what does a swordfish look like?
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Basic info can be seen here:\nhttp://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/sword.html\n\nMore comprehensive info, with pictures here:\nhttp://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Swordfish/Swordfish.html\n\nCheers!
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no way man!  i believe in swordfish!
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Weakfish and spotted seatrout - spotted seatrout has round spots, weakfish spots are not round. Weakfish has a black margin on the tip of the tongue and yellow inside the mouth, spotted seatrout do not have either.
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Lemon sharks out of the water are pale yellow, thus since lemons are yellow, the name "lemon shark". They also can be a light brown or mustard color which fades to a lemon yellow or white on the underside.\n\nThey reach 8 feet or 2.5 meters in length, feed on fish, rays, crustaceans, and mollusks such as squid or octopi. Their maximum length is believed to be 11 feet, but 8 is more common. It survives well in captivity. Active both day and night in shallow waters, mangrove swamps with very little oxygen in the water. It's range is primarily the Indian Ocean coastal.
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The Cookie-cutter Shark is named after the neat cookie-shaped wounds that it leaves on the bodies of larger fishes (Goblin Shark, Escolar) and marine mammals.\n\n This species has a small cigar-shaped body (up to about 50 cm in length), a conical snout and two low, spineless dorsal fins positioned posteriorly on the body. It is dark brown dorsally, lighter below, and has a distinct dark collar around the gill region (visible in the middle image). The entire ventral surface, with the exception of the dark collar, is covered in a dense network of tiny photophores (light producing organs), which in life produce an even greenish glow. The genus name Isistius is derived from Isis, the Egyptian goddess of light.\nCookie-cutter Shark - anterior part of body\nCookie-cutter Shark - anterior part of body. Australian Museum Fish Collection (AMS I.28748-004).Photo: S. Humphreys © Australian Museum.\n\nThis species has small, erect teeth in the upper jaw and large triangular teeth in the lower jaw. The Cookie-cutter Shark attaches itself to its prey with its suctorial lips, and then spins to cut out a cookie-shaped plug of flesh from the larger animal.\n\nA recent theory (Widder, 1998) suggests that the feeding behaviour of the Cookie-cutter Shark may be even stranger than originally thought. It is counterilluminated, a dark colour above and lighter below (due to the light organs).\nCookie-cutter Shark - whole body\nCookie-cutter Shark - whole body. Australian Museum Fish Collection (AMS I.28748-004). Photo: S. Humphreys © Australian Museum.\n\nThe dark collar is not illuminated, so would be silhouetted against the light from above. The theory suggests that this dark area would look like a small fish from below, and the Cookie-cutter Shark would wait for a larger predator to attack the "small fish". As the predator is about to attack, the Cookie-cutter Shark would turn and attack the attacker. The forward motion of the larger animal may even assist the Cookie-cutter Shark in removing the plug of flesh.\nCookie-cutter Shark - dorsal view\nCookie-cutter Shark - dorsal view. Australian Museum Fish Collection (AMS I.28748-004).Photo: S. Humphreys © Australian Museum.\n\nIn addition to plugs of flesh from larger animals, the Cookie-cutter Shark is also known to eat squid. There are even reports of this species leaving crater-marks on the sonar domes of nuclear submarines (more information).\n\nCookie-cutter Sharks are recorded from scattered localities around the world. In Australia they have been recorded from Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia. They vertically migrate, being found in deep water, probably below 1000 m during the day, and migrating into surface waters at night.
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probably. scientists have drawn them, but it isn't widely known what it looks like.
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This is a skate fish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate_%28fish%29
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Blue tangs do not have any such growth.  However, young unicorn tangs can look much like blue tangs so the aquarium may have mislabeled the fish.  As the unicorn tang grows, a protuberance appears and grows above its eyes.  In the early stages of this growth, the protuberance may look like fungal growth.  The link below has a picture of a unicorn fish with an extensive protuberance.  If the growth was anywhere other than directly above the eyes, as in the linked picture, then it was a parasite which may victimize tangs to the exclusion of other fish.  Many species and genuses of tropical fish have parasites that infect them and them alone - tangs are not known to be particularly parasite prone and are considered to be fairly hardy aquarium fish.
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Maverick, catfish are fish and do not have scales!\n\nAnyway, I've already answered the exact same question (did you lose the other one?), so I'll quote myself:\n\nTuna fish and their relatives belong to the family Scombridae, a group that is extremely specialized as high-speed swimmers, and they have very reduced scales that make their body profiles even more hydrodynamic. \nSome scombrids have small to medium-sized scales, and others have a "scaly corselet" (large thick scales in an area behind the head and around the pectoral fins, and the rest of the body naked or covered with tiny scales). \nThe bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) has such a corselet, and the scales on most of the body are so small that the skin appears smooth.
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well, i don't know my shells and i've never been to the carribean, but perhaps this site will help?\nhttp://www.sanibelshellers.com/catselect.asp\n\ncould it be a Cypraeidae?\n\nhave a look and see what you think.
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Apparently a kind of sea bass.\n\nSee photo below.  It might also be called a "black sea bass", found near Catalina island off California.\n\nEr ... it's also a kind of drum (Catalina brand bass drum) but  since this is in the Biology category, I think you want the fish  :)
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invertabrates are sea creatures that done exactly look like creatures as the resemble plants to name a few,anomemes,feather dusters,(looks like a plant but feeds off of nutuants in the water) and the starfish is another type of invertebraete live coral also is in this class now you know where to start you reserch
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GIANT HEART COCKLE, Dinocardium robustum.\n\nFor a photo see:\nhttp://www.gulfspecimen.org/images/M-750b-2.gif
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dolphin and pike (Osteichthyes) have bones; sea cucumber and flounder do not have true bones they are cartelagenous fish (Chondrichthyes)  the sea cucumber has no skeletal system.
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oarfish are very weird and interesting fish.  one species is fantastically long and skinny, up to 50 feet long (and may be the source of many stories about sea serpents).\n\nvery little is know about them, and it wasn't until a few years ago that anyone actually managed to film one alive.\n\nthey feed primarily on zooplankton, straining little copepods and other little yummies from the water.  they might also take small fish, and jellyfish when they can.\n\nlarval and juvenile oarfish are sometimes found floating near the surface, basically part of the zooplankton themselves.  they probably don't have much interaction with the adults.  the adults are solitary, and don't have much interaction with each other either.\n\nthey are probably food for any number of pelagic predators like big sharks, but that's about it for interactivity.
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Coelacanths (genus Latimeria) are sarcopterygian fishes, and as such their body is covered by cosmoid scales; these are rather thick, with a layer of cosmine (a type of dentine) and layers of spongy and laminar bone underneath. Morphologically speaking these scales are _cycloid_ (they have concentric grooves).
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Hmm, I'm gonna guess, Sounds to me like a limpet, or a sea snail can be in that category. just a guess tho, I live on the beach lol