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Doctor fish (nibble fish) live and breed in the outdoor pools of some Turkish spas, where they feed on the skin of patients with psoriasis. The fish are like cleaner fish in that they only consume the affected and dead areas of the skin, leaving the healthy skin to recover.
The largetooth sawfish is a predator that feeds on fish, molluscs and crustaceans. [4] The "saw" can be used both to stir up the bottom to find prey and to slash at groups of fish. [6] [12] Sawfish are docile and harmless to humans, except when captured where they can inflict serious injuries when defending themselves with the "saw". [12] [26]
Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the subfamily Macrourinae, [1] the largest subfamily of the family Macrouridae. Found at great depths from the Arctic to Antarctic, members of this subfamily are amongst the most abundant of the deep-sea fish. [2]
Tautog are brown and dark olive, with white blotches, and have plump, elongated bodies. They have a typical weight of 0.5 to 1.5 kg (1 to 3 lb) and reach a maximum length and weight of 90 cm (3 ft) and 13.1 kg (28 lb 14 oz), respectively.
Anarhichadidae, the wolffishes, sea wolves or wolf eels, is a family of marine ray finned fishes belonging to the order Scorpaeniformes.These are predatory, eel shaped fishes which are native to the cold waters of the Arctic, North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans.
Galjoen is the national fish of South Africa. The suggestion to make it the national fish came from Margaret Smith, the wife of ichthyologist J. L. B. Smith, to find a marine equivalent to the springbok. [1]
The leopard whipray is found on or near the bottom, preferring fine sediment. The leopard whipray has been reported from off eastern India and Sri Lanka, throughout Southeast Asia including the Philippines, southern Japan and Taiwan, New Guinea, and northern Australia from Coral Bay to the Cape York Peninsula.
Schelly is the common name of four populations of freshwater whitefish in the English Lake District, Cumbria.The native populations of this fish inhabit the Brothers Water, Haweswater, Red Tarn and Ullswater, and occupy a total area of about 20 square kilometers. [1]