Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Rajiformes Family: Rajidae Description The jaws of the skate is wide and powerful it located on the ventral side of the organism as it is feeds on the bottom surface. There are between 40–56 rows of teeth present in each of the...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Superorder: Batoidea Description The Stingrays settle on the bottom while feeding, and it is feeds primarily on molluscs, crustaceans, and occasionally on small fish. Some stingrays’ mouths contain two powerful, shell-crushing plates. The dental plates of a ray is characteristic of a cockscomb...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Pristiformes Family: Pristidae Genus: Anoxypristis Species: A. cuspidata Description The head of pointed sawfish is flattened. The snout is like a bkade bearing 18-22 pairs of lateral teeth. The blade like snout is slender, not tapering distally. Nostrils very narrow with small...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Rajiformes Family: Rajidae Genus: Raja Species: R. clavata Specimen Description Since, the Raja Clavata is living at the bottom of the continental shelf and upper slope of the coastal sea floor, the jaws and teeth are exclusively designed to feed on larger...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Carcharhinidae Genus: Galeocerdo Species: G. cuvier Specimen Description The tiger shark has very powerful jaws with distinct dentition. The jaws house large teeth with curved cusps and finely serrated edges. Each tooth has a deep notch on the outer margin...
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...
