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Lutjanus johnii has a moderatel deep body in which its standard length is 2,4 to 2.9 its depth at the deepest point. It has a steeply sloped forehead and the incision and know on the preoperculum are weakly developed The vomerine teeth are arranged in a crescent shaped patch with no rearwards extension although there is a patch of granular teeth on the tongue. [5]
Archosargus probatocephalus, the sheepshead, sheepshead seabream or convict fish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. This species is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. The sheepshead is an important species to recreational and commercial fisheries.
On the fish, the opercles (or bony areas forming the gill covers) have scales, whereas the preopercles (bone at the start of the cheek), napes, and breasts are scaleless. The johnny darter has two dorsal fins , the first has hard (spinous) rays, while the second is soft-rayed (flexible).
President Barack Obama has had a new species named in his honor, called the Tosanoides obama.
The freshwater drum is also called Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass, [7] Gasper goo, Gaspergou, [8] gou, [8] grunt, grunter, [7] grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. It is commonly known as sheephead and sunfish in parts of Canada, [ 9 ] and the United States.
John Dory, St Pierre, or Peter's fish, refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, of widespread distribution. It is an edible demersal coastal marine fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large dark spot, and long spines on the dorsal fin. Its large eyes at the front of the head provide it with binocular ...
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On "River Monsters," Jeremy Wade traveled to South America to investigate where a Bolivian man named Oscar was killed when face was ripped off while swimming across the South American River.