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This article lists wide variety or diversity of fish in the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the state of Florida in the United States. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Also known as the pennant-fish and threadfin trevally. [ 4] Largest exclusively freshwater fish found in North America, measuring 8 to 10 feet. Lives in fresh water and estuaries, migrating to spawn in ...
It is a marine pelagic fish found around the world in temperate and subtropical waters, except for the northern Pacific Ocean. Bluefish are known as tailor in Australia and New Zealand, [ 5] elf and shad in South Africa. [ 6][ 7] It is a popular gamefish and food fish . The bluefish is a moderately proportioned fish, with a broad, forked tail.
Acanthocybium petus (Poey, 1860) Cybium verany Döderlein, 1872. Acanthocybium forbesi Seale, 1912. Scomber amarui Curtiss, 1938. Wahoo ( Acanthocybium solandri) is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. It is best known to sports fishermen, as its speed and high-quality flesh makes it a prized and valued game fish.
Pterois antennata, by Chmehl. Red lionfish, by Jens Petersen. Dried seahorse used in traditional Chinese medicine, by Digon3 (edited by John O'Neill) Great white shark, by Pterantula (edited by Althepal) Oscar, by Jón Helgi Jónsson. Pennant coralfish, by Fir0002. Camouflaged flounder, by Moondigger.
Halibut. Atlantic halibut. Halibut is the common name for three flatfish in the genera Hippoglossus and Reinhardtius from the family of right-eye flounders and, in some regions, and less commonly, other species of large flatfish. The word is derived from haly (holy) and butte (flat fish), for its popularity on Catholic holy days. [ 1]
A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits. Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish , the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish , as well as the extinct placoderms and ...
(sport fish) Micropterus dolomieu: 2005 [61] Channel catfish (state commercial fish) Ictalurus punctatus: 1987 [61] Texas: Guadalupe bass (freshwater) Micropterus treculii: 1989 [62] Red drum (saltwater) Sciaenops ocellatus: 2011 [62] Utah: Bonneville cutthroat trout: Oncorhynchus clarkii (subspecies utah) 1997 [63] Vermont: Brook trout (cold ...
The largest fish of the now-extinct class Placodermi was the giant predatory Dunkleosteus. The largest and most well known species was D. terrelli, which grew almost 9 m (29.5 ft) in length [ 21] and 4 t (4.4 short tons) [ 22] in weight. Its filter feeding relative, Titanichthys, may have rivaled it in size. [ 23]