Fish

Imitation crab

A paste of minced whitefish shaped and flavored to resemble crab meat. Commonly found in sushi rolls. Surimi (Japanese: 擂り身 / すり身; ‘ground meat’) is a paste made from fish or other meat. It can also be any of a number of East Asian foods that use that paste as their primary ingredient. It is […]

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Horseshoe crab

The Atlantic horseshoe crab, also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a kind of marine and brackish chelicerate arthropod. It is found in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Hagfish

Eel-shaped jawless fish known for producing enormous volumes of slime as a defense mechanism. Hagfish, of the class Myxini (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes , are eel-shaped jawless fish (occasionally called slime eels). Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, however they do have rudimentary

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Gar

Long, primitive freshwater fish with elongated bodies and beak-like snouts lined with sharp teeth. Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. They comprise seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine waters of eastern North America, Central America and Cuba in the Caribbean,

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Frogfish

Small, often brightly coloured ambush predators that “walk” on their pectoral fins along the reef bottom. The sargassum fish, anglerfish, or frog fish (Histrio histrio) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes, the only species in the genus Histrio. It lives among Sargassum seaweed which floats in subtropical

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Eel

The European eel is a species of eel. Their life history was a mystery for thousands of years, and mating in the wild has not yet been observed.

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Dogfish

The spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfishes) family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order.

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Cuttlefish

Marine molluscs with internal shells (cuttlebone) and the ability to rapidly change colour. Cuttlefish, or cuttles, are marine molluscs of the family Sepiidae. They belong to the class Cephalopoda which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone, which is used for control of buoyancy. They have large, W-shaped

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Cusk-eel

Eel-like fish of the family Ophidiidae, distinct from true eels but similarly disqualified. The cusk-eel family, Ophidiidae, is a group of marine bony fishes in the Ophidiiformes order. The scientific name is from the Greek ophis meaning “snake”, and refers to their eel-like appearance. True eels diverged from other ray-finned fish during the Jurassic, while

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