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Title: saltwater/ marines Species #: 1
Common Name: Blue Marlin
Scientific Name: Makaira nigricans Kingdom: animalia Phylum: chordata
Class: actinopterygii Order: perciformes
Family: istiophridae
Geography / Habitat: Marlin are distributed throughout the Atlantic's tropical and temperate waters; they are more populous in the western parts. It is a blue water fish that spends the majority of its life in the open sea, far away from land.
Life Strategy: Marlin breed in late summer and fall. Females may spawn as many as four times in one season. They often release over seven million eggs at once. Few reach sexual maturity. Atlantic blue marlin reaches sexual maturity at the age of two to four years.
Food / Feed Strategy: mackerel, dolphinfish, tuna, sardines, anchovies,herring, squid
Body Form or Style: marlin has two dorsal fins and two anal fins. The fins are supported by bony spines known as rays. The body is blue-black on top with a silvery white underside. Rover Predator
Swim / Locomotion Style: thunniform Mouth Position: superior
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_blue_marlin#See_also
Title: saltwater/ marines Species #: 2
Common Name: longbill spearfish
Scientific Name: tetrapturus pfluegeri Kingdom: animalia Phylum: chordata
Class: actinoptergii Order: perciformes
Family: istiophoridae
Geography / Habitat: Atlantic's tropical and temperate waters; they are more populous in the western parts. It is a blue water fish that spends the majority of its life in the open sea, far away from land.
Life Strategy: Marlin breed in late summer and fall. Females may spawn as many as four times in one season. They often release over seven million eggs at once. Few reach sexual maturity. Atlantic blue marlin reaches sexual maturity at the age of two to four years.
Food / Feed Strategy: : mackerel, dolphin fish, tuna, sardines, anchovies,herring, squid
Body Form or Style: marlin has two dorsal fins and two anal fins. The fins are supported by bony spines known as rays. The body is blue-black on top with a silvery white underside. Rover Predator
Swim / Locomotion Style: thunniform Mouth Position: superior Citation: http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/fish/saltwater/billfish/longbill-
spearfish/
Title: saltwater/ marines Species #: 3
Common Name: sailfish
Scientific Name: istiophorus platypterus Kingdom: animalia Phylum: chordata
Class: actinopterygii Order: perciformes
Family: istiophoridea
Geography / Habitat: living in warmer sections of all the oceans of the world.
Life Strategy: : Marlin breed in late summer and fall. Females may spawn as many as four times in one season. They often release over seven million eggs at once. Few reach sexual maturity. Atlantic blue marlin reaches sexual maturity at the age of two to four years.
Food / Feed Strategy: mackerel, dolphin fish, tuna, sardines, anchovies,herring, squid
Body Form or Style: a characteristic erectile dorsal finknown as a sail, which often stretches the entire length of the back. Another notable characteristic is the elongated bill, resembling that of the swordfish and other marlins. Rover Predator
Swim / Locomotion Style: thunniform Mouth Position: superior
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish
Title: saltwater/ marines Species #: 4
Common Name: white marlin
Scientific Name: tetrapterus albidus Kingdom: animalia Phylum: chordata
Class: actinopterygii Order: perciformes
Family: istiophoridae
Geography / Habitat: white marlin preferred habitat deep blue waters over 330 feet. The white marlin usually migrates to high latitudes in the warm season.
Life Strategy: They reproduce while in the subtropics; spawning in early summer in deep, oceanic waters.
Food / Feed Strategy: Prey items include a variety of fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods
Body Form or Style: Rover Predator Swim / Locomotion Style: thunniform Mouth Position: superior
Citation: http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/fish/saltwater/billfish/longbill-spearfish/
Title: saltwater/ marines Species #: 5
Common Name: swordfish
Scientific Name: xiphias gladius Kingdom: alnimalia Phylum: chordata
Class: actinopterygii Order: perciformes
Family: xiphiidae
Geography / Habitat: The swordfish is found in oceanic regions worldwide, including the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It is found in tropical, temperate, and sometimes cold waters
Life Strategy: The swordfish is a highly migratory species, generally moving to warmer waters in the winter and cooler waters in the summer.
Food / Feed Strategy: Swordfish feed mostly upon pelagic fishes usually at night. Swordfish's diet consists of fish such as mackerel, menhaden, bluefish, silver hake, herring, dolphin, butterfish, and occasionally squid.
Body Form or Style: Rover Predator Swim / Locomotion Style: : thunniform Mouth Position: superior
Citation: http://www.justsportfishing.com/swordfish.html
Title: saltwater/ marines Species #: 6
Common Name: blue fish
Scientific Name: anaoplopoma fimbria Kingdom: animalia Phylum: chrodata
Class: actinopterygii Order: perciformes
Family: pomatomidea
Geography / Habitat: Spent bluefish have been found off east central Florida, migrating north
Life Strategy: The Gulf Stream can carry fry spawned to the south of Cape Hatteras to the north, and eddies can spin off, carrying them into populations found off the coast of the mid-Atlantic, and the New England states.
Food / Feed Strategy: Depending on area and season, they favor menhaden and other sardine-like fish, jacks, weakfish, grunts, striped anchovies , shrimp and squid.
Body Form or Style: fusiform Swim / Locomotion Style: subcarangiform Mouth Position: terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish#Life_history
Title: saltwater/ marines Species #: 7
Common Name: Atlantic sharp-nose
Scientific Name: rhizoprionodon terraenovae Kingdom: animalia Phylum: chordate
Class: chondrichthyes Order: carcharhiniformes
Family: carcharhinidae
Geography / Habitat: the Atlantic sharp nose is coastal and even found in surf, shallow flats and streams. They are often in school
Life Strategy: Females give live-birth to a litter of 3-7 pups after a gestation period of 10-11 months.
Food / Feed Strategy: they feed in small fish and crustaceans.
Body Form or Style: Swim / Locomotion Style: Mouth Position:
Citation:
Title:Saltwater Species #:8
Common Name: Atlantic Cod
Scientific Name: Gadus morhua
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Gadiformes
Family:Gadidae
Geography / Habitat: North Carolina/Virginia Border Coast to Greenland Coast to Northern and Eastern Coast of Europe Coast.
Life Strategy:Live in schools
Food / Feed Strategy:Smaller fish
Body Form or Style: Small and oval Swim / Locomotion Style:Side to Side Mouth Position:Lower Central Face
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod
Title:Saltwater Species #:9
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Common Name: Atlantic bluefin tuna
Scientific Name:Thunnus thynnus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Scombridae
Geography / Habitat: Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North America and Northern Europe
Life Strategy: Live in schools with dolphins
Food / Feed Strategy: Small fish and invertebrates
Body Form or Style: Oval Shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Front and Center of the face
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_bluefin_tuna
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Title:Species #:10
Common Name: Atlantic herring
Scientific Name: Clupea harengus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Clupeiformes
Family:Clupeidae
Geography / Habitat: Gulf of Maine, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Irish Sea, Celtic Sea, English Channel, Strait of Denmark, and Bay of Biscay.
Life Strategy: Live in schools of several billions of over Atlantic Herring about 4.8 cubic kilometer of the Atlantic Ocean filled with this Herring
Food / Feed Strategy: Fish that are smaller than the Atlantic Herring
Body Form or Style: Long Oval Shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Front and Center of the Face
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_herring
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:11
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Common Name: Great white shark
Scientific Name: Carcharodon carcharias
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Lamniformes
Family:Lamnidae
Geography / Habitat: Everywhere, but not in the Arctic and Antarctic waters. Deep water
Life Strategy: Not well understood. Probably in a clan, something like a wolf pack.
Food / Feed Strategy: Fur Seals, Sea Lions, Cetaceans, other sharks, and bony fish
Body Form or Style: Long, Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Center and under the nose
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark#Ecology_and_behavior
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:12
Common Name: Mediterranean moray
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Scientific Name: Muraena helena
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Anguilliformes
Family:Muraenidae
Geography / Habitat: In the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Altlantic.
Life Strategy:Solitary and territorial eel
Food / Feed Strategy:Crayfish, dead fish, cephalopods, and live fish
Body Form or Style: Snake like appearance Swim / Locomotion Style:Snake like movement Mouth Position:Front and Center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_eel
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #: 13
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Common Name: Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
Scientific Name: Sphyrna lewini
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Sphyrnidae
Geography / Habitat: Off of the coast of every continent, but in the extreme north. Never in the deep waters of the
Life Strategy: Live in schools of other hammerhead sharks, not that aggressive
Food / Feed Strategy:They eat stingrays, fish, squid, octopus, and other sharks.
Body Form or Style: Like a normal shark with a hammerhead Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Under their hammerhead
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalloped_hammerhead
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:14
Common Name: OcellarisClownfish
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Scientific Name: Amphiprion ocellaris
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Pomacentridae
Geography / Habitat: Live in the Indo-Pacific region and the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia. Live in shallow waters, reefs, and lagoon
Life Strategy: Live in reef with other clownfish
Food / Feed Strategy: Small fish, plankton, and algae
Body Form or Style: Small oval shape Swim / Locomotion Style: side to side Mouth Position: Front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocellaris_clownfishTitle:SaltwaterSpecies #:15
Common Name: Greatbarracuda
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Scientific Name: Sphyraena barracuda
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Sphyraenidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in the deep ocean of the world
Life Strategy: Solitary fish, more or less, in habit
Food / Feed Strategy: Ambush of any fish
Body Form or Style: Long Needle Shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphyraena_barracuda
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:16
Common Name: Red lionfish
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Scientific Name: Pterois volitans
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Scorpaeniformes
Family:Scorpaenidae
Geography / Habitat: Indo-Pacific Ocean, Central and Western Pacific, Western Australian Coast
Life Strategy: Solitary Fish, only met with other fish for mating.
Food / Feed Strategy:Eat from Late Afternoon to Dawn. Eat about anything
Body Form or Style: Somewhat oval shape Swim / Locomotion Style: side to side Mouth Position: front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lionfish
Title: SaltwaterSpecies #:17
Common Name: Leafy Seadragon
Scientific Name: Phycodurus eques
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Syngnathiformes
Family:Syngnathidae
Geography / Habitat: From Kangaroo Island to Jurien Bay to Perth.
Life Strategy:Live with a pair for a time period for mating
Food / Feed Strategy: Mysida, Amphipoda, Plankton, and Larval Fish
Body Form or Style: Swim / Locomotion Style: Mouth Position: In the long mouth
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafy_sea_dragon
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:18
Common Name: Sockeye salmon
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Scientific Name: Oncorhynchus nerka
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Salmoniformes
Family:Salmonidae
Geography / Habitat: Northern Pacific and rivers. From Washington State to Northern Japan Islands
Life Strategy: Live in schools. Move in rivers for spawning in the Spring
Food / Feed Strategy: Eats zooplanktons in rivers and ocean
Body Form or Style: Long and Rectangle like Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side Mouth Position: Front and Center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockeye_Salmon
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:19
Common Name: Basking shark
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Scientific Name: Cetorhinus maximus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Lamniformes
Family:Cetorhinidae
Geography / Habitat: Just south of the Arctic Ocean and North of the Antarctic Ocean, sometimes cross the equators
Life Strategy: Live in small schools or completely alone
Food / Feed Strategy: Filter Feeders, planktons
Body Form or Style: A large version of a shark Swim / Locomotion Style: Move the tail side to side Mouth Position: front and below the eyes
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_shark
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:20
Common Name: Southern stingray
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Scientific Name: Dasyatis americana
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Myliobatiformes
Family:Dasyatidae
Geography / Habitat: from Brazil in the south, to the Virginia/North Carolina Border in the North, and the Gulf of Mexico
Life Strategy: Live in schools for migration, other than that, single or in a pair.
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat small crustacean, mollusk, bony fish, and lancelet
Body Form or Style: Disc form Swim / Locomotion Style: Flips it fins and move the tail side to side Mouth Position: On the bottom of the stingray
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_stingray
Title: Saltwater Species #:21
Common Name: live sharksucker
Scientific Name: Echeneis naucrates
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Echeneidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in tropical seas and near coral reefs
Life Strategy: A parasite for other rays, sea turtles, whales, and sharks
Food / Feed Strategy: Feed off the host, so basically any leftovers of the host
Body Form or Style: Long, needle shapes Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side Mouth Position: On top off his head near the front
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeneis_naucrates
Title: Saltwater Species #:22
Common Name: Humpback Anglerfish
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Scientific Name: Melanocetus johnsonii
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Lophiiformes
Family:Melanocetidae
Geography / Habitat: In the deepest parts of the ocean
Life Strategy: Male Humpback Anglerfish attaches to the female because of how small the male is
Food / Feed Strategy: Any fish that lures in by the angler
Body Form or Style: Big globe shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side Mouth Position: Front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_anglerfish
Title: Saltwater Species #:23
Common Name: Ocean Sunfish
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Scientific Name: Mola mola
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Tetraodontiformes
Family:Molidae
Geography / Habitat: Temperate and Tropical Waters of all oceans.
Life Strategy: Mostly alone, but sometimes see in pairs or large groups
Food / Feed Strategy: Jellyfish, eel grass, small fish, crustacean, small fish, and salps
Body Form or Style: Oval shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side Mouth Position: Front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish
Title: Saltwater Species #:24
Common Name: Mahi-mahi
Scientific Name: Coryphaena hippurus
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Coryphaenidae
Geography / Habitat: Off shore temperate, tropical, and sub tropical oceans worldwide
Life Strategy:
Food / Feed Strategy: Flying Fish, crab, squid, mackerel, and other forage fish
Body Form or Style: Arrow shape with dome face Swim / Locomotion Style: side to side Mouth Position: front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi_mahi
Title: Saltwater Species #:25
Common Name: Swordfish
Scientific Name: Xiphias gladius
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Xiphiidae
Geography / Habitat: Temperate oceans world wide
Life Strategy: Live alone, if with other fish, at least 33 feet apart
Food / Feed Strategy:mackerel, barracudinas, silver hake, rockfish, herring and lanternfishes by slashing them
Body Form or Style: oval shape with a point Swim / Locomotion Style: side to side Mouth Position: Under the big nose
Citation:
Title: Saltwater Species #:26
Common Name: Tiger Shark
Scientific Name: Galeocerdo cuvier
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Carcharhinidae
Geography / Habitat: Off of all the coast of every continent except for Europe and northern half of North America and Asia. Includes in the middle of the Pacific
Life Strategy: Solitary shark
Food / Feed Strategy: Habit to eat about anything at night
Body Form or Style: Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Front and under the nose
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_shark
Title: Saltwater Species #:27
Common Name: Atlantic blue marlin
Scientific Name: Makaira nigricans
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Istiophoridae
Geography / Habitat: Middle Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean
Life Strategy: Solitary Fish
Food / Feed Strategy: Zooplankton, drifting fish eggs, and larvae
Body Form or Style: Rectangle shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Under the nose
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_blue_marlin
Title: Saltwater Species #:28
Common Name: European plaice
Scientific Name: Pleuronectes platessa
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Pleuronectiformes
Family:Pleuronectidae
Geography / Habitat: Barents Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to the Irish Sea and off the coast of Greenland
Life Strategy:Solitary fish
Food / Feed Strategy:EatPolychaete, Crustacean, and Bivalvia at night
Body Form or Style: Like a circle plate Swim / Locomotion Style: Up and down Mouth Position: Front and on the side
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_plaice
Title: Saltwater Species #:29
Common Name: Angel Shark
Scientific Name: Squatina squatina
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Squatiniformes
Family:Squatinidae
Geography / Habitat: Off the coast of Western Europe, North Africa, Black Sea, Norway, Sweden, Demark, Great Britain, and Ireland.
Life Strategy:
Food / Feed Strategy: Ambush large flatfish
Body Form or Style: Kite shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side and up and down Mouth Position: Under the body
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatina_squatina
Title: Saltwater Species #:30
Common Name: Small-spotted catshark
Scientific Name: Scyliorhinus canicula
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Scyliorhinidae
Geography / Habitat: Norway to the British Isles to Senegal to the Mediterranean Sea
Life Strategy:Solitary Shark
Food / Feed Strategy: Crustaceans and worms
Body Form or Style: Long oval shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side Mouth Position: Under the nose and in the front
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-spotted_catshark
Title: Saltwater Species #:31
Common Name: Blue-Spotted Grouper
Scientific Name: Cephalopholis argus
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Serranidae
Geography / Habitat: Indo-Pacific Ocean region, and it is invasive species in other part of the world
Life Strategy: One male with a harem of females. The male will defend his harem
Food / Feed Strategy:Surgeonfish andCrustacean
Body Form or Style: Missile shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopholis_argus
Title: Saltwater Species #:32
Common Name: Bull shark
Scientific Name: Carcharhinus leucas
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Carcharhinidae
Geography / Habitat: Live off the Caribbean Islands, Northern Australia, Papua New Guinea, Southwest India, central west and east Africa, Persian Gulf, Southern and Eastern USA, and Mexico. Also live in the Amazon River and the coast of Brazil and Ecuador.
Life Strategy:Mostly a solitary shark, some hunt in pairs
Food / Feed Strategy:turtles, birds, dolphins, terrestrial mammals, crustaceans and echinoderms
Body Form or Style: oval shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side Mouth Position: under the nose
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BullsharkTitle: Saltwater Species #:33
Common Name: Round stingray
Scientific Name: Urobatis halleri
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Myliobatiformes
Family:Urotrygonidae
Geography / Habitat: Just North of Panama to of California
Life Strategy: Solitary Fish
Food / Feed Strategy:bivalve molluscs and polychaete worms
Body Form or Style: Disc Shape Swim / Locomotion Style: flips it fins Mouth Position: under the body
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urobatis_halleri
Title: Saltwater Species #:34
Common Name: Goldband fusilier
Scientific Name: Pterocaesio chrysozona
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Caesionidae
Geography / Habitat: West Pacific, Red Sea, East Africa, West India, and East Australia
Life Strategy: Live in massive schools
Food / Feed Strategy: Zooplankton by filter feeding
Body Form or Style: Rectangle shape Swim / Locomotion Style: side to side Mouth Position: front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldband_fusilier
Title: Saltwater Species #:35
Common Name: Coral trout
Scientific Name: Plectropomus leopardus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Serranidae
Geography / Habitat: Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Egypt
Life Strategy: Male fish lives in a territory, but females can enter the territory
Food / Feed Strategy: Smaller Coral Trout, parrot fish, and Damselfish
Body Form or Style: Oval shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to Side Mouth Position: Front and Center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_trout
Title: Saltwater Species #:36
Common Name: Lemon Shark
Scientific Name: Negaprion brevirostris
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Carcharhiniformes
Family:Carcharhinidae
Geography / Habitat: Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic and Pacific. Central West Africa, off the coast of the Caribbean Islands, Southern Brazil to New Jersey, Baja California, North West South America
Life Strategy: They have remoras attached to them. Bottom dweller, solitary to other sharks
Food / Feed Strategy: Boney fish with Electroreception
Body Form or Style: Rectangle shape Swim / Locomotion Style:Side to Side Mouth Position: Front and under the nose
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_shark
Title: Saltwater Species #:37
Common Name: Salmon shark
Scientific Name: Lamna ditropis
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Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Lamniformes
Family:Lamnidae
Geography / Habitat: North Pacific and the Bering Strait to the Sea of Japan
Life Strategy:Solitary Fish
Food / Feed Strategy: anything that bleeds
Body Form or Style: Rectangle Shape Swim / Locomotion Style: Side to side Mouth Position: Under the nose
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamna_ditropis
Title: Saltwater Species #:38
Common Name: Coho Salmon
Scientific Name: Oncorhynchus kisutch
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Family:
Geography / Habitat: From Hokkaido, Japan to Bering Strait near Alaska
Life Strategy: Live in schools
Food / Feed Strategy: Small fish, insects, and plankton.
Body Form or Style: Oval shape Swim / Locomotion Style: side to side Mouth Position: Front and center
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coho_salmon
Title: Saltwater Species #:39
Common Name: Northern Stargazer
Scientific Name: Astroscopus guttatus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Uranoscopidae
Geography / Habitat: North Carolina beaches to New York beaches
Life Strategy:Solitary fish live in the sandy beaches
Food / Feed Strategy: Ambush other fishes
Body Form or Style: dome face and Swim / Locomotion Style: side to side Mouth Position: Upper front part of the face
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Stargazer
Title: Saltwater Species #:40
Common Name: Atlantic torpedo
Scientific Name: Torpedo nobiliana
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Torpediniformes
Family:Torpedinidae
Geography / Habitat: On the coast north of Brazil to eastern Canada. South West Africa, North West Africa, Mediterranean Sea and the Irish Sea
Life Strategy:Solitary fish, only meet other Atlantic Torpedoes to mate
Food / Feed Strategy: Boney fish, crustaceans, and small cat shark
Body Form or Style: disc shape Swim / Locomotion Style: moves it fin Mouth Position: Bottom of the body
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_torpedo
Title: Saltwater Species #:41
Common Name: Common Tresher
Scientific Name: Alopias vulpinus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order:Lamniformes
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Family:Alopiidae
Geography / Habitat: Warm waters except for the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Also live in the North Sea, Irish Sea, Black Sea, English Channel, and Mediterranean Sea. Plus, just south of Japan
Life Strategy:
Food / Feed Strategy: Small schooling bony fishes. Also eat squids.
Body Form or Style: Fusiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Thunniform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_thresher
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:42
Common Name: White-spotted puffer
Scientific Name: Arothron hispidus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Tetraodontiformes
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Family:Tetraodontidae
Geography / Habitat: South East Atlantic Ocean, Indo Pacific, East Pacific. Found in very shallow waters like lagoon
Life Strategy: Night time solitary fish
Food / Feed Strategy:coralline algae, molluscs, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthids, crabs, polychaete worms, starfish, urchins, krill, silversides
Body Form or Style: Globiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Ostraciiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-spotted_puffer
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:43
Common Name: White seabass
Scientific Name:Atractoscion nobilis
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
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Family:Sciaenidae
Geography / Habitat: From Baja California to Juneau, Alaska in deep oceans
Life Strategy: Live in schools of other White Seabass
Food / Feed Strategy: Eats Anchovies and Sardines
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_seabass
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:44
Common Name: Greenland halibut
Scientific Name: Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Geography / Habitat: Both Pacific and Atlantic oceans in Polar Regions
Life Strategy: Live as a solitary fish
Food / Feed Strategy: Pelagic Organisms in the Bathyal zone
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Terminal Mouth Position: Carangiform
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_halibut
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:45
Common Name: Bigeye tuna
Scientific Name: Thunnus obesus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Scombridae
Geography / Habitat: Live in temperate and tropical ocean except for the Mediterranean Sea
Life Strategy: Live in schools of other Bideye Tuna
Food / Feed Strategy:Epipelagic and Mesopelagic species
Body Form or Style: Fusiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigeye_tuna
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:46
Common Name: Sohal surgeonfish
Scientific Name: Acanthurus sohal
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Acanthurus
Geography / Habitat: In the Red Sea at all reefs up to 90 ft.
Life Strategy: Aggressive to species
Food / Feed Strategy: Mostly vegetables, but eat flesh sometimes
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohal_surgeonfish
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:47
Common Name: Pacific Viperfish
Scientific Name: Chauliodus macouni
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
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Class: Actinopterygii Order:Stomiiformes
Family:Stomiidae
Geography / Habitat: Between 200-5000 meters deep Pacific Ocean during the day, night, less than 200 meter
Life Strategy: Solitary fish, only time with other members of the specie is to mate
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat crustacean and small fish
Body Form or Style: Filiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Anguiliform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_viperfish
Title:SaltwaterSpecies #:48
Common Name: Moses Sole
Scientific Name: Pardachirus marmoratus
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Pleuronectiformes
Family:Soleidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in the Red Sea, nowhere else
Life Strategy: N/A
Food / Feed Strategy: Fish that are smaller than it is
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: carangiform Mouth Position: terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Sole
Title: Saltwater Species #:49
Common Name: Lesser Weever
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Scientific Name: Echiichthys vipera
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Trachinidae
Geography / Habitat: In the Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, and Mediterranean Sea, in near beaches and at seabed and at the bottom, cover in sand
Life Strategy: Solitary fish
Food / Feed Strategy: N/A
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Crangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_weever
Title Saltwater Species #:50
Common Name: Striped burrfish
Scientific Name: Chilomycterus schoepfi
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Tetraodontiformes
Family:Diodontidae
Geography / Habitat: West Indies and Florida, sometime found near Cape Cod and NYC
Life Strategy: Mate in July near New Jersey. Solitary Fish
Food / Feed Strategy: oysters, barnacles, mussels, small crabs, and hermit crabs
Body Form or Style: Globiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Ostraciiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_burrfish
Title: Freshwater Species #:51
Common Name: Muskie
Scientific Name: Esox masquinongy
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Esociformes
Family:Esocidae
Geography / Habitat: The Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River to the Tennessee River Valley to the Hudson Bay
Life Strategy: Live in small schools in distinct territories
Food / Feed Strategy: Eats crayfish, frogs, ducklings, snakes, muskrats, mice, other small mammals, and small birds
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskellunge
Title: Freshwater Species #:52
Common Name: Northern Pike
Scientific Name: Esox lucius
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Esociformes
Family:Esocidae
Geography / Habitat: Majority of Canada, Midwest and Northeast USA, France to Western Russia, Sweden, and the British Isle
Life Strategy:Very solitary fish only come to mate with other members
Food / Feed Strategy:Ambush andeats mainly fish, occasion water voles, ducklings,frogs, insects, leeches, perch and sticklebacks
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiforms Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike
Title: FreshwaterSpecies #:53
Common Name: Smallmouth Bass
Scientific Name: Micropterus dolomieu
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Centrarchidae
Geography / Habitat: Rivers, lakes, streams, and reservoirs
Life Strategy: Live in small groups of other smallmouth bass
Food / Feed Strategy: Crayfish, insects, small fish, and zooplankton
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_mouth_bass
Title: FreshwaterSpecies #:54
Common Name: Largemouth bass
Scientific Name: Micropterus salmoides
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Centrarchidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida
Life Strategy: Solitary Fish
Food / Feed Strategy:small bait fish, scuds, small shrimp, insects,smaller fish , snails, crawfish , frogs, snakes, salamanders, bats, even small water birds, mammals, and baby alligators
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largemouth_Bass
Title: FreshwaterSpecies #:55
Common Name: Rock bass
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Scientific Name: Ambloplites rupestris
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Centrarchidae
Geography / Habitat: From Quebec to Saskatchewan and from to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Rive to the Mississippi River to Florida
Life Strategy: Live in small groups
Food / Feed Strategy: Smaller Fish, Crustaceans, and insects
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_bass
Title:Freshwater Species #:56
Common Name: Australian bass
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Scientific Name: Macquaria novemaculeata
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Percichthyidae
Geography / Habitat: Coastal Rivers and streams of Eastern Australia
Life Strategy: Mate every decade or two, live in segregated schools
Food / Feed Strategy: Insects, macro invertebrates, pawns, mice, frogs, lizards, and shrimps
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bassTitle:FreshwaterSpecies #:57
Common Name: Channel Catfish
Scientific Name: Ictalurus punctatus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Siluriformes
Family:Ictaluridae
Geography / Habitat: Nearctic Canada to Northern Mexico
Life Strategy:Live at the bottom of rivers
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat about anything, they’re omnivores
Body Form or Style: depressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Title:FreshwaterSpecies #:58
Common Name: Alligator gar
Scientific Name: Atractosteus spatula
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Lepisosteidae
Family:Lepisosteidae
Geography / Habitat: Southeast of the USA to Veracruz, Mexico
Life Strategy: Solitary Fish only come in contact with the same specie to mate
Food / Feed Strategy: Ambush any smaller fish
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atractosteus_spatula
Title:FreshwaterSpecies #:59
Common Name: Common carp
Scientific Name: Cyprinus carpio
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in Rivers in Europe, Eurasia, and Asia
Life Strategy: Live in small schools
Food / Feed Strategy: Insects, crustaceans, zooplanktons, and benthic worms
Body Form or Style: Compressiforms Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carp#Reproduction
Title:FreshwaterSpecies #:60
Common Name: Zebra Tilapias
Scientific Name: Tilapia buttikoferi
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Cichlid
Geography / Habitat: Western Africa, mostly in Liberia
Life Strategy: Aggressive fish
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat about anything
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_tilapia
Title: Freshwater Species #:
Common Name: Nile Tilapia
Scientific Name: Oreochromis niloticus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Cichlidae
Geography / Habitat: From Egypt to central Africa to Gambia. Intrude in Brazil
Life Strategy: Live in schools; grow up to 2 feet and 9.5 lbs
Food / Feed Strategy: Omnivores
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_tilapia
Title: Freshwater Species #:62
Common Name: New Zealand longfin eel
Scientific Name: Anguilla dieffenbachii
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Anguilliformes
Family:Anguillidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in rivers and go to breed in the ocean
Life Strategy: Breed in the ocean. Solitary, unless in mating season
Food / Feed Strategy: Omnivores, and an opportunistic feeder
Body Form or Style: Anguilliform Swim / Locomotion Style: Anguilliform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_longfin_eel
Title: Freshwater Species #:63
Common Name: Siberian sturgeon
Scientific Name: Acipenser baerii
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Acipenseriformes
Family:Acipenseridae
Geography / Habitat: Ob River, Yenisei River, Irtysh River, and Lake Baikal
Life Strategy: Live up 60 years old and 214 kg. Mating – Male age starting – 11-24 years Female – 20-28 years
Food / Feed Strategy: Eats benthic organism like crustaceans and larvae
Body Form or Style: Depressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Thunniform Mouth Position: Subterminal
Citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_sturgeon
Title: Freshwater Species #:64
Common Name: Guadalupe bass
Scientific Name: Micropterus treculii
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Centrarchidae
Geography / Habitat: Near the Edward’s Plateau in the San Marcos, Colorado, and Guadalupe rivers
Life Strategy: Up to 3 lbs. 11 oz., N/A
Food / Feed Strategy: Shad, insects, and Bluegill fish
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe_bass
Title: Freshwater Species #:65
Common Name: Murray Cod
Scientific Name: Maccullochella peelii
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Percichthyidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in the Murray River in southeast Australia
Life Strategy:Live up, probably, to 70 years. Mating starts young as 4 to 6 years old. Solitary
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat almost anything smaller than itself. Also an apex predator
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carngiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Cod
Title: Freshwater Species #:66
Common Name: Red-bellied piranha
Scientific Name: Pygocentrus nattereri
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Characiformes
Family:Characidae
Geography / Habitat: Amazon River Basin in Brazil to Paraguay with Parana and Essequibo River Basin
Life Strategy:Solitary, except in mating season in May and April when the male dig a nest for the female
Food / Feed Strategy: Fish, insects, crustaceans, and sometimes larger fish
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygocentrus_nattereriTitle: Freshwater Species #:67
Common Name: Golden shiner
Scientific Name: Notemigonus crysoleucas
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in the weedy part of lakes, ponds, ditches, sloughs, and rivers of North America
Life Strategy: Live in large shoals and reproduce depends on the region in North America
Food / Feed Strategy: Zooplankton, insects, algae, and plants
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notemigonus_crysoleucas
Title: Freshwater Species #:68
Common Name: Chinese Algae Eater
Scientific Name: Gyrinocheilus aymonieri
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Gyrinocheilus
Geography / Habitat: Cambodia, Yunnan Province of China, Laos, and Thailand
Life Strategy: N/A
Food / Feed Strategy: algae at the water bottom
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Subterminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_algae_eater
Title: Freshwater Species #:69
Common Name: Lake Trout
Scientific Name: Salvelinus namaycush
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Salmonidae
Family:Salmonidae
Geography / Habitat: Northern USA and Canada, and introduce in other parts of the world
Life Strategy: Live in schools. The heaviest Lake Trout is 102 lbs.
Food / Feed Strategy: Zooplankton
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout
Title: Freshwater Species #:70
Common Name: Bonytail Chub
Scientific Name: Gila elegans
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in rivers in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Life Strategy: Mate in May or June and July, depend on the region.
Food / Feed Strategy: Eatsmall fish, algae, plant debris, and terrestrial insects
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonytail_chub
Title: Freshwater Species #:71
Common Name: Yellow Perch
Scientific Name: Perca flavescens
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Percidae
Geography / Habitat: Eastern North America from the Rocky Mountain over. From Canada to the Southeast
Life Strategy:Live in schools for spawning and mating early as 1-3 years old
Food / Feed Strategy: Crayfish, Mysid Shrimp, Fish Eggs, invertebrates, and zooplanktons
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_perch
Title: Freshwater Species #:72
Common Name: Walleye
Scientific Name: Sander vitreus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Percidae
Geography / Habitat: Most parts of Canada and Northern USA.
Life Strategy: Start mating about 4-6 years old. Small groups
Food / Feed Strategy: Smaller Fish
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style:Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye
Title: Freshwater Species #:73
Common Name: Eurasian Ruffe
Scientific Name: Gymnocephalus cernuus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Percidae
Geography / Habitat: Temperate Europe and Northern Asia, intrude in the Great Lakes
Life Strategy: Mate as early as 1-3 years old. Spawns as much as of 130-200,000 eggs at once
Food / Feed Strategy: zoobenthos: chironomids small aquatic bugs and larvae
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffe
Title: Freshwater Species #:74
Common Name: Mekong giant catfish
Scientific Name: Pangasianodon gigas
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Siluriformes
Family:Pangasiidae
Geography / Habitat: In the Mekong Basin of Southeast Asia, bottom of the waterway
Life Strategy: N/A
Food / Feed Strategy: Anything on the bottom of river that edible
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position:Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong_giant_catfish
Title: Freshwater Species #:75
Common Name: Dabry's sturgeon
Scientific Name: Acipenser dabryanus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Acipenseriformes
Family:Acipenseridae
Geography / Habitat: Yangtze River, Qiantang River, Minjiang River and Pearl River.
Life Strategy: Mate 3 or 4 times in their life. The female spawns about 1 million eggs at one time.
Food / Feed Strategy:aquatic insects, larval, diatom and humic substances
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style:subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acipenser_dabryanus
Title: Freshwater Species #:76
Common Name: Longnose gar
Scientific Name: Lepisosteus osseus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Lepisosteiformes
Family:Lepisosteidae
Geography / Habitat: Mexico, the Great Lakes, Quebec, Southeast USA, and Mississippi River. Live shallow water in vegetation.
Life Strategy: Live up to 17-20 years old and weighs from 1.1 to 7.7 lbs.
Food / Feed Strategy: Ambush smaller fishes from shallow water in vegetation.
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepisosteus_osseus
Title: Freshwater Species #:77
Common Name: Shortnose Gar
Scientific Name: Lepisosteus platostomus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Lepisosteiformes
Family:Lepisosteidae
Geography / Habitat: Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri River, Louisiana, Alabama, and Texas. Live in vegetation of the waterways.
Life Strategy: Mate during April to June in 16-20C. Solitary fish
Food / Feed Strategy: Ambush smaller fish, crayfish, insects, and invertebrates
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepisosteus_platostomus
Title: Freshwater Species #:78
Common Name: Tench
Scientific Name: Tinca tinca
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: Western Europe, the British Isles, Eurasia, Lake Baikal, Ob and Yenisei Rivers. Live in muddy rivers within vegetations
Life Strategy: Can grow very fast, .25 lbs. in the first year after being born.
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat snails, pea clams, and chironomidae at night
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tench
Title: Freshwater Species #:79
Common Name: Warmouth
Scientific Name: Lepomis gulosus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Centrarchidae
Geography / Habitat: Southern Mississippi River, South Canada, Chesapeake Bay, Rio Grande, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean.
Life Strategy: Mate during May to July. Males will defend eggs till hatch in 5 days. Live about 3-8 years old
Food / Feed Strategy: Insects, crayfish, and other fishes
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth
Title: Freshwater Species #:80
Common Name: Redbreast Sunfish
Scientific Name: Lepomis auritus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Centrarchidae
Geography / Habitat: Eastern Canada and United States. Lived in Vegetated and rocky waterways
Life Strategy: Mate in the fall in 16-21C. Males will guard the eggs and possible after they hatch.
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat snails, insects, and other small invertebrates
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbreast_sunfish
Title: Freshwater Species #:
Common Name: Flier
Scientific Name: Centrarchus macropterus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Centrarchidae
Geography / Habitat: From southern Illinois to Texas to the Potomac River. Live in muddy bottom parts of the body of water
Life Strategy: Live up to 5 years and 1 foot in length. Weigh up 19 oz.
Food / Feed Strategy: Smaller animals at the bottom of water
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrarchus
Title: Freshwater Species #:82
Common Name: Chinese paddlefish
Scientific Name: Psephurus gladius
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Acipenseriformes
Family:Polyodontidae
Geography / Habitat: Middle or lower part of the Yangtze River
Life Strategy: Age of 7 or 8 years old will start mating. Up to 2 meters and weighs up to 25 kg
Food / Feed Strategy: Other fishes, crabs, and crayfish
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Title: Freshwater Species #:83
Common Name: American Paddlefish
Scientific Name: Polyodon spathula
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Acipenseriformes
Family:Polyodontidae
Geography / Habitat: In the Great Lakes of the Midwest and up to Canada
Life Strategy: Up to 7 feet and 220 lbs.
Food / Feed Strategy: Zooplankton, bivalvia, and crustaceans.
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Paddlefish
Title: Freshwater Species #:84
Common Name: Wels catfish
Scientific Name: Silurus glanis
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Siluriformes
Family:Siluridae
Geography / Habitat: Central, Southern, Eastern Europe in slow moving and deep fresh and brackish water
Life Strategy: Almost to 10 feet and 330 lbs. Females can produce 30000 eggs
Food / Feed Strategy:Eatsannelid worms, gastropods, insects, crustaceans, and fish including other wels catfishes, and the larger ones eat aquatic birds, frogs, mice, and rats
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wels_catfish
Title: Freshwater Species #:85
Common Name: Gilt Darter
Scientific Name: Percina evides
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order:Perciformes
Family:Percidae
Geography / Habitat: From Mississippi River to Northern Alabama to New York to Northern Arkansas.
Life Strategy: From 70-80mm long. Females produce 300-400 eggs
Food / Feed Strategy: N/A
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percina_evides
Title: Freshwater Species #:86
Common Name: White Bass
Scientific Name: Morone chrysops
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Moronidae
Geography / Habitat: Widely across the Midwest and small amount in some rivers near by like the Arkansas River, Lake Erie, and Lake Poinsett
Life Strategy: They mate during Mid-March to Late May. They spawn between 242,000 to 933,000 eggs in one season
Food / Feed Strategy: calanoid copepods, cyclopoid copepods, daphnia, and leptodora by sight
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_bass
Title: Freshwater Species #:87
Common Name: Lake sturgeon
Scientific Name: Acipenser fulvescens
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Acipenseriformes
Family: Acipenseridae
Geography / Habitat: Near the bottoms of rivers and lakes in North America
Life Strategy: Grew up to 9 feet and 336 lbs.
Food / Feed Strategy: Insects, larvae, and Small Fishes by it taste buds near the mouth
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Subterminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_sturgeon
Title: Freshwater Species #:88
Common Name: Blue Catfish
Scientific Name: Ictalurus furcatus
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Siluriformes
Family: Ictaluridae
Geography / Habitat: Near the bottom of the Mississippi River, Lake Marion, Lake Moultries, James River, Powerton Lake, and Santee Cooper
Life Strategy: Grow up 65 inches and 150 lbs.
Food / Feed Strategy: Crayfish, mussels, frogs, and other aquatic animals
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_catfish
Title: Freshwater Species #:89
Common Name: Sauger
Scientific Name: Sander canadensis
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae
Geography / Habitat: West of Appalachian Mountain from Southern Canada to south and west
Life Strategy: Start mating from 2-5 years old. Never travel from 10 to 600 km. from where they were the birth place.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat invertebrates and small fishes
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauger
Title: Freshwater Species #:90
Common Name: Bigmouth Buffalo
Scientific Name: Ictiobus cyprinellus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Catostomidae
Geography / Habitat: Live from the Great Lake to the Southeast of the United States. They can live in low dissolved oxygen water. Also live in some parts of Canada
Life Strategy: Spawn in the spring months of April to June. They can mate as young as 2 years. They can live up to 20 years old
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat cladocera, copepods, algae, Chironomidae, ostracods, and other insect
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigmouth_buffalo
Title: Freshwater Species #:91
Common Name: Zebrafish
Scientific Name: Danio rerio
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: streams in southeastern Himalayas. Also live in the Ganges River. They live in slow moving waters
Life Strategy: They spawn every 2-3 days. They usually live up to 2-3 years, sometimes 5 years
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat zooplankton, insects, insect larvae, and phytoplankton
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danio_rerio
Title: Freshwater Species #:92
Common Name: sheatfishes
Scientific Name: Wallago attu
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Siluridae
Family: Wallago
Geography / Habitat: They live in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. They live in lakes and rivers
Life Strategy: They can live up to 8 feet long
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat frogs, smaller fish, and in legend, small ducks, dogs, and small childern
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallago_attu
Title: Freshwater Species #:93
Common Name: Silver carp
Scientific Name: Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in North and Northeast Asia.
Life Strategy: N/A
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat planktons by filter feeding
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_carp Title: Freshwater Species #:94
Common Name: Giant freshwater stingray
Scientific Name: (Himantura chaophraya
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Dasyatidae
Geography / Habitat: They live in Southeast Asia like Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. They live in the bottom of the body of water
Life Strategy: Weigh up to just over a half a ton. Males can grow up to 3.6 ft wide
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat benthic fishes and invertebrates.
Body Form or Style: Depressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Thugniform Mouth Position: Subterminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_freshwater_stingray
Title: Freshwater Species #:95
Common Name: Brook Trout
Scientific Name:
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Salmonidae
Family: Salmonidae
Geography / Habitat: In the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to Canada to Iowa.They live in very heavily vegegation
Life Strategy: Female may be spawn by one or more male. The female lays the eggs and the eggs will hatch between 95-100 days
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat crustaceans, frogs and other amphibians, insects, molluscs, smaller fish, invertebrates, and even small aquatic mammals. They ambush them
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_trout
Title: Freshwater Species #: 96
Common Name: Koi
Scientific Name: Cyprinus carpio haematopterus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in ponds and rivers for decoration purpose. Live in the middle of the body of water.
Life Strategy: Live in small schools. They can live depending on the treatment by the owners. They are breed for decoration purpose only
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat pellets, peas, lettuce, and watermelons
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koi
Title: Freshwater Species #:97
Common Name: Golden perch
Scientific Name: Macquaria ambigua
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Percichthyidae
Geography / Habitat: They live in the Murray and Darling River at the
Life Strategy: Females live longer and bigger than males. Females spawn half a million eggs. The eggs will hatch in a day to day and half. The longest record living Golden Perch is 26 years old
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat yabbies, shrimp, frogs, small fish and aquatic invertebrates.
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_perch
Title: Freshwater Species #:98
Common Name: Leopard bush fish
Scientific Name: Ctenopoma acutirostre
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Anabantidae
Geography / Habitat: In the Congo River basin and live all types of freshwater body of water
Life Strategy: Can grow up to 8 to 20 cm long in several years
Food / Feed Strategy: Anything that can fit in its mouth
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenopoma_acutirostreTitle: Freshwater Species #:99
Common Name: Clown loach
Scientific Name: Chromobotia macracanthus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cobitidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in Sumatra and Borneo in clear streams for 4-5 months and brackish waters for 7-8 months
Life Strategy: Can grow as long as 7 to 16 inches. Live in 77-86°F
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat worms, brine shrimp, small snails
Body Form or Style: Compressiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botia_macracanthus
Title: Freshwater Species #:100
Common Name: Grass Crap
Scientific Name: Ctenopharyngodon idella
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Geography / Habitat: lakes, ponds, pools and backwaters of large rivers. Cultivated in China, Introduced in Europe, North America, and New Zealand
Life Strategy: Live as old as 9 – 11 years old, heavy as 40 lbs, 3.9 ft long
Food / Feed Strategy: Eat mostly aquatic plants, sometime eats detritus, invertebrates, and insects
Body Form or Style: Sagittiform Swim / Locomotion Style: Subcarangiform Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_carp Title: Saltwater Invertebrates Species #: 101
Common Name: Bairdi Crab
Scientific Name: Chionoecetes bairdi
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Oregoniidae
Geography / Habitat: Bottom of the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska
Life Strategy: Live in schools. Live up to a decade and 1 to 4 lbs. Eggs will hatch in about a year
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat plankton that live at the bottom of Bering Sea
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionoecetes_bairdi
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 102
Common Name: Snow Crab
Scientific Name: Chionoecetes opilio
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Oregoniidae
Geography / Habitat: Shelf depth at Northwest Atlantic and North Pacific
Life Strategy: Live in schools. They can grow as big as 5.9 inches.
Food / Feed Strategy: crustaceans, bivalves, brittle stars, polychaetes, and even phytobenthos and foraminiferans
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionoecetes_opilio
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 103
Common Name: Turtle Crab
Scientific Name: Cryptolithodes sitchensis
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Lithodidae
Geography / Habitat: Coastal regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. The range is from Alaska to southern California. They live in 56 ft in the intertidal zone
Life Strategy: They live alone.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat Coralline algae
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptolithodes_sitchensis
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 104
Common Name: Red crab
Scientific Name: Paralithodes camtschaticus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Lithodidae
Geography / Habitat: the live at the bottom of the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska
Life Strategy: They live a large school of other red crabs. Their leg span can grow as big as 5.9 ft. Their carapace can be big as 11 in.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat planktons at the bottom of the Bering Sea
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralithodes_camtschaticus
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 105
Common Name: Blue King Crab
Scientific Name: Paralithodes platypus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Lithodidae
Geography / Habitat: They live near St. Matthew Island, the Pribilof Islands, and the Diomede Islands, Alaska
Life Strategy: They live in schools. They reproduce in Late March to Early May
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat planktons at the bottom of the sea.
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralithodes_platypus
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 106
Common Name: Sand Fiddler Crab
Scientific Name: Uca pugilator
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Ocypodidae
Geography / Habitat: East coast of the United States and the West coast of Africa
Life Strategy: Found in the thousands to millions in a marshes and beaches.
Food / Feed Strategy: They salvage algae, microbes, fungus, or other decaying detritus
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uca_pugilator
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 107
Common Name: Atlantic Horseshoe Crab
Scientific Name: Limulus polyphemus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Merostomata Order: Xiphosura
Family: Limulidae
Geography / Habitat: Continental shelf in the winter, the shore in the late spring. Gulf of Mexico to the Northern US Coast
Life Strategy: Mate in late spring, but go to the continental shelf in the winter
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat mollusks, annelid worms, other benthic invertebrates, and bits of fish
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limulus_polyphemus
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 108
Common Name: American lobster
Scientific Name: Homarus americanus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Nephropidae
Geography / Habitat: From Labrador Island to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. At the bottom of the Atlantic
Life Strategy: Mating after the molting period, which takes 10-20 days long.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat planktons at the bottom of the Atlantic
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_lobster
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 109
Common Name: Common Octopus
Scientific Name: Octopus vulgaris Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopod Order: Octopoda
Family: Octopodidae
Geography / Habitat: They live from Mediterranean Sea and the southern coast of England to at least Senegal in Africa, the Azores, Canary Islands, and Cape Verde Islands
Life Strategy: They can grow as big as 25 cm long.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat crabs, crayfish, and bivalve mollusks
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Octopus
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 110
Common Name: Giant Pacific Octopus
Scientific Name: Enteroctopus dofleini
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopod Order: Octopoda
Family: Octopodidae
Geography / Habitat: They live in the deep parts of the Coastal regions of the Northern Pacific ocean
Life Strategy: They can grow up to 14 ft and 33 lbs. They can blend in if threaten by something
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat shrimp, crabs, scallops, abalone, clams, and fish.
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroctopus_dofleini
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 111
Common Name: European squid
Scientific Name: Loligo vulgaris
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopod Order: Teuthida
Family: Loliginidae
Geography / Habitat: Live close to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea, Irish Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from the North Sea to the Gulf of Guinea.
Life Strategy: Females live up to 2 years and males live up to 3 years. Females can produce up to 20000 small eggs in tubes of ten eggs each.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat fish, crustaceans, and other European Squid
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Squid
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 112
Common Name: Brown Crab
Scientific Name: Cancer pagurus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Cancridae
Geography / Habitat: Live in the bottom of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean
Life Strategy: Live in schools of other brown crabs. They mate in the winter and produce a quarter of million to 3 million eggs
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat other crustaceans like squat lobster and mollusks by stalking or ambush.
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_crab
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 113
Common Name: Blue Mussels
Scientific Name: Mytilus edulis
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia Order: Mytiloida
Family: Mytilidae
Geography / Habitat: They live in the intertidal zone of most coastal regions
Life Strategy: The male send the sperm in the water to find the eggs. Only 1% will survive to reach the eggs
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat any some animal that can pass through their filter in their mouth
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_mussel
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 114
Common Name: Humboldt Squid
Scientific Name: Dosidicus gigas
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopod Order: Teuthida
Family: Ommastrephidae
Geography / Habitat: Eastern Pacific Ocean, as deep as 660 to 2300 ft. They live from Alaska in the north to South America in the south
Life Strategy: Live in shoals up to 1200. They can swim up to 15 mph. They can think a lot better than marine species
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat small fish, crustaceans, cephalopods, and copepods by ambush. Sometime eat each other
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbolt_Squid
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 115
Common Name: European Lobster
Scientific Name: Homarus gammarus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Nephropidae
Geography / Habitat: They live in the Black and Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean at the bottom of them.
Life Strategy: They mate after molting and in the summer time. They mate at 3.1 to 3.3 inch or smaller.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat crabs, molluscs, sea urchins, starfish and polychaete worms
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homarus_gammarus
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 116
Common Name: giant tiger prawn
Scientific Name: Penaeus monodon
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Penaeidae
Geography / Habitat: from east coast of Africa to Northern Australia to Japan at the bottom of the ocean
Life Strategy: From 8-12 inches long and weighing from 3.5 to 11 ounces. Females are the upper end and the males at the lower end.
Food / Feed Strategy: N/A
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penaeus_monodon
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 117
Common Name: Blue Lobster
Scientific Name: Panulirus versicolor
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Palinuridae
Geography / Habitat: Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf in the intertidal zones of the coastal
Life Strategy: Grow up to a foot to 16 inches long. Solitary lobster and live in small caves, only meet other Blue Lobsters for mating
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat carrions, crustaceans, arthropods, and small fishes
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panulirus_versicolor
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #:118
Common Name: Calico Crab
Scientific Name: Hepatus epheliticus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Aethridae
Geography / Habitat: Shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean from Chesapeake Bay to Dominica Republic
Life Strategy: They have 3 inch wide shell. Live in the intertidal zone of 151 feet deep.
Food / Feed Strategy: N/A
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatus_epheliticus
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 119
Common Name: ?
Scientific Name: Mictyris longicarpus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Order:
Family:
Geography / Habitat: Intertidal zone of beaches from Singapore to Bay of Bengals to Australia
Life Strategy: Buried them self in the beach in high tide. Come out with the rest of the “Army” of other Mictyris longicarpus
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat detritus, diatom, gastropoda eggs, and Nematode
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictyris_longicarpus
Title: Saltwater invertebrate Species #: 120
Common Name: red rock crab
Scientific Name: Grapsus grapsus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Grapsidae
Geography / Habitat: From the coast of Mexico in the North to Northern Peru in the south.
Life Strategy: Grew up to 3.1 inches. Adult coloring varies, but the youth have black or dark brown for lava
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat algae, sometime eat plants and dead animals
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapsus_grapsus
Title: Freshwater invertebrate Species #: 121
Common Name: Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish
Scientific Name: Astacopsis gouldi
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Parastacidae
Geography / Habitat: Tasmanian Rivers north to the Bass Strait except for Tamar. They live at the bottom of the body of waters
Life Strategy: One male with several females in a harem. Live up to 40 years old. They can live in waters with high oxygen content
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat rotting wood, fish flesh, leaves, and insects.
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_giant_freshwater_crayfish
Title: Freshwater invertebrate Species #: 122
Common Name: white-clawed crayfish
Scientific Name: Austropotamobius pallipes
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Astacidae
Geography / Habitat: From the Balkan Peninsula to Spain to the British Isles. They live at the banks of rivers in tree trunks and rocks.
Life Strategy: They live in very acidic body of waters. They grow up to 5 inches long.
Food / Feed Strategy: They forage for food near rocks and tree trunks
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austropotamobius_pallipes
Title: Freshwater invertebrate Species #: 123
Common Name: Common yabby
Scientific Name: Cherax destructor
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda
Family: Parastacidae
Geography / Habitat: Live in all of Australia at the bottom of the waters.
Life Strategy: They live in 61 Degree Fahrenheit. They live in burrows.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat algae, fishes, and small animals at night
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherax_destructor
Title: Freshwater invertebrate Species #: 124
Common Name: tadpole shrimp
Scientific Name: Triops cancriformis
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Order: doesn’t show
Family:
Geography / Habitat: They live in Northern Italy, United Kingdom, France, and Most of Eastern Europe
Life Strategy: They mature in about two weeks after hatching from the eggs. The females have both sexual organs due to lack of males in population. They can grow up to 4.3 inches long.
Food / Feed Strategy: N/A
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops_cancriformis
Title: Freshwater invertebrate Species #: 125
Common Name: faucet snail
Scientific Name: Bithynia tentaculata Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda Order: doesn’t show
Family: Bithyniidae
Geography / Habitat: They live in Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Poland, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Slovakia, British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland. They prefer slow moving body of waters Commonly found in freshwater ponds, shallow lakes, and canals. This species is found on the substrate in fall and winter
Life Strategy: They live for 17-39 months long. They can produce as much as 347 eggs at once in 1-77 eggs groups
Food / Feed Strategy: They filter algae and larvae.
Body Form or Style: N/A Swim / Locomotion Style: N/A Mouth Position: N/A Citation: http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=987