Sustantivos Básicos - Peces
Aquí aprenderás algunos sustantivos en inglés relacionados con los peces como "salmón", "tiburón" y "anguila".
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a silver-colored fish often found in both freshwater and saltwater environments

salmón
El salmón nada contra fuertes corrientes para llegar a sus zonas de desove, mostrando una increíble fuerza y determinación.
a type of large fish that is found in warm seas

atún
El atún enlatado es una opción conveniente para comidas rápidas, ya sea en sándwiches o platos de pasta.
a large sea fish with a pointed fin on its back and very sharp teeth

tiburón
Mark vio un documental sobre diferentes especies de tiburones.
a small red or orange fish often kept as a pet

pez dorado
Los peces dorados vienen en una variedad de colores y patrones, desde el naranja vibrante hasta los tonos metálicos brillantes.
a long and thin freshwater or marine fish that is like a snake, sometimes eaten as food

anguila
Después de la tormenta, se vieron muchas anguilas cerca de la orilla.
a small oily fish of the herring family with silvery color that is used as food

sardina
a large migratory marine fish that has a very long pointed snout and is both a food and a game fish

pez espada, emperador
any of the order of North American freshwater fish that are distinguished by having barbels and no scales

bagre, siluro
any freshwater food fish of the salmon family that are found in cold waters of Eurasia and North America

trucha
a very large marine fish that has a long body and a long bill inhabiting warm waters, which is caught for sport

aguja, marlín
a type of freshwater fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, typically with a deep body and barbels near the mouth

carpa, carpa común
El pescador atrapó una gran carpa cerca de la orilla del río.
a small carnivorous freshwater fish of the South American origin that has sharp teeth and forms schools

piraña
a type of shark with a unique head shape that is wide and flattened, resembling the shape of a hammer

tiburón martillo, cornuda
an intelligent sea mammal that looks like a whale and has a long snout and teeth

delfín
El sueño de Sarah es nadar con los delfines en su hábitat natural.
a sea creature that has a bell-shaped body, which is gelatinous and transparent, long thin tentacles and a poisonous sting

medusa
Mientras nadaba en el océano, vio una medusa y se aseguró de mantener la distancia.
a sea creature with eight, long arms and a soft round body with no internal shell

pulpo
Los pulpos son cazadores hábiles, que usan sus tentáculos para capturar presas y sus afilados picos para desgarrarlas.
an echinoderm that has five arms arranged in the form of a star and feeds on mollusks

estrella de mar
the microscopic organisms floating in the sea or fresh water on which larger animals feed

plancton
a small marine fish with an upright posture, a horse-like head and a curled tail

caballito de mar, hipocampo
Un caballito de mar puede cambiar de color para mezclarse con su entorno.
a marine creature that can change color and has a long soft body with ten tentacles helping it swim very fast

calamar
El chef preparó un aperitivo clásico de calamares friendo anillos de calamar hasta que estuvieran crujientes.
a marine invertebrate with a body full of holes through which water can circulate and nutrients can be absorbed

esponja
a marine organism that lives in warm waters and forms clusters of polyps, which secrete calcium carbonate to build a hard skeleton

coral
El coral fue cuidadosamente recolectado para investigar sus patrones de crecimiento.
a type of sea creature with a shell, such as clams, oysters, mussels, shrimp, lobster, etc.

marisco
La exhibición del acuario mostró varias especies de mariscos, incluyendo cangrejos ermitaños coloridos y caracoles de mar vibrantes.
a large, black-and-white marine mammal known for its social behavior, intelligence, and adaptability, found in oceans worldwide and known as an apex predator

orca, ballena asesina
an invertebrate with a wormlike body that is considered a marine creature and lives on seabed, with tentacles around the mouth

pepino de mar
a small shark with a long body that lives at the bottom of the sea

mielga, galludo, tollo de cacho
a group of marine fish that have the ability to glide above the water's surface by using their enlarged pectoral fins as wings

pez volador, exoceto
a migratory marine fish with greenish blue bars on its body which is a scombroid and is a commercially important game fish

caballa, macarela
a large food fish that lives in cold marine waters with a small barbel and three fins on the back

bacalao
a small bony marine fish with a large mouth and eyes, which has spots on its skin that shine in the dark

pez linterna, linternilla
a tropical marine fish that is blue in color and predatory, which is caught for food

pez azul, anchoa de banco, anjora
an aggressive type of shark that lives in warm and shallow waters near coastlines

tiburón toro, tiburón sarda
Los tiburones toro son alimentadores oportunistas, depredando una variedad de criaturas marinas, incluyendo peces, tortugas e incluso otros tiburones.
an amphibious fish of the goby family that is able to move around on mud or wet sand

saltarín del fango
a deep-bodied and large-eyed marine fish that can open its mouth very wide

pez cirujano azul
any tropical marine fish with no scale that fills with air in the face of threat and is highly poisonous

pez globo
a cold water coastal fish that is a salmonid and is caught for food or sport, which has green, white, pink, etc. color bands on its body

trucha arco iris
a small sub-Arctic whale that is white, from which caviar is taken

esturión beluga, beluga
a flat-bodied marine cartilaginous fish with eyes on the upper surface, swimming primarily using large, wing-like pectoral fins

raya
El acuario exhibía una raya gigante de agua dulce.
a small shoaling fish that is used as food or as bait and resembles herrings

anchoa
any North American perciform fish that inhabit fresh waters and have lean bodies

róbalo, cherna
a freshwater bony fish with a long body that is able to breathe out of water

pez pulmonado
a South American freshwater knifefish that is able to create an electric charge in order to kill its prey or find its way

anguila eléctrica
any carnivorous freshwater game fish with a long snout and body that inhabits brackish or fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere

lucio europeo
any silvery fish of the ray-finned family that forms shoals and is commercially important as food

mújol
a small Eurasian game fish of the cyprinoid family that lives in large shoals

pececillo de agua dulce, piscardo, foxino
any bottom-dwelling marine fish with a flat body, a color similar to the seabed and both eyes on the upper side of the body

pez plano
a small freshwater fish of tropical waters that is a live-bearer and is often kept in aquariums

guppy, pez millón
a small freshwater fish, black and silver in color, with long fins that originates in South America

escalar, pez ángel
a very large animal that lives in the sea, with horizontal tail fin and a blowhole on top of its head for breathing

ballena
Sarah leyó un libro sobre diferentes especies de ballenas.
a large sea animal with flippers that eats fish, can live on land and in water, and is hunted by humans for its fur

foca
Las focas usan sus aletas para impulsarse a través del agua con una agilidad notable, cazando peces y otras presas.