Search: western atlantic
North AmericaGreen moray
Largest tropical Atlantic moray eel with green mucus coatingEel · Coasts and shelves
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreFrench angelfish
A slow-growing Caribbean reef fish known for its sponge diet.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves · 1799
WorldBluehead wrasse
A small Atlantic reef fish known for changing sex and colour.Other · Coral reefs
🇺🇸 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 AmericaNassau grouper
A large reef fish critical to Caribbean fisheries now facing extinction risks.Perch-like · Coral reefs
North AmericaFoureye butterflyfish
Atlantic reef fish with false eyespots for defenceReef fish · Coasts and shelves
North AmericaStoplight parrotfish
A colourful reef grazer that changes sex from female to male.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreRainbow parrotfish
Largest Atlantic parrotfish found on coral reefs and in mangroves.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves
WorldRoyal gramma
Small violet and yellow reef fish from the western Atlantic.Reef fish · Coral reefs
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAlewife
A small North American herring that migrates between sea and rivers.Herring · Coasts and shelves
WorldQueen angelfish
A colourful reef fish with a blue crown spot.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves · 1758
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
- French angelfish: LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo), CC BY 2.0, source
- Bluehead wrasse: (c) JamesLaFontaine, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0, source
- Atlantic sturgeon: Jiaqian AirplaneFan, CC BY 3.0, source
- Nassau grouper: q phia, CC BY 2.0, source
- Foureye butterflyfish: Dan Schofield, CC BY 4.0, source
- Stoplight parrotfish: Adona9 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rainbow parrotfish: Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble, CC BY 2.0, source
- Royal gramma: Smithsonian Institution, No restrictions, source
- Alewife: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Queen angelfish: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source