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Animals - Marine Fish

Here you will learn the names of marine fish in English such as "sardine", "herring", and "mackerel".

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anchovy

a small shoaling fish that is used as food or as bait and resembles herrings

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pilchard

a small forage fish that is edible and lives in marine waters, forming large shoals

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ray

any marine cartilaginous fish with a flat body and eyes on the upper surface, which swims using large pectoral fins

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salmon

a silver-colored fish often found in both freshwater and saltwater environments

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sardine

a small oily fish of the herring family with silvery color that is used as food

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shark

‌a large sea fish with a pointed fin on its back and very sharp teeth

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skate

a large marine fish related to the ray family with a diamond shape and a tail

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snapper

any carnivorous warm water perciform fish that is red in color and is valued as food

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sole

a marine flatfish of the flounder family which is considered a food fish

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sprat

a very small forage fish that is a European marine fish of the herring family, eaten as food

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stingray

a large sea fish of the ray family that has a long toxic spine at the base of its tail

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sunfish

among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters

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brill

a type of flatfish characterized by its oval-shaped body, diamond patterned skin, and delicate, mild-flavored flesh

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cod

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

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coelacanth

a rare plump marine fish with lobed fins living in Indian Ocean, once thought to be extinct

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dab

a small flatfish that lives in deep waters and is eaten as food, originated in the North Atlantic

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dogfish

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

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flounder

a small marine food fish of the flatfish species that is found in deep oceanic waters

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flying fish

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

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haddock

a salt water food fish of the cod family with silvery gray color and a black line under its dorsal fins

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hake

any large marine food fish that is related to the Atlantic cod

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halibut

a large marine flatfish that is eaten as food, especially on Catholic holy days

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herring

a mostly coastal fish of silvery color that moves in large shoals and is largely consumed as food

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lemon sole

a flatfish species found in the North Atlantic Ocean, known for its lemon-yellow coloration on the upper side

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mackerel

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

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marlin

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

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swordfish

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

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tunny

a large fish which is eaten as food

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turbot

a large European flatfish native to North Atlantic that is an important food fish

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whiting

a food fish of the Eastern Atlantic Ocean of the cod family that is also known as English whiting

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whitebait

the young of European herrings that are silvery white and edible

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conger

a large predatory eel with dark color that lives in shallow coastal waters and is eaten as food

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beluga

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

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codfish

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

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wrasse

a tropical marine fish with bright colors and wide lips that is kept in aquariums

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rainbow trout

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

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barracouta

a thin and bony marine fish that is eaten as food, caught in southern oceans

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pollock

a North Atlantic marine fish that resembles cod and is used as food

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horse mackerel

an East Atlantic food fish of the jack family that lives in large schools and is caught in Southern Africa

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manta

a very large tropical fish of the ray family that moves its triangular sides as wings in order to swim

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pufferfish

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

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lanternfish

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

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dory

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

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barramundi

a large perch-like fish that is originally from Australia, which migrates down rivers to the sea in order to spawn

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bluefish

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

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atlantic salmon

a ray-finned fish of the salmon family that is used as food and migrates to freshwater streams in order to spawn

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skipjack

a mid-sized perciform fish of the tuna family that has dark horizontal stripes

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mudskipper

an amphibious fish of the goby family that is able to move around on mud or wet sand

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eel

a long and thin freshwater or marine fish that is like a snake, sometimes eaten as food

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John Dory

a coastal marine game fish with a wide olive-colored body and long dorsal fins

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tuna fish

important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae

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bull shark

an aggressive type of shark that lives in warm and shallow waters near coastlines

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hammerhead

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

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yellowtail

a species of fish characterized by its yellow-colored tail fin and its firm, flavorful flesh

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