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All fish

1,147 fish so far, best known first. 16 more are on the list to be written.

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🇦🇺 AustraliaDwarf sawfish Smallest sawfish species, native to tropical Australia and New Guinea.Ray · Estuaries and mangroves

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreBat ray A large eagle ray with wing-like fins found in the eastern Pacific.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreCownose ray A migratory coastal ray with a distinctive head shape.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreRound stingray A small coastal ray from the eastern Pacific known for its painful tail spine.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAtlantic stingray Small stingray found in Atlantic coastal waters and fresh rivers.Ray · Rivers and lakes · 1824

🇹🇭 Thailand and 3 moreGiant freshwater stingray The widest freshwater fish in the world, found in Southeast Asian rivers.Ray · Rivers and lakes · 1852

🇺🇸 United StatesBig skate Largest skate in North American Pacific watersRay · Coasts and shelves · 1855

🇦🇺 Australia and 4 moreLargetooth sawfish A critically endangered ray with a toothed rostrum that enters rivers.Ray · Rivers and lakes

🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSmalltooth sawfish Critically endangered Atlantic sawfish with a toothed rostrum.Ray · Coasts and shelves

🇦🇺 Australia and 4 moreLongcomb sawfish A critically endangered sawfish with a toothed rostrum.Ray · Coasts and shelves

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Dwarf sawfish: Gant223, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Bat ray: Martin Holst Friborg Pedersen, CC BY 2.0, source
Cownose ray: This illustration was made by Citron You must credit this : Citron / C, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Round stingray: michael h j c, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Sawfish: Diliff, CC BY 2.5, source
Atlantic stingray: ksr8s, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Giant freshwater stingray: Barry Rogge, CC BY 2.0, source
Big skate: NOAA - AFSC, Public domain, source
Smalltooth sawfish: D Ross Robertson, Public domain, source
Longcomb sawfish: Flavio Ferrari, CC BY-SA 2.0, source

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