Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Gobiidae Subfamily: Gobionellinae Genus: Awaous Species: A. banana Physical Description Awaous banana, the River goby, is a species of goby native to fresh and brackish water stream and rivers. The body is thin, long, and narrow with a medium-sized round eye and a terminal small...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Lophiiformes Family: Ogcocephalidae Genus: Ogcocephalus Species: O. vespertilio Description The Brazzilian Batfish or the seadevil is belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, they live to depths of up to 3300 feet on the ocean-floor, covered in sand. The fish are flat, resembling pancakes. It...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Scorpaeniformes Family: Dactylopteridae Genus: Dactyloptena Species: D. orientalis Physical Description The Oriental flying gurnard is a box like fish covered in heavy armor with extra large pectoral fins. The head is large and the body tapers down to a thin point on the caudal...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Beloniformes Family: Exocoetidae Genus: Exocoetus Species: E. volitans Physical Description The Tropical Two-wing Flyingfish have elongated broadly cylindrical bodies. They are dark dorsally and silvery ventrally. Their fins are pale to slightly dusky. They have a short head with a short blunt snout...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Congridae Genus: Conger Species: C. conger Physical Description Conger conger has a snake-like body, but scaleless, slightly compressed anteriorly, well compressed posteriorly to anus, the latter before midpoint of body, dorsal outline of head convex, depressed over eye. Eye is...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Pomacanthidae Genus: Apolemichthys Species: A. xanthurus Physical Description The Indian Yellowtail Angelfish belong to the family Pomacanthidae. This is a mid-sized angel that will only grow to about 6 inches (15 cm) in length. It is creamy overall, bordered entirely with...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Triacanthidae Genus: Triacanthus Species: T. biaculeatus Physical Description Triacanthus biaculeatus, also known as the Short-nosed tripod fish, is a species of marine fish in the family Triacanthidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean Triacanthus biaculeatus has a...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Molidae Genus: Mola Species: M. mola Physical Description Ocean sunfish have a large body that is compressed and ovular. They are the largest bony fish, measuring up to 3.1 m in length, 4.26 m in height, and weighing up to...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Polypteriformes Family: Polypteridae Genus: Polypterus Species: P. senegalus Specimen Description Polypterus senegalus has diphycercal tail which is the tail having two lobes the upper and lower and the two lobes are identical and alike, so and the vertebral column extending to the...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Ostraciidae Genus: Ostracion Species: O. cubicus Physical Description Ostracion cubicus can be easly identified by it’s unique box shaped body with bright colouration most of them have black spots on them. Juveniles bright yellow with black spots, the spots decrease...
