Shane Roberts Fish ID Research Project

SHANE ROBERTS

Title: Marine Fish Species #: 1

Common Name: Great White Shark

Scientific Name: Carcharodon carcharias

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata

Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Lamniformes

Family: Lamnidae

Geography / Habitat: Coastal waters with temperatures between 54 degrees and 75 degrees

Fahrenheit. Found mostly around California, Hawaii, Australia, and places around Asia.

Life Strategy: Great whites do not travel in schools and can be aggressive towards their

own kind. Also, they must move at all times to stay alive.

Food / Feed Strategy: Their feeding strategy is to swarm or stalk their prey and then they

attack. They mainly eat seals or sea lions but will also eat fish, whales, dolphins, birds, and

even humans.

Body Form or Style: Compressiform

Swim / Locomotion Style: Thunniform

Mouth Position: Terminal

Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark

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Common Name: Tiger Shark

Scientific Name: Galeocerdo Cuvier


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Carcharhiniformes

Family: Carcharhinidae

Geography / Habitat: Found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters throughout the

world. It stays closer to the equator during the colder months and sleeps on the bottom

near reefs.

Life Strategy: Tiger sharks for the most part are not part of a school but can be. Also just

like the Great White Shark it must keep swimming constantly or it will die of suffocation.

Food / Feed Strategy: Tiger sharks are known as the garbage cans of the ocean b/c they will

eat just about anything such as a goat. It will eat fish, seals, bird, humans, but will also eat

garbage found along the ocean floor. It is also known for its multiple rows of razor sharp

teeth that are used to rip and shred the flesh of animals.




Citation:http://www.google.com/search?q=tiger+shark&hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4T

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Common Name: Bull Shark

Scientific Name: Carcharhinus leucas

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate



Geography / Habitat: These sharks are found in coastal water and freshwater and

saltwater lakes. They can also be found in streams if it is deep enough. They are mainly

found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Life Strategy: Bull sharks do not tend to travel in schools of sharks but can sometimes.

These sharks reproduce in rivers then travel back to the oceans, such as salmon and trout.

Food / Feed Strategy: Bull sharks generally hunt by themselves but can hunt in pairs as

well. They stalk their prey just like most sharks and other predator fish. They will eat fish,

other sharks, mammals, humans, and will also eat trash like the blue shark.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark

Title: Nurse Shark Species #: 4

Common Name: Nurse Shark

Scientific Name: Ginglymostoma cirratum


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Orectolobiformes

Family: Ginglymostomatidae

Geography / Habitat: This is an inshore bottom-dwelling shark and is found in tropical

and sub-tropical waters. It is mainly found in reefs, islands, and sand flats. They are mainly

found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Life Strategy: Nurse Sharks are nocturnal animals and spend the day of inactive groups of

around 40 individuals.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish eat crustaceans, mollusks, and fish such as stingrays. They

are bottom dwellers so the suck up their food with their mouths.



Mouth Position: Subterminal

Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_shark


Common Name: Black Tip Shark

Scientific Name: Carcharhinus limbatus




Geography / Habitat: The black tip shark is found all around the world except for in the

Arctic Ocean. Mainly found in less than 30 meters on continental shelves. Their favorite

habitats are muddy bays, island lagoons, and drop offs near reefs.

Life Strategy: These sharks are found mainly in groups. They are a very fast and energetic

predator. Just like most sharks they also have to constantly swim to stay alive. These fish

have been known to jump out of the water and spin three to four times much like the

spinner shark.

Food / Feed Strategy: Fish make up 90% of the black tip’s diet. This includes a wide

variety of fish. They are also known to eat other smaller sharks. Since the sharks are highly

excited and sociable fish they are known to take part in in a large amount of feeding

frenzies.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktip_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktip_shark


Common Name: Caribbean Reef Shark

Scientific Name: Carcharhinius perezi




Geography / Habitat: The Caribbean reef shark occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from North

Carolina all the way to South America. They also patrol the Gulf of Mexico. They prefer

Life Strategy: They prefer shallow waters near the coral reefs and they are commonly

found near the drop offs at the reefs outer edges. They tend to stay at about 30 meters deep

but can dive to around 350 meters if needed.

Food / Feed Strategy: These sharks mainly eat bony fish but will also eat rays. They are

attracted to the sounds of struggling fish which means an easy catch. Their young feed on

small fish, shrimp, and crabs.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_reef_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_reef_shark


Common Name: Sawshark

Scientific Name: Pristiophorus cirratus


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Pristiophoriformes

Family: Pristiophoridae

Geography / Habitat: These sharks are found in estuaries and shallow bays. They live in

temperate to tropical zones. They are found mainly in the Atlantic Ocean but can also be

found in the Pacific Ocean

Life Strategy: These fish do not travel in schools. They have “teeth” on the sides of their

snout that are used for protection and for hunting their prey. They also have a good

camouflage pattern on their bodies. Also they are skinny so they can hide under the sand.

Food / Feed Strategy: These sharks eat small fish, crustaceans, and squid. They have

sensors on the underside of the saw that are used to detect prey that is buried under the

sand. The shark uses the saw to uncover and disable the prey which they then suck into

their tiny mouths.




Citation: http://www.sharksavers.org/en/education/biology/different-types-of-sharks/saw-

sharks/


Common Name: Whale Shark

Scientific Name: Rhincodon typus


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Orectolobiformes

Family: Rhincodontidae

Geography / Habitat: These beasts inhabit all seas around the world and are like a whale

when it comes to inhabiting deep water. They are Asian and are mainly found near China,

Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Life Strategy: These sharks tend to stay in groups of around three or four. They must also

constantly swim to survive.

Food / Feed Strategy: These sharks are filter feeders and rely on eating mostly algae, krill,

small fish, and crab. They hunt by swimming into huge swarms of krill and just sucking

them in like a vacuum.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark


Common Name: Blue Shark

Scientific Name: Prionace glauca




Geography / Habitat: These sharks are found worldwide in all oceans of the world. They

are found in deep temperate and tropical waters. It tends to stay in the great depths of the

water.

Life Strategy: These sharks generally are not too aggressive. There have only being 13

attacks and 4 fatalities as of 2009. Just like most sharks they must also keep swimming to

stay alive.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish eat squid, octopi, crustaceans, small fish including sharks,

and the occasional sea bird.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_shark

Title: Marine fish Species #: 10

Common Name: Hammerhead Shark

Scientific Name: Sphyrna



Family: Sphyrnidae

Geography / Habitat: These sharks tend to stay coastal but stay at the coasts all across the

world. They are found in warmer waters on continental shelves.

Life Strategy: These fish also must keep swimming to stay alive. They can be found in

groups together during a feeding frenzy. These animals can be very aggressive when it

comes to their food and territory. The also use their hammer-shaped head for a defense

mechanism to hit potential threats.

Food / Feed Strategy: These sharks mainly eat fish and crustaceans but have been known

to eat people as well. As I said before they are quite aggressive so they launch towards their

prey and rip them apart.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_shark


Common Name: Thresher Shark

Scientific Name: Alopius macrourus


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Lamniformes

Family: Alopiidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can occasionally be found in shallow waters but the

mainly prefer the open ocean. However they tend to not venture off to more than 1,600 feet

of water. These sharks tend to stay in the Pacific between America and Japan and also the

Gulf of Mexico. They also prefer warmer waters.

Life Strategy: These sharks must also remain swimming to survive. These sharks can

become aggressive at certain times. These fish tend to stay solitary. They also have a large

tail which can be used to attract mates and warn off larger predators.

Food / Feed Strategy: They eat fish and crustaceans. They can also jump out of the water

much like a Great White to catch top water fish and birds.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thresher_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thresher_shark


Common Name: Lemon Shark

Scientific Name: Negaprion brevirostris




Geography / Habitat: These sharks are mainly found in the tropical and subtropical waters

of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans of North and South America but can also be found on

the northwest coast of Africa. They tend to stay in warmer waters.

Life Strategy: These animals are also solitary. They are more of a gentle shark until you

corner them up. They have electroreceptors that pick up the electrical pulse emitted by

potential prey. These sharks tend to not bask which is when they leap out of the water to

catch prey much like the great white or the thresher sharks.

Food / Feed Strategy: These sharks like to scale the ocean floor so therefore a big part of

their diet is crustaceans and small fish. They can also be seen eating the occasional fish.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_shark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_shark


Common Name: Barracuda

Scientific Name:


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes

Family: Sphyraenidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found all across the world. They tend to stay in

deep water. They also prefer warmer climates of water.

Life Strategy: These fish are very aggressive. They do not have to stay swimming like a

shark to survive. These fish can even be dangerous to swimmers because they are fighters.

Food / Feed Strategy: They eat fish, crustaceans, and will even eat a human if there are

enough of them around. Barracudas are scavengers and can mistake a human for a large

predator and they will all swarm onto them and eat away much like a piranha.

Body Form or Style: Sagittiform

Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform


Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda


Common Name: Clown Fish

Scientific Name: Amphiprion ocellaris



Family: Pomicentridae

Geography / Habitat: The fish inhabit coral reefs throughout the world. They prefer

warmer waters. They live at the bottom of shallow seas in sheltered reefs and shallow

lagoons.

Life Strategy: These fish live in anemones. This is very special because an anemone can

sting you but the clownfish are not affected by it. This also keeps them away from danger.

They are not too aggressive but can be territorial.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish mainly eat small crustaceans, algae, and plankton. They

do not have strong teeth so they must eat soft material. These fish just suck in their food

like a baleen whale.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiprioninae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiprioninae


Common Name: Lionfish

Scientific Name: Pterois


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Scorpaeniformes

Family: Scorpaenidae

Geography / Habitat: This fish is native to the Indo-Pacific. This fish mainly stays in coral

reefs which can be a problem. When they stay in coral reefs they kill small reef fish that are

vital to the survival of the reefs since they are a predator fish. These fish also prefer warm

water temperatures.

Life Strategy: These fish are very well camouflaged which keeps them safe form predators

themselves. These fish also have poisonous spines on them that will keep most predators

away because of their color and the fact that they are deadly. These fish are usually solitary

animals.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat crustaceans and small fish. They hunt by stalking

their prey and becoming their friend. The out of nowhere they attack the prey with one

gulp.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterois

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterois


Common Name: Pufferfish

Scientific Name: Arothron hispidus

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordta

Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes

Family: Tetraodontidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found worldwide. They prefer to be in warmer

water temperatures. These fish are reef fish.

Life Strategy: These fish are quite gentle. They have a defense mechanism that allows them

to puff up when they get scared. When they puff up the normally have spikes on them.

These fish are generally solitary and don’t do well with others of their own kind.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish eat crustaceans because they have a beak so they can

crack a shell and will also eat small fish one bite at a time. They follow behind their prey

very slowly and at the last second launch at them.


Swim / Locomotion Style: Ostraciiform


Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraodontidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraodontidae


Common Name: Seahorse

Scientific Name: Hippocampus


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Syngnathiformes

Family: Syngnathidae

Geography / Habitat: These tiny fish are mainly found in shallow tropical and temperate

waters throughout the world. The prefer to live in a sheltered area such as sea grass,

estuaries, coral reefs, and mangroves.

Life Strategy: These animals do not swim very strong or fast at all. When storms come they

use their long tails to hold on to grass or seaweed so they won’t drift off. In seahorse

reproduction the male actually carries the babies until they are born and they even lay the

eggs.

Food / Feed Strategy: These funny looking animals mostly eat crustaceans that crawl along

the ocean floor. They have a good camouflage that helps them to ambush their prey when

they are not expecting them too.

Body Form or Style: Unknown

Swim / Locomotion Style: Unknown


Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse


Common Name: Atlantic Blue Marlin

Scientific Name: Makaira nigricans



Family: Istiophoridae

Geography / Habitat: This huge fish inhabits all of the Atlantic Ocean. It ranges from the

coast all the way to the middle of the ocean. It prefers tropical waters that are warmer than

others.

Life Strategy: Since the Atlantic can get extremely cold this fish must migrate into warmer

waters when the place where it is at gets cold. This fish has a long “sword” on the end of its

head which it uses for actual sword fights and for spearing prey. This fish is generally a

solitary animal.

Food / Feed Strategy: This fish mainly eats other smaller fish. However it can kill bigger

fish with its sword. They have also been known to kill people as well. This has occurred

when people are fishing for them. When they bring them up into the boats the fish goes

crazy and can accidentally spear the human.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_blue_marlin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_blue_marlin


Common Name: Swordfish

Scientific Name: Xiphias gladius



Family: Xiphiidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are found in tropical and temperate parts of the ocean.

They are native to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. These fish also have to migrate

because of them liking warm waters more.

Life Strategy: These fish also have the sword on their head to fight off enemies with. As I

said before they must migrate as well as the marlin because of their liking for warmer

waters.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish also eat other fish and also have the capability to attack or

accidentally injure other fish or humans. The reason that the swordfish and the marlin are

so much alike is because they are in the same family.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish


Common Name: Malabar Grouper

Scientific Name: Epinephelus malabaricus



Family: Serranidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found all over the world. They prefer to be in warm

waters. They are better if they are at the ocean floor instead of the top of the water.

Life Strategy: These fish are one of the largest fish in the world. One of the most common

fish that you will eat at a restaurant is grouper. These fish tend to stay solitary. They are

also very valuable to fishers.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other fish mostly for their meals. They are not fast

swimmers so they just swim up to their prey slowly and suck them in.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper


Common Name: Blue Spotted Sting Ray

Scientific Name: Neotrygon kuhlii


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Myliobatiformes

Family: Dasyatidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are mainly found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans near

Asia. They prefer slightly deep and slightly shallow waters. They can be found in coral

reefs and even buried under the sand on the ocean floor.

Life Strategy: These fish can sometimes be found in groups but most of the time they are

found solitary. These fish are hunted by humans and most fish for either trophies or food.

They have wing-like fins that allow them to glide across the ocean. They also have a

poisonous barb on their tail to use for protection.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other fish and crustaceans. They use their “wings”

to fly across the ocean really fast making a b-line for their prey. They then use their beeks

to grab onto their prey and swallow.

Body Form or Style: Depressiform



Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluespotted_stingray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluespotted_stingray


Common Name: Reef Manta Ray

Scientific Name: Manta alfredi


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Rajiformes

Family: Mobulidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are found widely in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. They prefer

tropical and subtropical waters

Life Strategy: These fish are HUGE!!!! They can have a wingspan of 10+ feet. They use this

to scare off enemies and to attract mates. They use their huge wings to glide gracefully

across the ocean.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish eat other fish and crustaceans. They swim up to them and

suck them in like a vacuum.

Body Form or Style: Depressiform



Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_Manta_Ray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_Manta_Ray


Common Name: Red Snapper

Scientific Name:



Family: Lutjanidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are mainly found in the gulf of mexico. They can also be

found rarely in other parts of the world. They also prefer warm temperate waters.

Life Strategy: This fish are mostly solitary but can sometimes be found in groups. They

have a bright red coloring on them that warns off predators and attracts mates at the same

time.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other fish and crustaceans. They can be fast so

tnhey will charge at their prey and suck them in like a vacuum, but they also have teeth so

they can tear the flesh.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_snapper_(fish)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_snapper_(fish)


Common Name: Blue Fin Tuna

Scientific Name: Thunnus orientalis

Kingdom:Animalia Phylum: Chordata


Family: Scombridae

Geography / Habitat: This fish mainly lives in the giant Pacific Ocean. This fish can deal

with colder temperatures very well because it can change its body temperature very

quickly.

Life Strategy: These fish are very big. They can stand up for themselves in a fight because

of this. They also have the spikes on their tails to warn enemies and to attract mates. These

fish are very common in the food market. Because they are so valuable to food they can run

up to around 80,000 dollars apiece. These fish also tend to stay in larges schools of their

species.

Food / Feed Strategy: This fish’s diet mainly consists of other fish that school together.

They can also eta a lot of it at one time of the day.

Body Form or Style: Fusiform



Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_bluefin_tuna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_bluefin_tuna


Common Name: Yellow Tang

Scientific Name:



Family: Acanthuridae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are commonly found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

west of Hawaii but East of Japan. These fish are commonly found in shallow reefs of the

coast. They prefer anywhere from 2-46 meters in depth of the waterso they will not get

crushed by the weight of the water itself

Life Strategy: These fish are very calm but can be aggressive if they are cornered up to

where they cannot defend themselves. These fish are also used for many aquariums because

of their beautiful coloration and their calmness towards others. These fish also like to saty

in decent size schools for protection.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish mainly eat algae even though they have a terminal mouth.

Even though that is what they eat in the wild, they eat meat and fish based food when they

are in the aquarium.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_tang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_tang


Common Name: Blue Tang

Scientific Name: Paracanthurus hepatus



Family: Acanthuridae

Geography / Habitat: These fish live in reefs throughout the world. They enjoy thriving in

warmer waters.

Life Strategy: These fish can travel in schools sometimes. They have a bright color pattern

to warn off enemies and attract mates. They can be aggressive at certain points.

Food / Feed Strategy: A young Blue Tangs diet consists of predominantly plankton. Adults,

however, are omnivores and feed on plankton as well as graze on algae.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracanthurus_hepatus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracanthurus_hepatus


Common Name: Sunfish

Scientific Name: Mola mola



Family: Molidae

Geography / Habitat: These odd fish are native to temperate and tropical waters. These

fish have been discovered in all oceans of the world. However, these fish are mainly found

in the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean

Life Strategy: These fish are pelagic which mean that they can reach depths of up to 600

meters. However, these fish mostly spend their time basking in the sun on the top of the

water. This could have something to do with their name.

Food / Feed Strategy: This fish’s diet consists of mostly jellyfish, but they will also eat salps,

squid, crustaceans, and eel grass.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish


Common Name: Needlefish

Scientific Name: Tylosurus crocodilus


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Beloniformes

Family: Belonidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are commonly found in the North Atlantic Ocean. They

are found in temperate waters and thrive in the deep waters.

Life Strategy: These fish can be found swimming alongside schools of mackerel. They have

a needle-like body that can be used for swimming very fast. They are very similar to the

well-known barracuda.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish have a long snout and very sharp, dagger-like teeth. In

this manner they resemble a gar even though one is freshwater and one is saltwater.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needlefish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needlefish


Common Name: Payara

Scientific Name: Hydrolycus scomberoides


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Characiformes

Family: Cynodontidae

Geography / Habitat: The payara is a tropical fish that is found off the coasts of South

America. They prefer warmer waters than not. They also prefer a lot of personal space.

Life Strategy: As I said before, they prefer a lot of personal space. This is because they are

very aggressive and territorial fish that will attack other animals that invades its personal

space.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other fish of any kind with in a smaller body size

than them. They will charge at their prey and slice their huge, jagged teeth into their body.




Citation: http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/predatory/payara.php

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/predatory/payara.php


Common Name: Oarfish

Scientific Name: Regalecidae


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Lampriformes

Family: Regalecidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are pelagic, which means that they stay in the top waters

of the deep part of the ocean. These fish can be found worldwide but are somewhat rare.

They prefer temperate tropical waters.

Life Strategy: These fish tend to stay by themselves. They can sometimes be aggressive but

not all the time.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will use their sharp teeth to eat other fish and sea animals

that surround their habitat. They can be known to turn an unwanted predator into a mid-

day snack.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish


Common Name: Anglerfish

Scientific Name:


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Melonocetidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found in most all oceans but are most well-known

for the fact that they live in the very bottom of the deepest points in the ocean. They prefer

cold-water.

Life Strategy: These fish can be quite aggressive, yet very calm and peaceful at the same

time. These fish live in the pitch black darkness so therefore they live alone.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat any other animal that lives on the bottom of the

ocean that is small enough. These fish hang a “bulb” over their heads that lights on and off.

This is used to attract mates and prey. They also have curved in teeth so when they bite

down on prey their teeth sink deeper into their body when the prey tries to struggle.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish


Common Name: Green Mandarin Goby

Scientific Name: Synchiropus splendidus



Family: Callionymidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish prefer very tropical waters. They love to stay in reefs

where they have stuff to hide in. They range in any ocean in the world except for the arctic.

They prefer to live in warmer waters.

Life Strategy: These fish participate in mutualism between a shrimp. They together live in

a burrow and the goby comes out and keeps watch while the shrimp looks for food in the

sand nearby.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat tiny crustaceans but will mostly eat water bugs or

algae. They do not tend to be very aggressive but will attack if needed.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarinfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarinfish


Common Name: California Batfish

Scientific Name: Myliobatis californica


Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Myliobatiformes

Family: Myliobatidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are found in warm waters in the Pacific Ocean off the

coast of California. They prefer to scale the sea floor in the coastal reefs.

Life Strategy: These fish are actually a type of ray so they glide with their “wings” instead

of using a tail to swim. They are generally a gentle fish.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other fish and tiny crustaceans. They will basically

just “fly” over them and suck them in like a vacuum.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_batfish

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Common Name: Sailfish

Scientific Name: Istiophorus




Geography / Habitat: These fish stay in the very deep waters with lots of room to roam.

They can be found all across the world. They prefer to stay in warmer waters.

Life Strategy: These fish are very athletic and fast. They are constantly swimming and

roaming around. They can be very aggressive sometimes by fighting with others of their

kind.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will swim into large schools of fish and spear them. They

will then slide them down their “sword” into their mouth.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish

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Common Name: Gulf Flounder

Scientific Name: Paralichthys albigutta


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Pleuronectiformes

Family: Paralichthyidae

Geography / Habitat: The fish are mainly found in the gulf coast. They prefer to stay on the

ocean floor in very muddy or sandy areas along the coast. They also prefer shallow waters.

Life Strategy: These fish are flat-bodied and have their eyes on the top of their head even

though that their mouth is on the bottom. This is so that they can hide in the sand and be

camouflaged but still be able to look up and keep watch for potential predators.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other small fish and also crustaceans such as crabs

and shrimp. They can be very aggressive when hunting. They stalk their prey and then at

the last second they launch towards it. You can sometimes see them spit the scales from

their prey out of their gills.




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Common Name: King Mackerel

Scientific Name: Scomberomorus cavalla



Family: Scombridae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found throughout the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf

of Mexico. They can range from warm waters to freeing cold waters. They are mainly

found swimming in the middle of the deep part of the ocean.

Life Strategy: These fish can be found in large schools of others of the same fish. Therefore

these fish are a dependent species of fish. They are very fast swimmers and resemble a kind

of tuna because of the spines on their tails.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish are not too aggressive. They will feed on small species of

fish, plankton, shrimp, other small species of crustaceans, and other small species of

marine life.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_mackerel

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Common Name: Black Seabass

Scientific Name: Centropristis striata



Family: Serranidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found in the Atlantic Ocean and throughout the

Gulf of Mexico. They prefer the safety and shelter of inshore reefs, this way they have a

completely safe community of other species of fish as well to live in. They also prefer to live

in warm waters but can be found in cold on some occasions.

Life Strategy: As I said before, these fish prefer to live in big communities on the reefs and

interact well with other species of fish, minus the fact that they eat the other species. The

can sometimes be found in schools but for the most part they are a solitary animal.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other fish and certain types of shrimp. They will

dart up to their prey, grab them, and then quickly swim away.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_sea_bass

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Common Name: Gulf Sturgeon

Scientific Name: Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Acipenseriformes

Family: Acipenseridae

Geography / Habitat: This fish can also be found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of

Mexico, but the thing that makes this fish different form the last two when it comes to their

habitat is that they can be found in salt and freshwater much like a trout or salmon.

Life Strategy: As I said before, these fish are salt and freshwater fish, so they have a wider

variety of mates and food. These fish are generally pretty big and can be quite aggressive.

They also have spines on their fins like a mackerel and a tuna.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat just about anything that comes into sight.

However, they mainly prefer just different types of smaller fish and they will also eat

reptiles such as a baby crocodile or a snake.




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Common Name: Yellowtail Snapper

Scientific Name: Ocyurus chrysurus



Family: Lutjanidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found throughout the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic

Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico. These fish are reef fish and prefer to be around other fish, even

if it isn’t of their own kind.

Life Strategy: These fish will sometimes travel in schools but most of the time they will

remain solitary. They are not too much of an aggressive species of marine fish but can be

territorial.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat crustaceans and other small fish. They do not have

teeth so they just basically suck in their food and swallow it whole.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowtail_snapper

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Title: Marine Fish Species #:40

Common Name: Atlantic Tarpon

Scientific Name: Megalops atlanticus


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Elopiformes

Family: Megalopidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are mainly found in the Atlantic Ocean. They are a very

big fish, so therefore they prefer the open waters of the deep parts of the ocean. They also

prefer to stay in temperate waters.

Life Strategy: These fish have decent size teeth and can be very aggressive when it comes to

fighting. They are a very solitary animal. They also have been known to breach the water

by jumping out head first much like a whale or a great white shark.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish mainly eat different species of fish but by looking at their

teeth you could suspect that/ they would eat a human. However, they can also convert to

cannibalism.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_tarpon

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Common Name: Mahi Mahi

Scientific Name: Coryphaena hippurus



Family: Coryphaenidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are found worldwide. They prefer temperate, tropical

waters. They can be an inshore fish or can live in the open deep sea.

Life Strategy: These fish are a main course at most restaurants and are very popular

eating. They can be a part of a small school of fish but most of the time they are a very

solitary animal.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish can eat most species of other fish but will also eat jellyfish

and crustaceans. They swim alongside their fish and then attack.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi

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Common Name: Lagoon Triggerfish

Scientific Name: Rhinecanthus aculeatus



Family: Balistidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found in very tropical areas but are most common

in the coastline of the American state of Hawaii. These fish are actually the state fish of

Hawaii. They prefer warm waters and are a reef fish so they can have shelter.

Life Strategy: These fish live on the reef. This way they can have supreme shelter and also

have an endless supply of prey that they can hunt. They can sometimes be found in schools.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will prey on smaller fish. They also have a beak so that

they can crush bodies of fish and so they can crack the shells of any type of tiny crustacean

such as shrimp or crabs.




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Common Name: Banggai Cardinalfish

Scientific Name: Pterapogon kauderni



Family: Apogonidae

Geography / Habitat: This fish is a very popular choice for aquariums. They are found of

the coasts of Indonesia in the huge reefs that lie among there. These fish prefer temperate,

tropical waters.

Life Strategy: These fish will most of the time travel in schools of ten or twenty more of

their own species. Even though these fish are quite small they can have a ferocious attitude

when the right situation occurs.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will feed on small shrimp on some occasions but their

restricted diet consists of mainly algae and other small sea plants.




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Common Name: Blue Fish

Scientific Name:



Family: Pomatomidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are mainly found in the Pacific Ocean but can sometimes

be found of the coast of Africa. They can live in warm or cold waters. These fish prefer to

live in the open sea.

Life Strategy: These fish are the only remaining species of the Pomatomidae family. These

fish can be found in large schools. They are also known to leap out of the water.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other small fish. They will also feed on tiny

crustaceans. Also every now and then they will eat the occasional jellyfish.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish

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Common Name: Orange Spotted Filefish

Scientific Name:



Family: Monacanthidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

They prefer to live on the reefs off of the coasts. These fish prefer warm, temperate,

tropical waters.

Life Strategy: They can rarely be found in schools of up to five fish. The reason for this is

because they can be quite aggressive when the right situation rises.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat other small fish. They will also eat crustaceans and

algae. They also have a beak so that they can crush the shells of small crabs.




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Common Name: Hawk fish

Scientific Name: Paracirrhites forsteri



Family: Cirrhitidae

Geography / Habitat: This fish can mainly be found in the Indo-Pacific. They prefer large

reefs so that they can be hidden from predators, yet still have a wide variety of prey that

they can choose from. This animal prefers warm waters.

Life Strategy: This fish has big eyes for a reason. This is so that they can see predators

from a great distance. These fish are quite aggressive.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish mainly eat algae. However, they can also be found

devouring a SMALL fish whole.




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Common Name: Squirrefsih

Scientific Name: Holocentrus ascensionis


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Beryciformes

Family: Holocentridae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are mainly found in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian

Oceans. They also prefer reefs for shelter and food at the same time. They prefer to live in

warm, tropical waters.

Life Strategy: These fish are mainly nocturnal. They use their big “squirrel” eyes to see at

night. These fish are not very aggressive at all. They can be found in schools of up to five

fish.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat small crustaceans and algae. They will also eat

other small fish as well.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocentridae

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Common Name: Red Drum

Scientific Name: Sciaenops ocellatus



Family: Sciaenidae

Geography / Habitat: These fish can be found in rivers in North America and also in the

Gulf of Mexico. This prefers to live in warm waters. They also prefer to live in the shallow

areas of the sea.

Life Strategy: These fish can live in freshwater and saltwater. They are relatives to the

salmon which can also do this. They live and mate in one place and then go back to the

other to give birth where they then die.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat freshwater and saltwater fish and crustaceans

such as crawfish and crabs. They can be quite aggressive when it comes to the feeding part

of their lives.




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Common Name: Striped Marlin

Scientific Name: Tetrapturus audax




Geography / Habitat: These fish are found in the Indo-Pacific region. They prefer the wide

open sea. They also are found in slightly cold waters of the Pacific.

Life Strategy: These fish are related to the swordfish and marlin. They also have a sword

like their cousins that is used for fighting and hunting their prey. They can swim very fast

to chase down prey and to get away from predators.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will stab their prey with their sword and slide it down into

their mouths. They eat decent size fish. They will swim into the giant schools and stab the

fish.




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Common Name: Cocoa Damselfish

Scientific Name: Stegastes variabilis



Family: Promacentridae

Geography / Habitat: These fish are mainly found in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico,

and the Caribbean Sea. They are preferably fond of reefs. They prefer warm, temperate,

and tropical waters.

Life Strategy: These fish can be found in small schools. They are not generally too

aggressive. They can be however if their young are threatened.

Food / Feed Strategy: These fish will eat algae and small crustaceans. They constantly peck

at the algae until they get it all off.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegastes_variabilis

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Title: fresh water fish Species #:51

Common Name: Striped bass

Scientific Name: Morone saxatilis


Class: actinopterygii Order: Perciformes

Family: Moronidae

Geography / Habitat: Striped bass are native to the Atlantic coastline of North America

from the St. Lawrence River into the Gulf of Mexico to approximately Louisiana. They are

fish that migrate between fresh and salt water.

Life Strategy: Spawning takes place in fresh water. They have been successfully adapted to

freshwater habitat, they naturally spend their adult lives in saltwater.

Food / Feed Strategy: Larval striped bass feed on zooplankton, while the diet of juvenile

bass consists of insect larvae, small crustaceans, mayflies, and other larval fish. Adult bass

eat almost any kind of small fish as well as several invertebrates, particularly crabs and

squid.

Body Form or Style: compressiform

Swim / Locomotion Style: carangiform

Mouth Position: terminal

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Common Name: white bass

Scientific Name: Morone chrysops



Family: Moronidae

Geography / Habitat: White bass inhabit large reservoirs and rivers. When mating in the

spring, they are more often found in shallow rivers, creeks, and streams.[5] White bass are

found in high densities in the upstream segment of rivers.

Life Strategy:

The spawning season for the white bass is mid-March to late May. The optimal water

temperatures are 12 to 20 degrees Celsius. They are known to find their home spawning

ground even if it's moved to a different part of the same lake.

Food / Feed Strategy: White bass are carnivores. They are visual feeders. When not

frightened, they will bite readily at live bait such as worms and minnows. Only the largest

fish will feed on other fish, and as the summer season progresses, there is an overall trend

towards eating fewer fish.[




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_bass

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Title: fresh water fish Species #: 53

Common Name: largemouth bass

Scientific Name: Micropterus salmoides



Family: Centrarchidae

Geography / Habitat: The largemouth bass has been known to exist in many of the lower

48 states of the U.S. Although it is most popular in the southeastern states, many different

varieties of the largemouth bass can be found in the north and western regions.

Life Strategy: Studies of prey utilization by largemouth show that in weedy waters, bass

grow more slowly due to difficulty in acquiring prey. Less weed cover allows bass to more

easily find and catch prey, but this consists of more open-water baitfish.

Food / Feed Strategy: The juvenile largemouth bass consumes mostly small bait fish, scuds,

small shrimp, and insects. Adults consume smaller fish, snails, crawfish, and snakes.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largemouth_bass

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Common Name: smallmouth bass

Scientific Name: Micropterus dolomieu




Geography / Habitat: is found in clearer water than the largemouth, especially streams,

rivers, and the rocky areas and stumps and also sandy bottoms of lakes and reservoirs. The

smallmouth prefers cooler water temperatures than its cousin the largemouth bass, and

may be found in both still and moving water.

Life Strategy: The female can lay up to 21,100 eggs, which are guarded by the male in his

nest.

Food / Feed Strategy: Smallmouth bass are Carnivorous, its diet comprises crayfish,

insects, and smaller fish; the young also feeding on zooplankton.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallmouth_bass

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Common Name: Spotted Bass

Scientific Name: Micropterus punctulatus




Geography / Habitat: It has now been determined that the "Spotted Bass" found in the

Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers, and their lakes, are a new species, now known as the

"Alabama Bass".

Life Strategy: convenient way to distinguish between a largemouth bass and a spotted bass

is by the size of the mouth. A spotted bass will resemble a largemouth bass in coloration

but will have a smaller mouth.

Food / Feed Strategy: Preferring cool and warm mountain streams and reservoirs with

rocky bottoms, the spotted bass feeds on insects, crustaceans, frogs, annelid worms, and

smaller fish.




Citation: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/spb/

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Common Name: rainbow trout

Scientific Name: Oncorhynchus mykiss


Class: actinopterygii Order: Salmoniformes

Family: Salmonidae

Geography / Habitat: the rainbow trout is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the

Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The species has been introduced for food or

sport to at least 45 countries.

Life Strategy: They return to their original hatching ground to spawn. "Summer-run

steelheads" migrate between May and October, before their reproductive organs are fully

mature. They mature in freshwater before spawning in the spring.

Food / Feed Strategy: Rainbow trout are predators with a varied diet, and will eat nearly

anything they can grab. Their image as selective eaters is only a legend. Rainbows are not

quite as piscivorous or aggressive as brown trout or lake trout.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_trout#Life_cycle

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Common Name: blue catfish

Scientific Name: Ictalurus furcatus


Class: actinopterygii Order: Siluriformes

Family: Ictaluridae

Geography / Habitat: Blue catfish are distributed primarily in the Mississippi River

drainage including the Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Arkansas rivers.

Life Strategy: Spawn in late spring or early summer. The male, sometimes with the help of

the female, selects and guards the nest site in dark secluded areas such as cavities in drift

piles, logs, undercut banks and rocks.

Food / Feed Strategy: Blue catfish are opportunistic predators and will eat any species of

fish they can catch, along with crayfish, freshwater mussels, frogs, and other readily

available aquatic food sources; some blue catfish have reportedly attacked scuba divers.



Mouth Position: subterminal

Citation: http://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/blue-catfish

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Common Name: flathead catfish

Scientific Name: Pylodictis olivaris



Family: Ictaluridae

Geography / Habitat: Adults prefer deep pools with slow current and cover, such as

submerged logs and brush piles. They are found in large rivers in Ohio and are most

abundant in the Maumee, Muskingum, Scioto, and Ohio Rivers.

Life Strategy: Flathead catfish spawn when water temperatures reach 70 degrees

Fahrenheit. They build nests in dark secluded shelters such as natural cavities, undercut

banks, or near large submerged objects.

Food / Feed Strategy: Flatheads are predatory fish and will consume bass, bream, shad,

crayfish and often feed on other catfish.




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Common Name: silver carp

Scientific Name: Hypophthalmichthys molitrix


Class: actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes

Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: species of freshwater cyprinid fish, a variety of Asian carp native to

north and northeast Asia. It is cultivated in China. They are usually farmed in polyculture

with other Asian carps, or sometimes Indian carps or other species.

Life Strategy: Mature to breeding at three years old and breed until 10 years old. They live

in rivers and streams, feeding in schools until spawning time then return to bigger water to

feed again.

Food / Feed Strategy: The silver carp is a filter feeder, and possesses a remarkably

specialized apparatus capable of filtering particles as small as 4 micrometers. The gill

rakers are fused into a sponge-like filter, and an epibranchial organ secretes mucus which

assists in trapping small particles.




Citation: http://oklahomainvasivespecies.okstate.edu/silver_carp.html

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Common Name: alligator gar

Scientific Name: Atractosteus spatula


Class: actinopterygii Order: Lepisosteiformes

Family: Lepisosteidae

Geography / Habitat: Alligator Gar are found in the Lower Mississippi River Valley and

Gulf Coast states of the Southern United States and Mexico as far south as Veracruz.

Life Strategy: Though the Alligator Gar prefers slow-moving waters of rivers, bayous, and

oxbows throughout most of the year, it appears to need spring time inundated floodplain

fields or wetland vegetation in order to spawn. Their eggs are very poisonous

Food / Feed Strategy: The Alligator Gar is a relatively passive, solitary fish that lives in

fresh and brackish water bodies in the Southern United States It is carnivorous and feeds

by lurking amongst reeds and other vegetation, ambushing prey.

Body Form or Style: sagittiform



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Common Name: channel catfish

Scientific Name: Ictalurus punctatus



Family: Ictaluridae

Geography / Habitat: Channel catfish are native to Ohio and are found throughout Ohio in

large streams, rivers, and lakes. They are also stocked in many farm ponds where they do

well but rarely reproduce. Channel catfish prefer areas with deep water, clean gravel or

boulder substrates and low to moderate current.

Life Strategy: They use natural cavities, undercut banks and muskrat burrows as nests.

The female lays a gelatinous mass containing between 8,000 to 15,000 eggs. The parents

remain over the nest to fan the eggs and guard the young after hatching.

Food / Feed Strategy: They are omnivorous and will eat a wide variety of items including

insect larvae, crayfish, mollusks, fish, and even some types of fruits and berries.




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Common Name: common carp

Scientific Name: Cyprinus carpio



Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: common carp is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in

lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia. It prefers large bodies of slow or standing water

and soft, vegetative sediments. As schooling fish, they prefer to be in groups of five or more.

Carp are able to tolerate water with very low oxygen levels, by gulping air at the surface.

Life Strategy: An egg-layer, a typical adult female can lay 300,000 eggs in a single spawn.

Although carp typically spawn in the spring, in response to rising water temperatures and

rainfall, carp can spawn multiple times in a season.

Food / Feed Strategy: Eggs and fry often fall victim to bacteria, fungi, and the vast array of

tiny predators in the pond environment. Carp which survive to juvenile are preyed upon

by other fish such as the northern pike and largemouth bass, and a number of birds.




Citation:

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Common Name: grass carp

Scientific Name: Ctenopharyngodon idella



Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: This species occurs in lakes, ponds, pools and backwaters of large

rivers, preferring large, slow-flowing or standing water bodies with vegetation.

Life Strategy: In the wild, grass carp spawn in fast-moving rivers, and their eggs, which are

slightly heavier than water, develop while drifting downstream, and kept in suspension by

turbulence. The eggs are thought to die if they sink to the bottom.

Food / Feed Strategy: Adults of the species feed primarily on aquatic plants. They feed on

higher aquatic plants and submerged terrestrial vegetation, but may also take detritus,

insects, and other invertebrates.




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Common Name: spotted gar

Scientific Name: Lepisosteus oculatus




Geography / Habitat: The spotted gar is native to North America and its current range is

from southern Ontario to the west from the Nueces River in Texas east to the Northern

coast of the Gulf of Mexico and southeast to the lower Apalachicola River in Florida.

Life Strategy: Spawning habitat includes floodplains and wetlands with an abundance of

aquatic vegetation. A female can have multiple mating partners and the female is usually

larger than the males they mate with. They lay their eggs on leaves of aquatic plants.

Food / Feed Strategy: Gar move slowly unless trying to catch food, which it grabs in its

jaws in a quick sideways lunge. They often bask near the water's surface on warm days.

Fry feed primarily on insect larvae and tiny crustaceans, but fish appear on the diet of

young gar very early. Prey is usually swallowed headfirst.




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Common Name: longnose gar

Scientific Name: Lepisosteus osseus




Geography / Habitat: longnose gar are found in Central America, Cuba, North America,

and the Isles of Pines. Longnose gar are frequently found in freshwater in the eastern half

of the United States.

Life Strategy: There consists of one female to five males per spawning ground. Eggs have a

toxic, adhesive coating helping them stick to substrates and are deposited onto stones in

shallow water, rocky shelves, vegetation, or smallmouth bass nests. Their hatch time is 7-9

days; young gar stay in vegetation during the first summer of life.

Food / Feed Strategy: The most common prey of the longnose gar is clupeids (herrings and

shads) as well as cyprinids and fundulids; they usually feed at night.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longnose_gar

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Common Name: blue gill

Scientific Name: Lepomis macrochirus




Geography / Habitat: Bluegill live in the shallow waters of many lakes and ponds, along

with slow-moving areas of streams and small rivers.

Life Strategy: Spawning season for bluegills starts late in May and extends into August.

The male bluegills arrive first at the mating site. They will make a spawning bed of six to

12 inches in diameter in shallow water, clustering as many as 50 beds together.

Food / Feed Strategy: A small female can produce as few as 1,000 eggs, and a large, healthy

female can produce up to 100,000 eggs.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegill

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Common Name: Florida Gar

Scientific Name: Lepisosteus platyrhincus




Geography / Habitat: They can be found in the Ochlockonee River and waters east and in

peninsular Florida in medium to large lowland streams, canals and lakes with muddy or

sandy bottoms near underwater vegetation

Life Strategy: This occurs in late winter and early spring. Groups of both sexes come

together in shallow weedy water where the females discharge their adhesive eggs among

the aquatic plants.

Food / Feed Strategy: They feed on many baits such as zooplankton, many smaller fish, and

certain birds.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_gar

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Common Name: Betta fish

Scientific Name: Betta persephone



Family: Osphronemidae

Geography / Habitat: The Betta is native freshwater fish from Thailand and Cambodia.

Wild Betta can often be found in a small pond, river and drain.

Life Strategy: Male bettas flare their gills, twist their bodies, and spread their fins if

interested in a female. The female will darken in colour, then curve her body back and

forth as a response

Food / Feed Strategy: Wild Betta fish are hardy and can eat almost anything in its living

environment including: living worms, larvae of mosquitoes or other insects, and even

smaller fish.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betta

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Common Name: oscar

Scientific Name: Astronotus ocellatus



Family: Cichlidae

Geography / Habitat: is native to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and French Guiana,

and occurs in the Amazon river basin, along the Amazonas river system.

Life Strategy: Captive oscars may be fed prepared fish food designed for large carnivorous

fish, crayfish, worms, and insects.

Food / Feed Strategy: Oscar fish owners will quickly notice that their Oscars are almost

always ready for a meal. It is recommended that owners don’t succumb to their pets’

begging and pleading at the aquarium glass and ensure that a disciplined feeding schedule

is in place at the outset.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_(fish)

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Common Name: koi

Scientific Name: Cyprinus carpio haematopterus



Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: Koi have been accidentally or deliberately released into the wild in

every continent except Antarctica. They quickly revert to the natural coloration of common

carp within a few generations. In many areas, they are considered an invasive species and

pests.

Life Strategy: Like most fish, koi reproduce through spawning in which a female lays a

vast number of eggs and one or more males fertilize them. Nurturing the resulting

offspring is a tricky and tedious job, usually done only by professionals.

Food / Feed Strategy: Fish do not have to be fed provided you do not overstock your pond.

They will live off of algae, insects and other miscellaneous food that the environment

provides




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koi

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Common Name: yellow bullhead

Scientific Name: Ameiurus natalis



Family: Ictaluridae

Geography / Habitat: Yellow bullhead range throughout the central and eastern US from

central Texas, north into North Dakota, and east through the Great Lakes region to the

east coast.

Life Strategy: Spawning begins in May and June with both sexes participating in nest

building. The nest may be under a log or stone or in a similarly enclosed burrow. The

female will lay 2,000 to 7,000 eggs. The eggs hatch within 5 to 10 days.

Food / Feed Strategy: The yellow bullhead is a voracious scavenger typically feeding at

night on a variety of plant and animal material, both live and dead, including small fish,

crayfish, insects, snails, and worms.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_bullhead


Common Name: shadow bass

Scientific Name: Ambloplites ariommus




Geography / Habitat: The shadow bass' native range includes the southeastern United

States from the Apalchicola River drainage in Georgia to the lower Mississippi basin in

Louisiana. The shadow bass inhabits small to medium size rivers and streams with

permanent water flow and prefers cool water temperatures.

Life Strategy: The male shadow bass does the nest constructing, the females only obligation

is to pick a suitable males nest and lay her eggs after that she departs. The male bass

watches over the eggs till they hatch 3–5 days later.[

Food / Feed Strategy: diet of shadow bass consist mostly on small invertebrates mainly

crayfish Order Decapoda when small less than three inches after three inches can begin

feeding on small fish species such as darters, madtoms, and minnows.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambloplites_ariommus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambloplites_ariommus


Common Name: creek chub

Scientific Name: Semotilus atromaculatus



Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: The creek chub's current range is the eastern two-thirds of the US

and southeastern Canada. It can quickly adapt to different extreme environments, and can

live on many different foods.

Life Strategy: The creek chub has specific behaviors at different ages. Commonly a school

fish, they have been documented to school from birth to late adult, occupying the edges of

pools. Creek chub travels together within the same 50-meter radius, ensuring safety from

unknown predators and environment; this increases their potential for survival.

Food / Feed Strategy: The creek chub is described as an opportunist and a carnivore, and

consumes many different foods to survive, including fish, insect remains and vegetation.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semotilus_atromaculatus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semotilus_atromaculatus


Common Name: common shiner

Scientific Name: Luxilus cornutus



Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: The Common Shiner can be found in rivers and streams, usually in

the faster pools. It can also be found in ponds and lakes throughout North America.

Life Strategy: Common shiners spawn in spring, usually over the nest of a creek chub,

river chub, or fallfish, although some males will make their own small nests.

Food / Feed Strategy: The Common Shiner eats terrestrial and aquatic insects, vegetation,

and other fishes.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Shiner


Common Name: lake trout

Scientific Name: Salvelinus namaycush


Class: actinopterygii Order: Salmoniformes

Family: Salmonidae

Geography / Habitat: lake trout are quite rare. They are native only to the northern parts

of North America, principally Canada, but also Alaska and, to some extent, the

northeastern United States.

Life Strategy: Lake trout spawn at night on rocky shoals in the fall, usually during late

October or early November. Fertilized eggs settle within rocky crevices where they remain

until hatching about four to six months later in late February to April.

Food / Feed Strategy: As juveniles, lake trout feed on zooplankton and small invertebrates.

As they mature, their foraging patterns shift and the fish become opportunistic piscivores.

As adults, lake trout are generally pisciverous, feeding on a wide variety of pelagic prey

species.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout

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Common Name: common bream

Scientific Name: Abramis brama



Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: The common bream generally lives in rivers and in nutrient-rich

lakes and ponds with muddy bottoms and plenty of algae.

Life Strategy: The common bream spawns from April to June. At this time the males form

territories within which the females lay 100,000 to 300,000 eggs on water plants. The fry

hatch after three to twelve days and attach themselves to water plants with special adhesive

glands, until their yolk is used up.

Food / Feed Strategy: At night common bream can feed close to the shore and in clear

waters with sandy bottoms feeding pits can be seen during daytime. The fish's protractile

mouth helps it dig for chironomid larvae. The bream eats water plants and plankton as

well.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bream

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Common Name: small mouth buffalo

Scientific Name: Ictiobus bubalus



Family: Catostomidae

Geography / Habitat: The smallmouth buffalo is a hardy fish that frequents clear,

moderate to fast-moving streams but has been occasionally known in some lakes and

ponds. If prefers waters with dense aquatic vegetation and a silty bottom.

Life Strategy: Spawning often occurs in shallower sections of streams where the egg can

adhere to vegetation and gravel to keep from flowing away.

Food / Feed Strategy: The smallmouth buffalo's diet is primarily that of a detritivore, using

its ventral sucker mouth to pick up vegetation and other organic matter from the bottom of

its habitat, often scraping algae off of rocks.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictiobus_bubalus

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Common Name: bigmouth buffalo

Scientific Name: Ictiobus cyprinellus




Geography / Habitat: It is distributed from the United States to the Ohio River and south

in the Mississippi River system to Texas and Alabama in the United States. It lives in

sluggish areas of large rivers and shallow lakes and streams.

Life Strategy: The bigmouth buffalo migrates upstream to spawn in the spring, usually

April to June where it lays its eggs on plants to which they adhere

Food / Feed Strategy: Bigmouth buffalo are a filter-feeder, using its very fine gill rakers to

strain crustacean zooplankton from the water




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigmouth_buffalo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigmouth_buffalo


Common Name: black buffalo

Scientific Name: Ictiobus niger




Geography / Habitat:

is found in large and small rivers in eastern North America from Mississippi to Canada. In

Canada, the species was first described in Lake Eerie.

Life Strategy: the black buffalo is a spring spawner. They spawn in flooded areas and

backwaters of sloughs and small to large rivers.

Food / Feed Strategy: The black buffalo fish is a bottom feeder.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ictiobus_niger

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Common Name: northern pike

Scientific Name: Esox lucius



Family: Esocidae

Geography / Habitat: Pike are found in sluggish streams and shallow, weedy places in

lakes, as well as in cold, clear, rocky waters.

Life Strategy: The males are first at the spawning grounds preceding the females for a few

weeks. The larger females tend to be earlier than the smaller ones. Mostly a female is

followed by several smaller males. When a pair starts slowing down the male will put his

tail under the female's body and release it's sperm that is mixed with the eggs due to the

tail movement.

Food / Feed Strategy: The pike have a very typical hunting behavior; they are able to

remain stationary in the water by moving the last fin rays of the dorsal fins and the breast

fins. The pike have a very typical hunting behavior; they are able to remain stationary in

the water by moving the last fin rays of the dorsal fins and the breast fins.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike


Common Name: yellow bass

Scientific Name: Morone mississippiensis



Family: Moronidae

Geography / Habitat: is a freshwater fish native to the south and midwestern United States.

The species name "mississippiensis" refers to the Mississippi River, where it was first

described and is still most commonly found.

Life Strategy: Yellow bass spawn over gravel bars in late April to June, moving into

tributary streams and spawning over rock reefs and/or gravel bars in lakes. Females may

lay more than 500,000 eggs that are left uncared for, capable of mating with other bass

species to form hybrids

Food / Feed Strategy: Bass feed on zooplankton, insect larvae, aquatic insects and small

fish. Recommended artificial lures when fishing for yellow bass are spoons and spinners




Citation: http://www.fishhound.com/fishspecies/bass-yellow

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Common Name: warmouth bass

Scientific Name: Lepomis gulosus




Geography / Habitat: This species is native and found throughout the much of the south in

the Mississippi River drainage; existing all the way to the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts and

Northward to the Chesapeake Bay

Life Strategy: Their spawning often begins in May and lasts until July. Nests are primarily

constructed on rock or gravel substrates, usually located in or near to some type of

structure in the water column.

Food / Feed Strategy: The primary diet of the warmouth consists of insects, crayfish and

other fishes.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth


Common Name: yellow perch

Scientific Name: Perca flavescens



Family: Percidae

Geography / Habitat: Yellow perch is native to North America in the northern region east

of the Rocky Mountains including tributaries to the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean and the

Mississippi River. It has been widely dispersed from its native range.

Life Strategy: Yellow perch spawn once a year in spring using large schools and shallow

areas of a lake or low-current tributary streams. They do not build a redd or nest.

Spawning typically takes place at night or in the early morning.

Food / Feed Strategy: Yellow perch spawn once a year in spring using large schools and

shallow areas of a lake or low-current tributary streams. They do not build a redd or nest.

Spawning typically takes place at night or in the early morning




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_perch#Geographic_distribution

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Common Name: Alabama sturgeon

Scientific Name: Scaphirhynchus suttkusi


Class: actinopterygii Order: Acipenseriformes

Family: Acipenseridae

Geography / Habitat: is a critically endangered species of sturgeon native to the United

States of America and now only believed to exist in 130 miles of the lower Alabama River.

Life Strategy: adults spawn over rocky bottom. Individuals are fairly active during the

spring, probably because they are searching for spawning partners.

Food / Feed Strategy: there diet includes aquatic larva fishes and crustaceans.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_sturgeon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_sturgeon


Common Name: sunfish readear

Scientific Name: Lepomis microlophus




Geography / Habitat: is native to the southeastern United States, but since it is a popular

sport fish it has been introduced to bodies of water all over North America

Life Strategy: During spawning, males congregate and create nests close together in

colonies, and females visit to lay eggs. The redear sometimes hybridizes with other sunfish

species.

Food / Feed Strategy: The favorite food of this species is snails. These fish are bottom

feeders, meandering along lakebeds seeking and cracking open snails and other shelled

creatures.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redear_sunfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redear_sunfish


Common Name: white crappie

Scientific Name: Pomoxis annularis




Geography / Habitat: White crappie can be found in large rivers, reservoirs and lakes.

White crappie are more tolerant of turbid (murky) waters than black crappie.

Life Strategy: White crappie spawns in May and June. Males construct nests by creating

small bowl shaped depressions on the bottom around brush, rocks, and logs in shallow

water. Females lay 5,000 to 30,000 eggs. The males guard these nests until the fry swim

away.

Food / Feed Strategy: Adult crappies feed mainly on other fish and some large

invertebrates such as crayfish and hellgrammites. Young crappie feed primarily on small

invertebrates during their first year of life.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_crappie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_crappie


Common Name: redeye bass

Scientific Name: Micropterus coosae




Geography / Habitat: It is native to only a few rivers in western South Carolina,

southwestern North Carolina, northern middle and eastern Tennessee, southwestern

Virginia, and portions of Georgia, Alabama.

Life Strategy: The spawning of the redeye bass. The males will construct a nest in which

the female will deposit between 2,000 to 3,000 eggs. These relatively large eggs are

maintained and guarded throughout incubation and development of the fry.

Food / Feed Strategy: Its main food tends to be insects.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeye_bass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeye_bass


Common Name: chain pickerel

Scientific Name: Esox niger


Class: actinopterygii Order: Esociformes

Family: Esocidae

Geography / Habitat: Its range is along the eastern coast of North America from southern

Canada to Florida, and west to Texas.

Life Strategy: Chain pickerel spawn in the early spring. Eggs are adhesive ribbon-like

masses attached to submerged vegetation or structure. The female lays up to 50,000 eggs

but does not guard them.

Food / Feed Strategy: The chain pickerel feeds primarily on smaller fish which it ambushes

from cover with a rapid lunge and secures with its sharp teeth. Chain pickerel are also

known to eat frogs, worms, mice, crayfish, and a wide variety of other foods.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel


Common Name: walleye

Scientific Name:



Family: Percidae

Geography / Habitat: native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a

North American close relative of the European pikeperch.

Life Strategy: Adults migrate to tributary streams in late winter or early spring to lay eggs

over gravel and rock, although there are open water reef or shoal spawning strains as well.

Some populations are known to spawn on sand or on vegetation.

Food / Feed Strategy: Like most other predatory fish, walleyes are opportunists. They eat

whatever foods nature provides them. walleyes feed almost exclusively on insects, both

immature and adult forms. Occasionally, walleyes eat snails, leeches, frogs, mudpuppies,

crayfish and even mice.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye#Reproduction

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Common Name: Freshwater Drum

Scientific Name: Aplodinotus grunniens



Family: Sciaenidae

Geography / Habitat: Freshwater drum are the only member of their family to inhabit

freshwater. Their great distribution range goes as far north as the Hudson Bay, and

reaches as far south as Guatemala most wide ranging species in North America..

Life Strategy: The freshwater drum then spawns during a six to seven-week period from

June through July. During the spawn, females release their eggs into the water column and

males release their sperm. Fertilization is random.

Food / Feed Strategy: The diet of the freshwater drum is generally benthic and composed

of mainly aquatic insect larvae and bivalve mussels, as well as small fish in certain

ecosystems.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_drum

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Title: Fresh Water Fish Species #: 91

Common Name: Goldfish

Scientific Name: Carassius auratus auratus


Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes

Family: Cyprinidae

Geography / Habitat: The Goldfish is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of

order Cyprinitformes. It was one of the earlierst fish to be domesticated and is one

of the most commonly kept aquarium fish.

Life Strategy: The life strategy of a goldfish is to live and reproduce.

Food / Feed Strategy: Goldfish normally eat goldfish flakes. They suck them in

through their mouth.

Body Form or Style: compressaform

Swim / Locomotion Style: carrangiform

Mouth Position:terminal

Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish

Title: Fresh Water Fish Species #: 92

Common Name: Angelfish

Scientific Name: Pterophyllum



Family: Cichlidae

Geography / Habitat: The Pterophyllum, also known as Angelfish is a freshwater

fish that is from the family Cichlidae. All angelfish species originate from the

Amazon River, Orinoco River and Essequibo River basins in tropical South

America.

Life Strategy: The life Strategy of an Angelfish, also known as Pterophyllum is to

live and reproduce. Angelfish are ambush predators and prey on small fish

and macroinvertebrates. All Pterophyllum species form monogamous pairs. Eggs

are generally laid on a submerged log or a flattened leaf. As is the case for other

cichlids, brood care is highly developed.

Food / Feed Strategy: The Angelfish normally eat flakes for tropical fresh water

fish.




Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterophyllum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterophyllum

Title: Freshhwater Fish Species #: 93

Common Name: Cardinal Tetra

Scientific Name: Paracheirodom axelrodi

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Paracheirodom

Class: Actinopterygii Order: Characiformes

Family: Characidae

Geography / Habitat: these fish prefer slow moving, middle layer water in shoals.

They prefer slightly acidic pH of 5.8 and a temperature of 24 degrees Celcius.

Cardinal tetras do not migrate and are generally found in open water. Cardinal

tetras are small fish; males grow to about 2.5 cm in length in the wilt but can attain

lengths of 5 cm in an aquarium.

Life Strategy: Eggs hatch within 24-30 hours of fertilization. Females can release

their eggs during the rainy season. The eggs become fertilized by the sperm of males

in close proximity. Mating takes place at twilight during the rainy season.

Food / Feed Strategy: This fish eats very small crutstaceans, mesocauna, eggs,

algae, detritus ad some other types of prey.

Body Form or Style: Fusiform



Citation: http://animaldiversity.ummz,umich.edu/site/index.ht



Title: Freshwater Fish Species #: 94

Common Name: Red Fire Guppy

Scientific Name: Poecilia Reticulata

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Poecilia


Family: Poecilidae

Geography / Habitat: The Red Fire Guppy is a very calm and peaceful fish and

should be housed with freshwater tank mates of similar temperament.

Life Strategy: The male guppy is smaller in size then the female. Males have

brighter coloration and females have a duller coloration. Females also dent to be

more aggressive then the male red Fire Guppy.

Food / Feed Strategy: The Red Fire Guppy is omnivores and requires both algae

based foods as well as meaty foods. An algae based flake food, along with freeze

dries bloodworms and brine shrimp will provide guppies with the proper nutrition.




Citation: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/

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Title: Freshwater Fish Species #: 95

Common Name: Madagascan Rainbow

Scientific Name: Bedotia gaegi

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Bedotia

Class: Actinopterygii Order: Atheriniformes

Family: Bedotiidae

Geography / Habitat: This fish was found and identified in 1907 and is a member of

the Silverside group. Rainbow fish are known for their characteristic large eyes,

black or silver band, which runs through the middle scales row of their body. They

have a deeply forked mouth and two dorsal fins.

Life Strategy: The peaceful fish is a schooling fish that should be housed in a

planted aquarium with plenty of room to swim as they are very active. Madagascan

Rainbow fish do best with gravel in their tank.

Food / Feed Strategy: The Madagascan Rainbow Fish have a large mouth, but their

throat tends to be very narrow. With this mind, foods should not be to large for

your fish. A good diet for these fish should consist of flakes food.

Body Form or Style: Sagittiform



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