Football Fish
Glow-lure hunter of the midnight sea
Reproductive Methods
Broadcast Spawning
Eggs and sperm released into water for external fertilization, common in marine invertebrates and fish
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Broadcast Spawning Animals
Snook Fish
Linesiders of the tides
Mojarra
Silver schools, sand-sipping snouts
Surgeonfish
Scalpels on the tail, gardeners of reefs
Redtail Catfish
Big head. Red tail. River titan.
Banana Eel
Golden tail, midnight hunter
Mola mola (Ocean Sunfish)
Clavus, not tail: the ocean's odd giant
Stargazer Fish
Eyes up. Mouth up. Strike up.
Conger Eel
Night hunters of the seafloor
Red-Lipped Batfish
Walks the seafloor. Fishes with a lure.
Batfish
Walk the bottom, lure the bite.
Rainbow Shark
All the attitude, none of the shark.
Goliath Tigerfish
Teeth like knives, built for rapids
Australian Flathead Perch
Striped reef hider of the Coral Sea
Peppermint Angelfish
Peppermint stripes from the twilight reef
Wrought Iron Butterflyfish
Nature's living wrought-iron filigree
Masked Angelfish
Hawaii's twilight-zone masked angel
Dickinsonia
Quilted giant of Earth's deep past
Tully Monster
Illinois' Carboniferous mystery creature
Leedsichthys
Jurassic seas' gentle giant filter-feeder
Anomalocaris
Cambrian seas' original superpredator
Leptocephalus
Leaf-larva today, eel tomorrow
Viperfish
Fangs, lights, and life in the dark
Cockle
Ribbed hearts of the tidal flats