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...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Siluriformes Family: Clariidae Genus: Clarias Species: C. batrachus Physical Description The walking catfish has an elongated body shape, and reaches almost 0.5 m in length and 1.2 kg in weight. Often covered laterally in small white spots, the body is mainly coloured a gray or...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Anguillidae Genus: Anguilla Species: A. australis Physical Description Shortfin eels are one of the three Anguillidae species found in New Zealand. They differ from longfin eels in the length of their dorsal fin. In shortfin eels, the dorsal and anal...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Ostraciidae Genus: Tetrosomus Species: T. gibbosus Description This is a peaceful species. Humpback Turretfish can grow up to 30 cm what is approximately 11 inches. It have a very distinctive shape. The dorsal surface of their body is sharp and...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Echeneidae Genus: Echeneis Species: E. naucrates Physical Description Echeneis naucrates has modified dorsal fin used as a sucking disc to attach to hosts makes the sharksucker easy to distinguish from other fish. This oval-shaped sucking disc consists of 16-28 laminae...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Pleuronectiformes Family: Cynoglossidae Genus: Cynoglossus Species: C. dubius Description Cynoglossus dubius, is commonly known as the Carrot tonguesole because of it’s shape reassembles a laterally compressed carrot. It is a species of tonguefish. The fish have pointing anterior and posterior ends the dorsal and the...
