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🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreAfrican sharptooth catfish
Large airbreathing catfish farmed across Africa and AsiaCatfish · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇯 Benin and 4 moreSaddled bichir
A large African freshwater fish with primitive lungs and multiple dorsal finlets.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1845
WorldBichir
Ancient African ray-finned fish with multiple dorsal finlets and lung-like air breathing organs.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
🇸🇳 SenegalNile bichir
An ancient African fish with lungs and armour-like scales.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreWolf fish
A predatory freshwater ray-finned fish found across Central and South America.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 moreCoelacanth
Ancient lobe-finned fish thought extinct until rediscovered in the twentieth century.Ancient · Coasts and shelves · 1839
🇮🇩 IndonesiaIndonesian coelacanth
A rare brown deep-sea fish found in Indonesian waters.Ancient · Open ocean · 1999
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreHoplias aimara
A large freshwater predator from South America known for its size and mercury accumulation.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1846
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreElectric eel
Neotropical freshwater fish capable of generating powerful electric shocks for hunting and defence.Eel · Rivers and lakes · 1766
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- African sharptooth catfish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Saddled bichir: Studdart, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bichir: 5snake5, CC0, source
- Nile bichir: Boulenger, George Albert; Loat, L., Public domain, source
- Wolf fish: J. F. Hennig, Public domain, source
- Coelacanth: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Indonesian coelacanth: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Hoplias aimara: Lars Simonsen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Electric eel: Steven G. Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source