Search: sexual dimorphism
Concepts
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreSockeye salmon
Anadromous Pacific salmon known for red spawning colour and zooplankton diet.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1792
WorldHairy angler
A deep-sea anglerfish with thread-like fins found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.Shark · Deep sea · 1930
🇨🇳 China and 4 moreChinese hooksnout carp
A small freshwater minnow native to East and Southeast Asia.Carp · Rivers and lakes
WorldAtlantic footballfish
Deep-sea anglerfish with a glowing lureOther · Open ocean · 1837
WorldAnglerfish
Ray-finned fish using a modified dorsal fin ray as a lure to catch prey.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1829
WorldHumpback anglerfish
Deep-sea black seadevil with a glowing lureOther · Open ocean · 1863
WorldTriplewart seadevil
A deep-sea anglerfish with extreme sexual dimorphism and parasitic males.Other · Deep sea · 1883
WorldBlack dragonfish
Deep-sea fish with infrared light and stalked larval eyesOther · Open ocean
WorldPacific blackdragon
Deep-sea fish with light-absorbing skin and a glowing chin lure.Other · Open ocean
🇲🇽 MexicoButterfly splitfin
A critically endangered livebearing fish from Mexico.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes · 1971
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- 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
- Chinese hooksnout carp: Frank M. Greco, CC BY 3.0, source
- Atlantic footballfish: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Anglerfish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Humpback anglerfish: Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Triplewart seadevil: Dr Tony Ayling, CC BY-SA 1.0, source
- Black dragonfish: GM. Woodward, Public domain, source
- Pacific blackdragon: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Butterfly splitfin: Przemysław Malkowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, source