Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Ostraciidae Genus: Ostracion Species: O. nasus Description Ostracion nasus is known as the Shortnose boxfish is a species of boxfish found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This species grows to a length of 30 centimetres. It has a typical box shape just like every box fish. The eyes are...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Uranoscopidae Genus: Ichthyscopus Description Ichthyscopus Lebeck is a ray-finned fish species from the family of stargazer, their head and body is compressed. Mouth is large, protractile, almost vertical. The respiratory valve inside lower jaw without dermal appendage. Both of the lips are with fimbriate ridges....
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Aulopiformes Family: Synodontidae Genus: Saurida Species: S. tumbil Description Greater lizardfish has a cigar-shaped body, rounded or slightly compressed. The head pointed and depressed, the snout broader than long. Color is generally brown above and silver below, the back with faint cross...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Beryciformes Family: Holocentridae Genus: Sargocentron Species: S. rubrum Description Sargocentron rubrum is a colourful fish, that live in the marine environment their body has subequal stripes of brownish red and silvery white, spinous dorsal dark red with a large, quadrangular, whitish blotch...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Osteoglossiformes Family: Notopteridae Genus: Notopterus Species: N. notopterus Physical Description The Bronze Featherback Notopterus notopterus gets its name from the small dorsal fin on its back. This fin stands upright and sways back and forth just like a feather in the wind. The adult...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Osteostraci Genus: Cephalaspis Species: C. lyelli Description Cephalaspis is a jawless fish that swam through the waters of the Devonian. Although jawless, it still had a mouth that was situated to the underside of the head, suggesting that it was a bottom feeder. Also there...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Placodermi Order: Antiarchi Family: Bothriolepididae Genus: Bothriolepis Description This is a bottom feeding armored fish lived in brackish water and seas, in the middle of the Late Devonian period, about 370 million years ago. Bothriolepis canadensis is belongs to a diverse genus of antiarch placoderms. Historically, Bothriolepis resided in an...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gasterosteiformes Family: Syngnathidae Genus: Hippocampus Species: H. guttulatus Physical Description It has a small but distinct coronet, with 5 rounded knobs or blunt points. The horizontal plate in front of coronet as high as coronet itself, with a more or less prominent...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Diodontidae Genus: Diodon Species: D. liturosus Physical Description The Black-blotched porcupinefish is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 65 cm (26 in), but the average size most likely to be observed is 45 cm (18 in). Its body is elongated with a spherical head...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Myliobatiformes Family: Dasyatidae Genus: Himantura Species: H. walga Description The dwarf whipray has a maximum length of 45 cm (18 in). The disc width is commonly about 24 cm (9 in). In outline it is oval with a bluntly-pointed snout. The whip-like tail is longer than...
