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 [noun]

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

pilchard [noun]

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

ray [noun]

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

Ex: The aquarium displayed a giant freshwater ray .
salmon [noun]

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

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sardine [noun]

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

shark [noun]

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

Ex: Mark watched a documentary about different species of sharks .
skate [noun]

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

snapper [noun]

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

sole [noun]

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

Ex: The delicate flavor of grilled sole made it a popular choice in seafood restaurants .
sprat [noun]

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

stingray [noun]

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

sunfish [noun]

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

brill [noun]

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

cod [noun]

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

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

dab [noun]

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

dogfish [noun]

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

flounder [noun]

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

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

haddock [noun]

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

hake [noun]

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

halibut [noun]

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

herring [noun]

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

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

mackerel [noun]

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

marlin [noun]

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

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

tunny [noun]

a large fish which is eaten as food

turbot [noun]

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

whiting [noun]

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

the young of European herrings that are silvery white and edible

conger [noun]

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

beluga [noun]

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

codfish [noun]

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

wrasse [noun]

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

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

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

pollock [noun]

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

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

manta [noun]

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

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

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

dory [noun]

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

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

bluefish [noun]

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

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

skipjack [noun]

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

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

eel [noun]

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

Ex: After the storm , many eels were seen near the shore .

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

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

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

Ex: Bull sharks are opportunistic feeders , preying on a variety of marine creatures including fish , turtles , and even other sharks .

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

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