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🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreWest Indian Ocean coelacanth
Rare deep-sea fish with blue scales and limb-like fins.Ancient · Deep sea · 1938
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 moreCoelacanth
Ancient lobe-finned fish thought extinct until rediscovered in the twentieth century.Ancient · Coasts and shelves · 1839
OceaniaOrange clownfish
Bright orange reef fish with three white barsReef fish · Coral reefs
WorldMarine hatchetfish
Small deep-sea fish with a distinctive compressed body shape and bioluminescent camouflage.Other · Open ocean
🇺🇸 United StatesReef triggerfish
Hawaii’s official state fish with a pig-like snoutReef fish · Coral reefs
WorldPowder blue tang
A bright blue reef fish from the Indian Ocean.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves · 1833
WorldBarreleye
Deep-sea argentiniform fish with transparent heads and tubular eyes.Other · Deep sea
WorldTripod fish
Deep-sea fish that stands on elongated finsOther · Open ocean
WorldYellowstripe goatfish
A small Indo-Pacific reef fish with yellow fins and shrimp-like taste.Other · Coasts and shelves
WorldOriental sweetlips
Striped reef fish with swollen lips found in the Indo-Pacific.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1758
WorldGreat barracuda
Large predatory fish found in warm oceans worldwide.Other · Coasts and shelves
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Oriental sweetlips: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Coelacanth: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Orange clownfish: Karelj, Public domain, source
- Marine hatchetfish: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- West Indian Ocean coelacanth: sybarite48, CC BY 2.0, source
- Reef triggerfish: Qyd ( talk · contribs ), CC BY 2.5, source
- Powder blue tang: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Barreleye: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tripod fish: null, CC BY 4.0, source
- Yellowstripe goatfish: Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR, Public domain, source
- Great barracuda: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source