Cobia Fish
The ray-riding runner of warm seas
Conservation Threats
Natural System Modification
Altered fire regimes, water management, and ecosystem engineering
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Natural System Modification Animals
Halibut
Big, flat, fast: the true halibuts
Ghost Catfish
See-through swimmer, river-school ghost
Alaskan Pollock
The fish behind the fish stick
Tire Track Eel
Tire-track camo, night-stalking hunter
Pipefish
Tube snouts. Bony armor. Dad does the brooding.
Blue Catfish
Forked tail. Big river muscle.
Steelhead Salmon
Sea-run rainbow, built to return
Snow Crab
Built for the seafloor's deep freeze
Whiting
European whiting: NE Atlantic cod kin
Cat-Eyed Snake
Night eyes, frog hunters
Fire Eel
Not a true eel-pure river fire.
Needlefish
Built for speed at the surface
Yarara
Lanceheads: silent heat-seeking ambushers
Sockeye Salmon
Silver at sea, scarlet to spawn
Bull Trout
Big char, cold water, connected rivers.
Snook Fish
Linesiders of the tides
Mojarra
Silver schools, sand-sipping snouts
Surgeonfish
Scalpels on the tail, gardeners of reefs
Bluegill
Small mouth, big attitude-Bluegill
Cecropia Moth
Biggest native moth, built for one mission
Redtail Catfish
Big head. Red tail. River titan.
Electric Catfish
Africa's freshwater "shock" catfish
Banana Eel
Golden tail, midnight hunter