The spotted mullet/goatfish has an elongated body with a small protrusible mouth with conical teeth and two long barbels on their chin, giving them the look of a goat. The spotted goatfish can lead to ciguatera poisoning. It is a poisoning caused by eating otherwise edible tropical, subtropical, and reef fish, in whose flesh a toxic substance accumulates produced by dinoflagellates. The symptoms of this poisoning develop in three to six hours or in some rare cases even after 30 hours of eating the contaminated fish, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach pain. Each year up to 50,000 cases of ciguatera poisoning are reported and affect every 3 out of 100 people.
The total number of common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) present in the world cannot be determined or known. However, 12 distinct species of snook are known in total which live in the temperate waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The definite number of common snook present in the world cannot be made, but it is believed that there are millions of them since one common snook female gives birth to more than one million young snooks. But overtime, several coastal areas of the world have observed a decline in the population of the common snook.
Because opah are not a major commercial seafood species and they live in the deep ocean, scientists know very little about their biology and ecology. Scientists assume opah share general characteristics with other Pacific Ocean pelagic fish. Scientists estimate that opah grow quickly. Although they're not sure of opah's exact life span, scientists age opah by their fin rays, assuming fin ray marks are formed annually.
Lumpfish can be bluish grey, olive, brownish, yellowish-green or reddish-brown colored. Color of the body matches with the colors of the environment and provides camouflage. Males are more vividly colored than females. Lumpfish are poor swimmers. Its small, but heavy body is not designed for fast swimming, so it spends most of its life on the bottom of the sea. It occasionally swims toward the shallow water and hides in the floating mass of seaweed.
Drum, also called croaker, are carnivorous, generally bottom-dwelling fishes. Most are marine, found along warm and tropical seashores. A number inhabit temperate or fresh waters. Most are noisemakers and can "vocalize" by moving strong muscles attached to the air bladder, which acts as a resonating chamber, amplifying the sounds. The scientific name of the drum fish is Sciaenidae, which derives from the Latin name for the sea fish, sciaena. Sciaena is also the name of a specific genus within Sciaenidae. The entire family belongs to the order of ray-finned fish called Perciformes. Featuring the familiar perch, sunfish, groupers, and snappers, it is the largest order of vertebrates in the world
The research on whether or not stingrays like being touched is controversial at best. For example, the AZA-certified Shedd Aquarium in Chicago published findings in 2017 suggesting that the animals don't suffer from their interactions with humans, and might even enjoy it.5 Just a year later, however, 34 of the aquarium's 42 cownose stingrays featured in the touch exhibit mysteriously died.
The gurnard's giant pectoral fins look dangerous ... and that's the point! When threatened, these incredible fish fan them out to scare off predators. The fins also come in handy for "walking" along the ocean floor or poking around in the sand for food. The name "gurnard" comes from the French word for "grunt", which is apt as the fish are known to emit growling sounds through their swim bladder. However, flying gurnards don't actually fly – although some sources claim they can glide above the surface for brief stints using their large pectorals.
Though the burbot lake fish is not the prettiest in the Minnesota waters, the eelpout taste is significantly good and buttery, especially a fry or a baby ice eelpout. Earning itself the nickname, 'poor man's lobster,' the eelpout contains a distinctive style and denser meat than typical fish. Instead of flaky fillets, eelpout meat is commonly cubed and said to be very similar to lobster and is very good to eat.
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False clownfish live in the coral reefs off the coasts of Australia and Southeast Asia as far north as southern Japan. They are found mainly around certain kinds of anemones, a creature that anchors itself to the sea floor and uses its tentacles to attract food. The anemone's tentacles have stinging cells called nematocysts that release a toxin when prey or predator touches it. Clownfish, however, develop immunity to the toxin by very carefully touching the tentacles with different parts of their bodies, according to National Geographic. A layer of mucus builds up, protecting the clownfish from the toxin. The pair forms a symbiotic relationship. The anemone provides protection and leftovers for the clownfish, while the clownfish brings food to the anemone and preens its host, removing parasites.