Oceanodromous fish - Fish living in the oceanodromous environment

Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and over distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. Fish usually migrate because of diet or reproductive needs, although in some cases the reason for migration remains unknown.

Order Anguilliformes

Whitespotted conger

Saurenchelys stylura

American conger

Common pike conger - The females lay the eggs off the coasts of Australia; the eggs take 9–10 weeks to hatch.

Baleares conger

Congo

Order Aulopiformes

Scopelosaurus hamiltoni

Atlantic sabretooth

Bigfin pearleye

Duckbill barracudina

Conejo de lo alto - Lancetfishes are large oceanic predatory fishes in the genus Alepisaurus , the only living genus in the family Alepisauridae.

Zugmayer's pearleye

Blackfin waryfish

Scopelarchoides danae

Bombay-duck - The origin of the term "Bombay duck" is uncertain.

Hubb's pearleye

Benthalbella macropinna

Scopelarchoides signifer

Order Beloniformes

Cheilopogon ventralis

Saury

Easter island flyingfish

Danichthys ilma

Hirundichthys socotranus

Whitespot flyingfish

Guinean flyingfish

Spotfin flyingfish

Glider flyingfish

Balao

Cypselurus hexazona

Sailor flyingfish

Manyspotted flyingfish

Blunt-snouted flying fish

California flyingfish

Pharao flyingfish

Bony flyingfish

Keel-jawed needle fish

Cheilopogon katoptron

Blackspot flyingfish

Saury

Cheilopogon abei

Whitetip flyingfish

Dwarf saury

Short-nosed flying fish

Mirrorwing flyingfish - Mirrorwing flyingfish have 10-12 soft rays on their dorsal fins and 11-13 rays on their anal fins.

Shortfin flyingfish

Coromandel flyingfish

Exocoetus gibbosus

African flyingfish

Blotchwing flyingfish

Margined flyingfish

Banded needlefish

African sailfin flyingfish

Tringa flyingfish

Sutton's flyingfish

Exocoetus peruvianus

Cheilopogon pitcairnensis

Largescale flyingfish

Black wing flyingfish

Atlantic flyingfish - Like many other flyingfishes, the Atlantic flyingfish has a cylindrical body, and large tail and pectoral fins that it uses for flight.

Pacific saury - It is known as sanma in Japanese, kongchi in Korean, qiu dao yu in Chinese, and saira in Russian.

Bandwing flyingfish

White-finned flyingfish

Kagu

Flyingfish

Stained flyingfish

Flyingfish

Banded flyingfish

Barred longtom - Although they have no spine, they do have several soft rays.

Barbel flyingfish

Butterfly flyingfish

Cheilopogon intermedius

Cheilopogon doederleinii

Order Carcharhiniformes

Narrownose smooth hound - Narrownose smooth-hounds feed on crabs and probably other crustaceans, and presumably small fishes.

Maneater shark - The tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier is a species of requiem shark and the only member of the genus Galeocerdo.

Bronze - The copper shark has a blunt broad snout, narrow bent cusps on the upper teeth, and no interdorsal ridge.

Blue whaler shark - The blue shark is the most widely distrubted animal in the world.

Eastern school shark - Reproduction is ovoviviparous.

Blackspot shark - *ambiguous synonym

Blacktail reef shark - *ambiguous synonym

Requiem shark - The lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris, is a shark belonging to the family Carcharhinidae that can grow 10 feet long.

Queriman shark - The sandbar shark is also called the thickskin shark or brown shark.

Order Chimaeriformes

Rabbit fish

Ghost shark - It is found off southern Australia, and south of East Cape and Kaipara Harbour in New Zealand, at depths of 200 meters to 500 meters.

Order Clupeiformes

Caspian marine shad - Caspian Marine Shad is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alosa.

Falkland sprat - The Falkland sprat, Sprattus fuegensis, is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found in the subtropical southwest Atlantic Ocean from 40° S to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands.

European pilchard - The terms sardine and pilchard are not precise, and the usual meanings vary by region; for instance, to many people a sardine is a young European pilchard.

European anchovy - It is easily distinguished by its deeply-cleft mouth, the angle of the gape being behind the eyes.

Spotty-face anchovy

Madeiran sardinella - Madeiran Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Zabaleta anchovy

Oceanic anchovy

Brazilian sardinella - Brazilian Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Anchoveta - Anchoveta are pelagic fish in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, and are regularly caught on the coasts of Peru, and Chile.

Key anchovy

Pacific sardine - The South American pilchard, Sardinops sagax, is a sardine of the Family Clupeidae, the only member of the genus Sardinops, found in the indo-Pacific oceans.

Bony fish - Menhaden historically occurred in large numbers in the North Atlantic, ranging from Nova Scotia, Canada to central Florida, USA, although their presence in northern waters has diminished in the 20th Century.

Argentine anchoita - By biomass, it is the largest fish resource of the southwest Atlantic Ocean .

Commerson's anchovy

Bigeye kilka

Bali sardinella - Bali Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Marini's anchovy

Konoshiro gizzard shad

Blue anchovy

Order Elopiformes

Pacific ladyfish - The Pacific Tenpounders have very round bodies with terminal mouths, and profound gill formations known as pseudobranchiae.

Tenpounder - This species is found in coastal regions of the Indian ocean.

Order Gadiformes

Fivebeard rockling - In colour it is has a dark brown back, with a reddish or blackish underside merging with a pale gray-brown.

Blue grenadier - The blue grenadier is the subject of a large commercial fishery industry in New Zealand, which has been certified by the Marine Stewardship Council as well-managed and sustainable in March 2001.

Poutassou - There are 2 disjunct populations:

Senegalese hake

Arrowtail

Whitson's grenadier

Cod - In colour the Greenland cod is generally sombre, ranging from tan to brown to silvery.

Hake - The white hake or mud hake, Urophycis tenuis, is a phycid hake of the genus Urophycis, found in the northwest Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Newfoundland, at depths of about 1,000 metres.

Codlet

Whiting - Until the later twentieth century, whiting was a cheap fish, regarded as food for the poor or for pets, but the general decline in fish stocks means that it is now more highly valued.

Beard

Silvery cod

Couch's whiting - Exploitation of blue whiting only started in the 1970s.

Saithe - Pollachius virens is a species of marine fish in the Pollachius genus.

Rockling

Patagonian grenadier

Mediterranean rockling - The Shore Rockling is often confused with the five-bearded rockling and also the larger three-bearded rockling , due to their similar colourings, shape and habitat.

Black hake - The white hake or mud hake, Urophycis tenuis, is a phycid hake of the genus Urophycis, found in the northwest Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Newfoundland, at depths of about 1,000 metres.

Pacific tomcod

South Pacific hake

Arbroath smokie - The haddock is easily recognized by a black lateral line running along its white side and a distinctive dark blotch above the pectoral fin, often described as a "thumbprint" or even the "Devil's thumbprint" or "St.

Polar cod - The polar cod has a slender body, deeply forked tail, projecting mouth and a small whisker on its chin.

Pacific cod

Lesser fork-beard

Norway pout

Tadpole codling

Order Gonorynchiformes

Sandfish

Order Heterodontiformes

Port Jackson shark - The Port Jackson shark is a migratory species, traveling south in the summer and returning north to breed in the winter months.

Order Lamniformes

Crocodile shark - The crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai, is a species of shark and the only member of the family Pseudocarchariidae.

Hoe-mother - This shark is called the basking shark because it is most often observed when feeding at the surface and appears to be basking in the warmer water there.

Great white shark - The best selling novel Jaws and the subsequent film by Steven Spielberg provided the great white shark with the image of a "man eater" in the public mind.

Megamouth shark - The appearance of the megamouth is distinctive, but little else is known about it.

Porbeagle - Adult salmon sharks are medium grey to black over most of the body, with a white underside with darker blotches.

Beaumaris shark - The porbeagle is a species of mackerel shark in the family Lamnidae, distributed widely in the cold and temperate marine waters of the North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere.

Order Lampriformes

King of herrings

Pacific king-of-salmon - King-of-the-salmon, Trachipterus altivelis, is a species of ribbonfish in the family Trachipteridae.

Whiptail ribbonfish

Crested oarfish

Tapertail ribbonfish

Southern ribbonfish

Order Lophiiformes

American angler - The American anglerfish is unique in its appearance and has no relatives with which it can be confused in the areas where it is caught.

Haplophryne mollis - Some anglerfishes of the superfamily Ceratioidei employ an unusual mating method.

Order Mugiliformes

Striped mullet

Order Myctophiformes

Protomyctophum gemmatum

Popeye lampfish

Lanternfish

Topside lampfish

Lanternfish

Gymnoscopelus hintonoides

Andersen's lantern fish

Lantern fish

Lanternfish

Electrona antarctica

Lanternfish

Spiny lantern fish

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Diogenichthys panurgus

Hector's lanternfish - It is a widespread marine fish, known from shallow tropical waters in the south-eastern Atlantic, from the western Pacific off Australia and New Zealand, and from the eastern Pacific off Chile.

Myctophum fissunovi

Large scale lantern fish

Highseas lampfish

Diaphus nielseni

Taaning's lantern fish

Diaphus jenseni

Protomyctophum parallelum

Gymnoscopelus opisthopterus

Short-headed lantern fish

Spinycheek lanternfish

Protomyctophum bolini

Lanternfish

Lampanyctus turneri

Nannobrachium cuprarium

Gymnoscopelus braueri

Chubby flashlightfish

Laura's lantern fish

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Spotted laternfish

Cocco's lantern fish

Transparent lantern fish

Lanternfish

Gonichthys barnesi

Mead's lanternfish

Krefftichthys anderssoni

Barnards lanternfishes - Symbolophorus barnardi is a lanternfish in the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in the southern hemisphere between about 30° S and 11° S at depths of between 100 and 800 m.

Fragile lantern fish

Protomyctophum luciferum

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Gymnoscopelus microlampas

Diaphus antonbruuni

Reinhardt's lantern fish

Protomyctophum andriashevi

Horned lanternfish

Electron subantarctic

Longfin lampfish

Lantern fish

Diaphus richardsoni

Lanternfish

Southern lanternfish

Lantern fish

Symbolophorus rufinus

Metelectrona herwigi

Diaphus ostenfeldi

Diaphus thiollierei

Diaphus lucidus

Lanternfish

Lanternfish - Gymnoscopelus piabilis is a lanternfish in the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in the southern hemisphere between about 46° S and 52° S, at depths of below 100 at night.

Diaphus diadematus

Lanternfish

Smallfin lanternfish

Gymnoscopelus fraseri

Diaphus aliciae

Lanternfish

Lampanyctus vadulus

Nannobrachium isaacsi

Lanternfish

Pig-headed lantern fish

Rakery beaconlamp

Wisner's lantern fish

Bolin's lantern fish

Lampadena dea

Longfin lanternfish

Lampadena urophaos atlantica

Golden lanternfish

Taaningichthys minimus

Lanternfish

Pacific blackchin

Evermann's lantern fish

Hintonia candens

Diaphus subtilis

Lobisomem

Hudson's lanternfish

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Arctic telescope

Warming's lantern fish - Warming's lantern fish, Ceratoscopelus warmingii, is a lanternfish of the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in both hemispheres, at depths of between 700 and 1,500 m during the day and between 20 and 200 m at night.

Electrona paucirastra - Electrona paucirastra is a lanternfish in the family Myctophidae, found around the globe in the southern hemisphere between 35° S and 48° S.

Lampanyctus tenuiformis

Lanternfish

Gymnoscopelus bolini

Benoit's lanternfish

Lanternfish

Mirror lanterfish

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Lanternfish

Doflein's false headlightfish

Metelectrona ventralis

Diaphus parri

Diaphus vanhoeffeni

Diaphus malayanus

Lantern fish

Order Ophidiiformes

Pink ling - Other names in English include ling, Australian rockling, kingclip, pink ling, and northern ling.

Order Osmeriformes

Javelin spookfish - The species is notable for unusual protuberances that grow from its eyes, which each have "a well developed lens"

Order Perciformes

R - The slender suckerfish or lousefish, Phtheirichthys lineatus, is a rare species of remora, family Echeneidae, and the only member of the genus Phtheirichthys.

Blue-fin tuna

Queensland school mackerel - The Queensland school mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

Wrought iron butterflyfish

Stereolepis doederleini

Purple snake mackerel

Grass goby

Mantasucker - The white suckerfish or mantasucker, Remorina albescens, is a species of remora in the family Echeneidae, a group of elongate marine fish with adhesive discs for attaching to larger organisms.

Korean seerfish

Picnic seabream

Black seabass - It inhabits the coasts from Maine to NE Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Atlantic shadefish - A.

Banded sillago - The western school whiting is one of 29 species in the genus Sillago, which is one of three divisions of the smelt whiting family Sillaginidae.

John's snapper

Shark mackerel

Atlantic white marlin - Average size is 45 to 65 lbs , with females reaching relatively larger sizes.

Stripped weakfish

Broad-bill sword-fish - They are the sole member of their family Xiphiidae.

Bonito

Freckled goatfish

Transparent goby

Salema - Sarpa salpa, also known as the Salema porgy, is a species of bream, recognisable by the golden stripes that run down the length of its body, and which can cause hallucinations when eaten.

Brownback trevally - The brownback trevally is classified within the genus Carangoides, one of a number of groups of fish referred to as jacks and trevallies.

Red seabream

Black pomfret

Ambon damsel - Pomacentrus amboinensis is a Damselfish from the Western Pacific.

Rock porgy

Banded drum - Their teeth are rounded and they have powerful jaws capable of crushing oysters and other shellfish.

Nassau grouper - The Nassau grouper is a U.

Largescale blackfish

Catfish - The bottom-dwelling spotted wolffish is found across the North Atlantic from north of Russia to the Scotian Shelf, off Nova Scotia.

Littlehead porgy

Longfin escolar - It is placed in its own family Scombrolabracidae, but the family's placement in the suborders of Perciformes has included Scombroidei, Percoidei, and Trichiuiroidei, while some authors place it in its own suborder Scombrolabracoidei.

Marbled rockcod - The marbled rockcod, Notothenia rossii, is a marine cod icefish in the family Nototheniidae with distribution ranging from southern New Zealand to sub-Antarctic seas, on rocky reefs.

Pacific sand lance

Great sandeel - Breeding occurs through between March into August.

Red rover

Escolar - The snake mackerel, Gempylus serpens, is a species of fish in the monotypic genus Gempylus, belonging to the family Gempylidae .

Goldlined seabream

Japanese Spanish mackerel

Spot croaker - Their diet consists largely of organic detritus, small crustaceans, and worms.

Porgy - Scup grow as large as 18 in and weigh 3 to 4 lb , but they average 1/2 - 1 lb .

Brazilian flathead

Bluefin - The southern bluefin tuna is a large, streamlined, fast swimming fish with a long, slender caudal peduncle and relatively short dorsal, pectoral and anal fins.

Roundscale spearfish - A team of university and government scientists has confirmed the existence of the enigmatic billfish species closely resembling the heavily fished, overexploited white marlin.

Full moony

Ocean pout - Scientists have done studies wherein genes are taken from the ocean pout and implanted into salmon in an attempt to make the latter grow faster.

Grey marlinsucker - The spearfish remora, Remora brachyptera, is a remora of the family Echeneidae, found around the world in tropical and subtropical seas.

Spanish mackerel

Barracuda cardinalfish

Chicken grunt

Patagonian toothfish - A close relative, the Antarctic toothfish , is found farther south around the edges of the Antarctic shelf; it also lives in the Ross Sea.

Five finger - The Indo-Pacific sergeant is found from the Red Sea to South Africa, as far as Southeast Australia and South Japan.

Japanese amberjack - It is greatly appreciated in Japan, where it is called hamachi or buri.

Bigeye squaretail

Bluefish - In South Africa, this fish is commonly known as shad on the east coast, and elf on the west coast.

Indian mackerel

Mild meagre

Pelagic butterfish - The pelagic butterfish, Schedophilus maculatus, is a medusafish of the genus Schedophilus found in all warm oceans.

Cocinero - The cocinero is classified within the genus Caranx, one of a number of groups known as the jacks or trevallies.

Axillary seabream

Butterflyfish

Atlantic wreckfish - Atlantic wreckfish are deep-water fish and can be found on the ocean bottom at depths between 40 and 600 m , where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks .

Pacific fanfish

European seabass - The European seabass is a member of the Moronidae family.

Island trevally - The island trevally is classified within the genus Carangoides, a group of fish commonly called jacks and trevallies.

Pompano dolphinfish - Pompano dolphinfish have a lifespan of 3 to 4 years.

Deady

Silver driftfish

Australian bonito - The Australian bonito, horse mackerel or little bonito, Sarda australis, a fish of the family Scombridae, is found around eastern Australia and New Zealand in depths to about 30 m , in open water.

Leerfish

Japanese jack mackerel

Snake mackerel - It can grow up to 200 cm long and weigh as much as 6 kg .

Vachelli's glass perchlet

Painted mackerel - The Cero reaches larger sizes than the Spanish, often 10 lb or more, but those over 30 lb are extremely rare.

Papuan seerfish

Croceine croaker

Escolar

Croaker

Longfinned albacore - It is found in the open waters of all tropical and temperate oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Gag grouper - Ten- to twenty-pound fish are common.

White stumpnose

Indian ariomma

Spotstripe snapper

Bonito - Dogtooth tuna frequent reef environments, with smaller fish being more commonly found near shallow reef areas and larger ones haunting deep reef drop off areas, seamounts and steep underwater walls.

Japanese spearfish - The shortbill spearfish, Tetrapturus angustirostris, is a species of marlin found in Indo-Pacific oceans not far from the surface.

Japanese scad

Seatrout

Sharpsnout seabream

Australian tuna

Nagasaki damsel

Whitemouth jack

Bar jack - The bar jack is classified within the genus Carangoides, a group of fishes commonly known as jacks and trevallies, which is part of the larger jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae.

Chinese pomfret - Silver Pomfret are usually silver/white in color, with few small scales.

Angel - The big-scale pomfret, Taractichthys longipinnis, is a pomfret of the family Bramidae, found in the Atlantic ocean, at depths down to 500 m.

Bonito

Coral dragonet - The lancer dragonet is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Callionymus.

Castor oil fish - The flesh is very oily and although edible, the oil actually consists of wax esters, which are not digested like traditional oil.

Lesser bream

Saddled seabream

Southern kingcroaker

Big head croaker

Arctic bonito - It is a streamlined, fast-swimming pelagic fish, common in tropical waters throughout the world, where it inhabits surface waters in large shoals , feeding on fish, crustaceans, cephalopods and mollusks.

Blue sea cat - This fish, sometimes considered "charmingly ugly"1 is found across the North Atlantic Ocean from north of Russia to the Scotian Shelf, off Nova Scotia.

Ragfish - The southern driftfish or ragfish, Icichthys australis, is a medusafish of the genus Icichthys found around the world in all southern oceans between latitudes 50° S and 60° S, from the surface down to 2,000 m.

Slender tuna - The slender tuna, Allothunnus fallai, is a species of tuna, the only species in the genus Allothunnus, found around the world in the southern oceans between latitudes 20° and 50° South.

Kanadi kingfish - The Kanadi kingfish, Scomberomorus plurilineatus, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

Escolar

Atlantic spadefish - Due to their reputation as strong fighters, they are popular game fish, especially during the summer months when they are most active.

Chu's croaker

Daisy parrotfish

Striped poison fangblenny mimic

Big eye tunny - In Hawaiian, it is one of two species known as ‘ahi; the other is yellowfin tuna.

Atlantic longbill spearfish

Zoarces elongatus

Marlin sucker

Monterey Spanish mackerel

Black seabream - Black seabream are protogynous meaning females have the ability to change to males.

Dysalotus oligoscolus

Barracuda - The body is elongated and covered with small, scarcely visible scales; the back is an iridescent blue, while the sides are silvery, with a pattern of vertical blue bars.

Corvina

Stout sillago - The stout whiting is one of 29 species in the genus Sillago, which is one of three divisions of the smelt whiting family Sillaginidae.

Mangrove snapper - Coloration of the Mangrove Jack ranges from burnt orange, to copper, to bronze and dark reddish-brown, depending on its age and environment.

Squaretail - The smalleye squaretail, Tetragonurus cuvieri, is a squaretail of the genus Tetragonurus found in all tropical and temperate oceans of the world, at depths up to 800 m.

Mi-iuy croaker

Acoupa weakfish - The acoupa weakfish, Cynoscion acoupa, is a croaker of the family Sciaenidae, found in the western Atlantic from Panama to Argentina, at depths down to 20 m.

Freckled goby

Indian mackerel - The Indian mackerel is found in warm shallow waters along the coasts of the Indian and Western Pacific oceans.

Japanese meagre - Argyrosomus japonicus is a fish of the Sciaenidae family.

Black king fish - Attaining a maximum length of 2 metres and maximum weight of 68 kilograms , cobia have elongate fusiform bodies and broad, flattened heads.

Threadfin jack - The threadfin jack is classified within the genus Carangoides, one of a number of groups of fish referred to as jacks and trevallies.

Atlantic tripletail - The Atlantic tripletail is the only fish in the Lobotidae family that can be found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Bluespotted seabream

Common dolphinfish - Although its common name is "dolphin-fish", the mahi-mahi is a fish not a dolphin, and is not at all related to the Delphinidae family of mammals whose common name is simply dolphin.

Seventy-four seabream

Argentine croaker

Inca scad

Brassy chub

Mexican bonito

Spotlined bass

Camouflage grouper - The camouflage grouper is a species of fish in the Serranidae family.

Deep-bodied mojarra

Florida pompano - The Florida pompano is a fast growing species and attains a length of approximately 8 inches after its first year, surviving for only about 3 to 4 years .

Atlantic sailfish - Tests in the 1920s estimated that they were capable of short sprints of up to 111 kilometres per hour, however, a more conservative estimates of 37 to 55 kilometres per hour are more widely accepted .

Broad-barred king mackerel - The Broadbarred king mackerel, Scomberomorus semifasciatus, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

Australian spotted mackerel - The Australian spotted mackerel, Scomberomorus munroi, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

Yellow croaker

Smalleye stardrum

Pacific black marlin - In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the black marlin to its seafood red list.

American butterfish - Fish of this species are usually deep-bodied, flattened sideways and somewhat circular or rounded, with blunt noses and small mouths with weak teeth.

Allison's tuna - The yellowfin tuna is often marketed as ahi tuna, from its Hawaiian name ʻahi although the name ʻahi in Hawaiian also refers to the closely related bigeye tuna.

Scamp grouper

Japanese butterfish

Cape stumpnose

John moriggle - Bonnetmouths are similar to the only other member of its family, the Boga, or Inermia vittata.

Bigscaled mackerel - The butterfly kingfish, bigscale mackerel, or butterfly mackerel, Gasterochisma melampus, the only species in the genus Gasterochisma, is found around the world in southern temperate waters, down to 200 m in open water.

Black swallower

Whale remora - The whalesucker, Remora australis, is a species of remora in the family Echeneidae, so named because it attaches itself exclusively to cetaceans.

Log - The king mackerel is a medium sized fish, typically encountered from 5-30 pounds, but is known to exceed 90 pounds.

Pacific barracuda

Luvar - It is a big ellipsoidal fish, growing to two meters in length.

Pacific striped marlin - In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the striped marlin to its seafood red list.

Large-eye dentex

Parablennius yatabei

Sickle pomfret

Whitemouth croaker

Smallspotted grunter

Coron meagre

New Zealand ruffe

Black jack fish - The black jack is classified within the genus Caranx, one of a number of groups known as the jacks or trevallies.

Hogfish

Grouper - Alternatively, the term "white grouper" is also used as a local vernacular name for several other species of fish, including the yellowedge grouper , Nassau grouper , and Venezuelan grouper .

Pacific pomfret

Gulf kingcroaker

Bighead croaker

Wolf-fish - In spite of its large size the Atlantic wolffish has retained the bodily form and general external characteristics of small blennies .

Blue driftfish

Sailor's grunt

Order Pleuronectiformes

English sole - English sole is an important commercial fish, primarily caught off Washington, Oregon and California.

Bastard halibut - It is often referred to as the Japanese flatfish or Korea flatfish when mentioned in the context of those countries.

Akagarei - The flathead flounder spawning season is from February to April, and spawning takes place at depths of 180 and 200 metres .

Ishigarei

California flounder - A top level predator that hunts by stealth, it is prized by fishermen as great table fare.

Lemon fish - It is a popular food fish.

Bering flounder - The Bering flounder, Hippoglossoides robustus, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.

Smallmouth flounder

European plaice - Plaice are determinate spawners in which fecundity is determined before the onset of spawning.

Butter sole - The butter sole is a right-eyed flounder with an oval-shaped body.

S

Greenland halibut - Its morphology with the left eye positioned on the dorsal ridge of the forehead gives it an appearance of a cyclops when looking straight at it.

Blackhand sole

Paralichthys orbignyanus

Xystreurys rasile

Cigarette paper - The flathead sole is a right-eyed flounder with an oval-shaped body.

Witch - The species lives on soft bottoms between 45 and 1460 m and prefers temperatures of 2–6 ºC.

Summer flounder - Occurring in the western Atlantic from Maine to South Carolina, possibly further south where the Summer Flounder may mix and be confused with its close relative the Southern Flounder which lacks the eye-like spots of the summer flounder.

Pacific halibut - Directed commercial fisheries usually use longline gear but halibut are also caught along with many other bottom-dwelling fish by trawlers.

Flounder - The brill have slender bodies, brown with lighter and darker coloured flecks covering its body, excluding the tailfin; the underside of the fish is usually cream coloured or pinkish white.

Kaup's sole

American dab - American plaice may be an intermediate host for the nematode parasite Otostrongylus circumlitis, which is a lungworm of seals, primarily affecting animals less than 1 yr of age.

Winter flounder - The winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.

Fringed flounder

Blackfin flounder - The blackfin flounder's diet consists of benthos invertebrates such as crustaceans, molluscs and worms.

Order Rajiformes

Cowfish - The embryo grows within its mother with its wings folded over its body.

Giant devil ray - It is larger than the lesser devil ray, and it possesses a spiny tail.

Clear-nosed brier skate

Common skate

Prickly skate

Ocellate spot skate

Pacific cownose ray - The golden cownose ray, hawkray, or pacific cownose ray is a species of fish in the Rhinopteridae family.

Munk's devil ray - The manta de monk, Munk's devil ray, pygmy devil ray, or smoothtail mobula is a species of fish in the Mobulidae family.

Mottled skate - Raja is a genus of skates in the family Rajidae.

Freckled skate

Fanray - Platyrhina species have rounded heart-shaped pectoral fin discs with short, blunt snouts.

Brazilian guitarfish - The Brazilian guitarfish is a species of fish in the Rhinobatidae family.

Giant manta - Mantas have a variety of common names, including Atlantic manta, Pacific manta, devilfish, and just manta.

Maiden ray - The length of its body and tail is generally slightly less than 1 meter and width is about half a meter.

Chilean devil ray

Barn-door skate - After peaking in the 1950s, the population of the barndoor skate dramatically declined in the 1970s as a result of overfishing and is now listed as endangered by the World Conservation Union.

Winter big skate

Order Scorpaeniformes

Furcina osimae

Goldeye rockfish

Tanaka's snailfish

Bartailed flathead - The bartail flathead , also called Bar-Tailed Flathead, Bartail Blenny, Gobi, Indian Flathead, or Indo-Pacific Flathead, is the type species for the Platycephalus genus of fish.

Fat greenling

Sebastes vulpes

Blue cod - The sable fish is found in muddy sea beds in the North Pacific at depths of 300 to 2,700 m and is commercially important to Japan.

Deepwater rockfish - S.

Podothecus sturioides

Perch

Blue cod - It is native to the North American west coast from Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.

Red-whiskered bulbul

Lumpsucker - Lumpsuckers or lumpfish are mostly small scorpaeniform marine fish of the family Cyclopteridae.

Filefish

Hexagrammos agrammus

Atka mackerel - The primary population of the fish is found off of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Order Siluriformes

White sea catfish

Genidens planifrons

Order Squaliformes

Whitetail dogfish - The whitetail dogfish is a rare species known only from a few specimens taken by tuna longliners and trawlers.

Spined pygmy shark - The spined pygmy shark, Squaliolus laticaudus, is a species of dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae found widely in all oceans.

Slender lantern shark - The smooth lanternshark or slender lanternshark, Etmopterus pusillus, is a species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae, found widely in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Cigar shark - The cookiecutter shark , also called the cigar shark, is a species of small dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae.

Order Stomiiformes

Margrethia valentinae

Snaggletooth

Snaggletooth

Benttooth bristlemouth

Highlight hatchetfish

Pacific hatchet fish

Triplophos hemingi

Astronesthes lupina

Eustomias curtifilis

Stareye lightfish - The stareye lightfish is a species in the monotypic genus of Pollichthys.

Order Syngnathiformes

Cosmocampus retropinnis

Seaweed pipefish

Barbed pipefish

Order Tetraodontiformes

Thamnaconus modestus

Diamondback puffer

Whitespotted pygmy filefish

Thread-sail filefish

Hairfinned leatherjacket - Paramonacanthus japonicus is a Filefish from the Indo-West Pacific.

Redtoothed triggerfish - The redtoothed triggerfish is a dark blue bodied fish, ranging up to 50 cm in length.

Masked triggerfish

Order Zeiformes

Spiky oreo - The spiky oreo, Neocyttus rhomboidalis, is an oreo of the genus Neocyttus, found in all southern oceans at depths of between 200 and 1,300 m.

Black oreo - The black oreo is very similar in shape to the warty oreo.

Smooth oreo - The smooth oreo or smooth dory, Pseudocyttus maculatus, is an oreo, the only species in the genus Pseudocyttus.

Oxeye oreo

European john dory - In New Zealand, Māori know it as kuparu, and on the East Coast of the North Island, they gave some to Captain James Cook on his first voyage to New Zealand in 1769.