Fish

Pike

The northern pike, also known as jack, northern or simply pike, is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (pikes). It is commonly found in fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Pigfish

Orthopristis chrysoptera, the pigfish, hogfish, piggy perch, redmouth grunt or sailor’s choice, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grunt belonging to the family Haemulidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean.

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Pickerel

The chain pickerel, also known as Jackfish, Mud Pike, or Southern Pike is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family of order Esociformes. The chain pickerel and the American pickerel belong to the Esox genus of pike.

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Perch

The European perch, also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Euro perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch, poor man’s rockfish or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the perch, is a predatory freshwater fish native to Europe and North Asia. It is the type species of.

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Parrotfish

Family Scaridae. Including: Parrotfishes and uhus (Scarus species, Slparisoma species) Parrotfish (named because their mouths resemble a parrot’s beak) are a clade (a fundamental grouping in evolutionary biology consisting of a single common ancestor and all of its descendants) of fish placed in the subfamily Scarinae of the wrasse family (Labridae). Formerly treated as their

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Palometa

See: Jacks Palometa is a name used for several species of fish: Freshwater Catoprion mento, the wimple piranha from several South American river basins Metynnis, a genus of serrasalmid from several South American river basins Myloplus rubripinnis, the redhook myleus from several South American river basins Mylossoma, a genus of serrasalmid from several South American

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Opaleye

Girella nigricans, commonly known as the opaleye or rudderfish, is a species of sea chub found in the Eastern Pacific, from California to southern Baja California. A rarely documented isolated population also exists in the Gulf of California, which might be genetically different from the rest of the species.

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Needlefish

Family Beslonidae. Needlefishes or marine gars (strongylura species, Tylosuru species) Needlefish (family Belonidae) or long toms are piscivorous fishes primarily associated with very shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea. Some genera include species found in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments (e.g., Strongylura), while a few genera are confined to freshwater rivers

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Muttonfish

See: Snappers The mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy The mutton snapper was first formally described in 1828 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with the type locality given as Santo Domingo in the

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