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Fish of North America

190 fish from North America on EveryFish so far.

North AmericaGreen moray Largest tropical Atlantic moray eel with green mucus coatingEel · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United StatesGaribaldi Bright orange damselfish and official marine state fish of California.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves · 1860

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAtlantic sturgeon A large anadromous fish native to the western Atlantic Ocean and its river systems.Ancient · Rivers and lakes

North AmericaFoureye butterflyfish Atlantic reef fish with false eyespots for defenceReef fish · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreYellow tang Bright yellow Pacific reef fish kept in marine aquariums.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves · 1828

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSailfin molly Small livebearing fish with a large dorsal fin in males.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes · 1821

North AmericaYellow stingray Small, camouflaging stingray of the western Atlantic.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1816

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreBat ray A large eagle ray with wing-like fins found in the eastern Pacific.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreCownose ray A migratory coastal ray with a distinctive head shape.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreRound stingray A small coastal ray from the eastern Pacific known for its painful tail spine.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United StatesSpotted ratfish Cartilaginous fish with a rat-like tail and venomous spineOther · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAtlantic stingray Small stingray found in Atlantic coastal waters and fresh rivers.Ray · Rivers and lakes · 1824

🇺🇸 United StatesBig skate Largest skate in North American Pacific watersRay · Coasts and shelves · 1855

🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreSwell shark A catshark that inflates its body for defenceShark · Coasts and shelves · 1880

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreLeopard shark A coastal Pacific houndshark with black saddle markings and spots.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1854

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreHorn shark Small spotted bullhead shark from the eastern Pacific coast.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1855

🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSmalltooth sawfish Critically endangered Atlantic sawfish with a toothed rostrum.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇨🇦 Canada and 1 moreAtlantic sharpnose shark Small requiem shark of the western Atlantic coastShark · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 3 morePorkfish Striped Atlantic grunt found on reefs and in seagrass beds.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1758

🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreLined seahorse A western Atlantic seahorse with white neck lines and male pregnancy.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1810

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreStriped bass Anadromous marine fish native to the Atlantic coast of North America, known for sport fishing and culinary use.Other · Rivers and lakes

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Green moray: Blueag9, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Garibaldi: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Atlantic sturgeon: Jiaqian AirplaneFan, CC BY 3.0, source
Foureye butterflyfish: Dan Schofield, CC BY 4.0, source
Yellow tang: Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Sailfin molly: (c) Nick Tobler (Cowturtle), some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0, source
Chimaeras: Linda Snook / MBNMS, Public domain, source
Yellow stingray: Chris Spain, CC0, source
Bat ray: Martin Holst Friborg Pedersen, CC BY 2.0, source
Cownose ray: This illustration was made by Citron You must credit this : Citron / C, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Round stingray: michael h j c, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Atlantic stingray: ksr8s, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Big skate: NOAA - AFSC, Public domain, source
Swell shark: Cliff, CC BY 2.0, source
Leopard shark: Mfield , Matthew Field, www.photography.mattfield.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Horn shark: Ed Bierman, CC BY 2.0, source
Smalltooth sawfish: D Ross Robertson, Public domain, source
Atlantic sharpnose shark: Chris_huh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Porkfish: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Lined seahorse: No machine-readable author provided. Stevenj assumed (based on copyrig, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Striped bass: Steven G. Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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