Fish

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 […]

A freshwater South American knifefish capable of generating up to 860-volt electric discharges. Electrophorus electricus is the best-known species of electric eel. It is a South American electric fish. Until the discovery of two additional species in 2019, the genus was classified as the monotypic, with this species the only one in the genus. Despite

Elongated, snake-like fish of the order Anguilliformes. Unagi, popular in Japanese cuisine, is eel. The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels. All the extant species and six subspecies in this family are in the genus Anguilla, and are elongated fish of snake-like bodies, with long dorsal, caudal and anal

A small shark species common in temperate oceans. Despite the name, dogfish are cartilaginous fish, not fish-and-chip “rock salmon” in any kosher sense. The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), 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.

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

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

Freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters. Popular in Cajun and Nordic cuisine. The Caridea, commonly known as caridean shrimp or true shrimp (from Ancient Greek καρίς, καρίδος (karís, karídos, “shrimp”), are an infraorder of shrimp within the order Decapoda. This infraorder contains all species of true shrimp. They are found widely around the world in both

Decapod crustaceans with short tails folded under their bodies and a thick, protective exoskeleton. The blonde ray or blonde skate (Raja brachyura) is a species of cartilaginous fish in the skate family Rajidae. It is found in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Description Like all rays, the blonde ray has a flattened body with

Large marine eels found along Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, sometimes weighing over 100 kg. The daggertooth pike conger (Muraenesox cinereus) also known as the darkfin pike eel in Australia, to distinguish it from the related pike-eel (Muraenesox bagio), is a species of eel in the pike conger family, Muraenesocidae. They primarily live on soft bottoms

Large marine gastropods with distinctive spiral shells, eaten in Caribbean cuisine. Aliger gigas, originally known as Strombus gigas or more recently as Lobatus gigas, commonly known as the queen conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family of true conches, the Strombidae. This species is one of the