Spiny-finned Fish
Of teleost fish and Acanthopterygii. May also be referred to as acanthopterygian.
A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays.
This concept's ID is @1~13434
Antennariidae
- frogfish
Fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout.
- sargassum fish
Small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum.
Also contains
- percoid fish
Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes.
- scorpaenoid
Fishes having the head armored with bony plates.
- flatfish
Any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor...
- plectognath
Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with...
- squirrelfish
Very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or...
- remora
Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching...
- stickleback
Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh...
- silversides
Small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast...
- barracuda
Any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body...
- monkfish
Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey.
- toadfish
Bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mo...
- dory
Marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters.
- batfish
Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body...
- anomalops
Fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto...
- flashlight fish
Fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye.
- sand lance
Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
- dragonet
Small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm...
- boarfish
Fish with a projecting snout.
- boarfish
Fish with large eyes and long snouts.