcoglanidinae
Sargassum fish
Satanoperca lilith
Saucereye porgy
Savannah darter
Scarus globiceps
School shark
Scorpaenopsis diabolus
Seaweed blenny
Semicossyphus darwini
Serpent eel
Shadow trevally
Shagreen ray
Shark agonistic display
Shark meat
List of threatened sharks
Sharpsnout stingray
Sharptail mola
Sheepshead minnow
Shoaling and schooling
Short-tail stingray
Shortnose sturgeon
Shrimp scad
Sicyopterus lagocephalus
Siganus doliatus
Sillago
Silver pearlfish
Sixbar wrasse
Slender grouper
Slender sawtail catshark
Small-eyed whiting
Small-scale whiting
Smallmouth scad
Smallscale archerfish
Smalltooth sand tiger
Smooth lanternshark
Smooth toadfish
Snake mackerel
Snakeskin gourami
Snubnosed eel
Sommen charr
Soringa whiting
Sorubim
Southern African frilled shark
Southern sawtail catshark
Southern sennet
Spadenose shark
Sparsely spotted stingaree
Spawn (biology)
Speartooth shark
Speckled catshark
Speckled swellshark
Spicara maena
Spicara smaris
Spined loach
Spined pygmy shark
Spinner shark
Spiny-back eel
Spiny butterfly ray
Spot-tail shark
Spottail pinfish
Spotted blue-eye
Spotted houndshark
Spotted stingaree
Spotted swellshark
Spotted wobbegong
Springer's sawtail catshark
Squatina mapama
Squatina squatina
Star pearlfish
Starry smooth-hound
Stegastes leucostictus
Steindachneridion
Steinitz' prawn goby
Stephanolepis cirrhifer
Stephanolepis hispidus
Sternarchogiton nattereri
Sternoptyx diaphana
Stomias boa boa
Stoplight loosejaw
Stout whiting
Sturddlefish
Sturgeon
Surf bream
Swell shark
Sydney skate
Symphurus thermophilus
Synbranchus marmoratus
Synodus intermedius
Synodus isolatus
Taillight shark
Tawny nurse shark
Tecopa pupfish
Telatrygon acutirostra
Tembeassu marauna
Thaumatichthys
Thelodonti
Thoburnia rhothoeca
Thornback cowfish
Thorntail stingray
Threadfin acara
Threadfin jack
Tidepool sculpin
Tinirau clackae
Totoaba
Toxotes chatareus
Toxotes kimberleyensis
Toxotes lorentzi
Trachelyopterus insignis
Trachinotus goodei
Trimma nasa
Trimma tevegae
Trypauchen vagina
Tsunami fish
Tubemouth whipray
Typhleotris mararybe
Urolophidae
Vadigo
Velvet belly lanternshark
Verlorenvlei redfin
Vinciguerria attenuata
Vinciguerria lucetia
Violet goby
Vision in fish
Walking fish
Warming's lantern fish
Weberian apparatus
West African bichir
West African catshark
West coast seabream
Western Atlantic seabream
Western shovelnose stingaree
White-edge freshwater whipray
White-margin fin smooth-hound
Whitecheek shark
Whitefin dogfish
Whitefin swellshark
Whitefin trevally
Whitenose whipray
Whitespotted grouper
Wide stingaree
Wimple piranha
The world's 100 most threatened species
Woundfin
Xiphophorus milleri
Xiphophorus nigrensis
Xiphophorus pygmaeus
Yantai stingray
Yellow-edged moray
Yellow shovelnose stingaree
Yellowfin whiting
Yellowhead wrasse
Yellowspotted catshark
Yellowspotted trevally
Yellowtail scad
Yellowtail trumpeter
Zebra shark
Zebrasoma scopas
Australian angelshark
Liopropoma santi
Cloudy catshark
Leopard catshark
Longhead catshark
Narrowmouthed catshark
Narrowtail catshark
Atlantic sawtail catshark
Longfin sawtail catshark
Slender catshark
Whitesaddled catshark
Chromis nitida
Pennant coralfish
Portuguese dogfish
Yellowtail flounder
Flying fox (fish)
Brazilian guitarfish
Atka mackerel
Keeltail needlefish
Pacific ocean perch
Pluma porgy
Arothron multilineatus
Spearfish remora
Torpedo scad
Fluffy sculpin
Galapagos shark
Whitespot ghost shark
Sicklefin lemon shark
Rainbow shark
Whitetip reef shark
Silky shark
Sharpnose shiner
Barndoor skate
Little skate
Mottled skate
Humpback smooth-hound
Speckled smooth-hound
Spotless smooth-hound
Sandyback stingaree
Striped stingaree
Groovebelly stingray
Pale-edged stingray
Smalleye stingray
Marlin sucker
White suckerfish
Honeycomb whipray
Western school whiting