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🇺🇸 United States and 1 morePacific lamprey
An anadromous parasitic jawless fish found along the Pacific Rim.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1872
WorldPacific blackdragon
Deep-sea fish with light-absorbing skin and a glowing chin lure.Other · Open ocean
WorldHairy angler
A deep-sea anglerfish with thread-like fins found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.Shark · Deep sea · 1930
WorldViperfish
Deep-sea fish with fang-like teeth and bioluminescent lures in the genus Chauliodus.Other · Open ocean · 1801
WorldMarine hatchetfish
Small deep-sea fish with a distinctive compressed body shape and bioluminescent camouflage.Other · Open ocean
WorldMariana snailfish
A deep-sea fish from the Mariana Trench with transparent skin and large eggs.Other · Deep sea · 2017
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreGreen sturgeon
A large anadromous fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean.Shark · Coasts and shelves
WorldBarreleye
Deep-sea argentiniform fish with transparent heads and tubular eyes.Other · Deep sea
WorldGiant oarfish
The world's longest ray-finned fish, known for its ribbon-like body and crimson crest.Other · Open ocean · 1772
WorldTripod fish
Deep-sea fish that stands on elongated finsOther · Open ocean
🇵🇭 Philippines and 4 moreMilkfish
The sole living species of the family Chanidae, found across the Indo-Pacific.Other · Coasts and shelves
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 moreGiant grenadier
A large deep-sea rattail from the North Pacific.Other · Open ocean
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreSockeye salmon
Anadromous Pacific salmon known for red spawning colour and zooplankton diet.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1792
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Milkfish: Wiki Farazi, CC0, source
- Sockeye salmon: Timothy Knepp of the Fish and Wildlife Service., Public domain, source
- Hairy angler: No machine-readable author provided. Tambja assumed (based on copyrigh, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Viperfish: NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge 2022, Public domain, source
- Marine hatchetfish: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Green sturgeon: Muséum d'histoire Naturelle, Public domain, source
- Pacific lamprey: Dave Herasimtschuk, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
- Oarfish: Sandstein, CC BY 3.0, source
- Barreleye: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Pacific blackdragon: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tripod fish: null, CC BY 4.0, source
- Giant grenadier: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source