Sailfish

Fish > Billfishes & Istiophoriformes

The Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus), celebrated across marine biology and big-game angling as the fastest and most magnificent apex sprinter in the world’s oceans, is an immense, streamlined pelagic billfish belonging to the family Istiophoridae. Inhabiting...

Giant Moray

Fish > Eels & Anguilliformes

The Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) is an immense, heavy-bodied apex marine predator belonging to the true moray family Muraenidae, widely distributed throughout the tropical coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific. Standing as the largest of all moray eels by body mass...

Coho Salmon

Fish > Salmonids & Salmoniformes

The Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), celebrated across indigenous Pacific cultures and commercial fisheries as the ‘silver salmon’, is a magnificent, anadromous ray-finned teleost belonging to the salmon family Salmonidae, native to the coastal...

Goblin Shark

Fish > Mackerel Sharks

The Goblin Shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is an extraordinary, grotesque, and enigmatic deep-sea lamniform shark that stands as the sole surviving member of the ancient prehistoric family Mitsukurinidae, whose fossil lineage extends back 125 million years to the Early...

Regal Blue Tang

Fish > Surgeonfishes

The Regal Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus), celebrated globally in popular culture and marine biology as the palette surgeonfish or blue tang, is a vibrant, laterally compressed marine reef teleost that stands as the sole representative of the genus Paracanthurus...

Goliath Tigerfish

Fish > Characiforms

The Goliath Tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath), known natively across the Congo Basin as ‘mbenga’, is an immense, apex predatory freshwater teleost belonging to the African tigerfish family Alestidae. Inhabiting the deep, raging torrents and cataract river...

Largetooth Sawfish

Fish > Sawfishes & Rays

The Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis, historically also classified as Pristis microdon and Pristis perotteti) is an immense, heavily armored elasmobranch belonging to the sawfish family Pristidae. Despite its shark-like body and upright dorsal fins, it is...

Red-Bellied Piranha

Fish > Characins & Piranhas

The Red-Bellied Piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri) is an iconic, laterally compressed freshwater characin belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, native to the sprawling river basins of South America. Widely recognized by its glittering silver-gray body speckled with...

Greenland Shark

Fish > Sleeper Sharks

The Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus), also known in circumpolar lore as the gurry shark or grey shark, is a massive, slow-moving cartilaginous apex predator belonging to the sleeper shark family Somniosidae. Inhabiting the perpetual darkness of subzero Arctic...

Spot-Fin Porcupinefish

Fish > Pufferfishes & Porcupinefishes

The Spot-Fin Porcupinefish (Diodon hystrix) is the largest species of porcupinefish in the world, belonging to the family Diodontidae within the order Tetraodontiformes. Ubiquitous across the warm tropical and subtropical coral reefs of the globe, this heavily armored...