Fish > Antennariids & Lophiiformes
The Giant Frogfish (Antennarius commerson), commonly known as Commerson’s frogfish, is an imposing, heavily disguised benthic predator belonging to the frogfish family Antennariidae. Indigenous to the warm tropical coral reefs and sponge walls of the vast...
Fish > Anarhichadids & Perciformes
The Atlantic Wolffish (Anarhichas lupus), famously known as the seawolf or ocean catfish, is a formidable, bottom-dwelling marine teleost belonging to the wolffish family Anarhichadidae. Inhabiting the icy, sunless seafloors and rocky labyrinth reefs of the North...
Fish > Stomiids & Stomiiformes
Sloane’s Viperfish (Chauliodus sloani), celebrated across deep-sea marine biology as the quintessential nightmare predator of the oceanic abyss, is a terrifying dragonfish belonging to the family Stomiidae. Inhabiting the perpetual, freezing darkness of the deep...
Fish > Tetraodontids & Tetraodontiformes
The White-Spotted Pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus), celebrated across ethology and marine science as nature’s greatest underwater architect, is a small, brownish-white pufferfish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. Discovered by oceanographers in 2014...
Fish > Syngnathids & Syngnathiformes
Bargibant’s Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), celebrated across marine biology and underwater photography as the holy grail of marine camouflage, is a miniature, jewel-like syngnathid fish belonging to the seahorse family Syngnathidae. Discovered entirely...
Fish > Polyodontids & Acipenseriformes
The American Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), celebrated across evolutionary biology as the sole surviving member of the ancient paddlefish family Polyodontidae following the tragic extinction of China’s Yangtze paddlefish, is a colossal primitive freshwater fish...
Fish > Chlamydoselachids & Hexanchiformes
The Frilled Shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), celebrated across paleontology and ichthyology as one of the most remarkable ‘living fossils’ on planet Earth, is an ancient, primitive deep-sea elasmobranch belonging to the order Hexanchiformes. Tracing an...
Fish > Catfishes & Siluriformes
The Wels Catfish (Silurus glanis), revered across European angling and freshwater ichthyology as the colossal ‘beast of the river’, is an immense, predatory ray-finned teleost belonging to the sheatfish family Siluridae. Standing as the largest native...
Fish > Requiem Sharks & Carcharhiniformes
The Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas), widely renowned across elasmobranch physiology as one of the most astonishingly adaptable predators on the planet, is an immense, heavy-bodied requiem shark belonging to the family Carcharhinidae. Distributed throughout the warm...
Fish > Barracudas & Sphyraenidae
The Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), recognized across marine biology and recreational diving as the consummate torpedo-shaped hunter of the tropical reef, is an immense, predatory ray-finned teleost belonging to the barracuda family Sphyraenidae. Inhabiting the...
