Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches
The Longnose Sucker (Catostomus catostomus) is an ultra cold-hardy, northern freshwater fish renowned as the only species in the sucker family (Catostomidae) native to both North America and the Asian continent. Thriving in icy, glacier-fed streams across the Arctic...
Fish > Suckerfishes & Loaches
The Desert Sucker (Catostomus clarkii) is a hardy, streamlined freshwater fish specially adapted to the torrential currents and dynamic flash floods of desert canyon streams throughout the American Southwest. Equipped with thick, fleshy lips armed with specialized,...
Fish > Squatinidae & Angelsharks
The Angelshark (Squatina squatina), historically known as the monkfish, is a remarkably specialized benthic elasmobranch that bridges the anatomical appearance of sharks and rays. Possessing a wide, dorsoventrally compressed body with broad pectoral fins that resemble...
Fish > Saccopharyngidae & Gulper Eels
The Whiptail Gulper (Saccopharynx ampullaceus) is one of the most astonishing deep-sea predatory fishes of the midnight zone. Reaching lengths exceeding five feet, this bizarre bathypelagic anguilliform inhabits the pitch-black waters of the North Atlantic at depths...
Fish > Ophidiidae & Cusk-eels
The Bony-eared Assfish (Acanthonus armatus) is one of the most anatomically unusual teleost fishes known to marine science. Native to the pitch-black abyssal plains and deep trench slopes thousands of meters beneath tropical and warm-temperate seas, this extraordinary...
