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Fish

Large category that can include any member of the classes Cephalochordata (lancelets), Agnatha (hagfish and lampreys), Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays), Holocephali (ghost sharks), Osteichthyes (bony fish), Gastropoda (gastropods), Pelecypoda (bivalves), Cephalopoda (cephalopods), and Crustacea (crustaceans).

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Hammerhead shark

Animals; Fish

Hammerhead sharks habit in warm waters near the cost. There exist 9 species of this kind of animals; the biggest one can be up to 6 meters. They have grey skin (they become tan with the sun) and ...

Stingray

Animals; Fish

Stingrays are cartilaginous fishes which are a kind of rays and that are related to sharks. They live in tropical and subtropical marine waters and some species live in freshwater. They have a flat ...

Horn shark

Animals; Fish

The horn shark is a species of shark, which live in the coastal waters of the western coast of North America. They are not big; they length about 1 m. They are nocturne lonely predators, and they ...

Swordfish

Animals; Fish

The swordfish is named after its bill resembling a sword . This makes it superficially similar to other billfish such as marlin, but upon examination their physiology is quite different and they are ...

Grilse

Animals; Fish

Salmon first returning to the river from the sea.

Paedocypris progenetica

Animals; Fish

A tiny fish found in Indonesia's Sumatra Island is the smallest vertebrate animal in the world. The creature is called "Paedocypris progenetica" and is related to the tent, although it measures only ...

Yelting

Animals; Fish

The Florida and West Indian red, glass-eyed snapper ; also, sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as L. caxis.

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