Fish > Sharks & Rays
The Spotted Wobbegong (Orectolobus maculatus) is an iconic, heavily built benthic carpet shark belonging to the family Orectolobidae, strictly endemic to the temperate and subtropical coastal marine waters of southern and eastern Australia. The name...
Fish > Eels
The Snowflake Moray (Echidna nebulosa), also widely celebrated in marine biology and the public aquarium world as the Clouded Moray or Starry Eel, is an extraordinarily attractive, medium-sized marine anguilliform fish belonging to the moray eel family Muraenidae....
Fish > Catfishes
The Electric Catfish (Malapterurus electricus) is a formidable, heavy-bodied freshwater siluriform fish belonging to the family Malapteruridae, indigenous to the great river basins and lakes of Central and West Africa, including the Nile, Congo, and Niger rivers....
Fish > Eels
The Ribbon Eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita), also celebrated worldwide as the Ribbon Moray or Leaf-nosed Moray Eel, is an extraordinarily striking, highly specialized marine anguilliform fish belonging to the family Muraenidae. Occupying its own monotypic genus...
Fish > Catfishes
The Goonch (Bagarius yarrelli), universally known across the Indian subcontinent as the Giant Devil Catfish, is an immense, prehistoric-looking predatory freshwater siluriform belonging to the Asian torrent catfish family Sisoridae. Indigenous to the roaring, snow-fed...
Fish > Catfishes
The Mekong Giant Catfish (Pangasianodon gigas), revered across Southeast Asia as the Pla Buek in Thailand and Pa Beuk in Laos, is a colossal, legendary freshwater teleost fish belonging to the family Pangasiidae. Recognized as one of the largest strictly freshwater...
Fish > Catfishes
The Piraíba (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum), celebrated across South America as the ‘Goliath of the Amazon’ and known in Spanish-speaking nations as the valentón or lechero, is the undisputed titan of Neotropical freshwater catfishes and one of the largest...
Fish > Gars
The Florida Gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) is an ancient, primitive freshwater fish belonging to the family Lepisosteidae, representing an iconic surviving member of the Holostei—an archaic ray-finned fish lineage whose fossil record dates back more than 100 million...
Fish > Gars
The Shortnose Gar (Lepisosteus platostomus) is a fascinating, ancient predatory fish and a true ‘living fossil’ belonging to the archaic family Lepisosteidae. Native to the meandering river channels, oxbow lakes, and tranquil backwaters of the Mississippi...
Fish > Catfishes
The Tiger Shovelnose Catfish (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum), celebrated in South America as the surubí or barrado, is one of the most magnificent, commercially vital, and visually arresting giant pimelodid catfishes on Earth. Native to the vast, murky river networks of...
