Pelagic-oceanic fish - Fish living in the pelagic-oceanic environment

Order Anguilliformes

Thalassenchelys coheni

Saurenchelys stylura

Thalassenchelys foliaceus

Synaphobranchus dolichorhynchus

Thread eel

Order Atheriniformes

Querimana silverside

Order Aulopiformes

Lestidiops cadenati

Barracudina

Scopelosaurus ahlstromi - Scopelosaurus ahlstromi is a waryfish of the family Notosudidae, found in all oceans, at depths of down to 500 m.

Lestidiops distans

Hubb's pearleye

Macroparalepis brevis

Lestidiops bathyopteryx

Stemonosudis elongata

Scopelosaurus hoedti

Lestidiops neles

Rosenblattichthys nemotoi

Paralepis brevirostris

Duckbill barracudina

Order Beloniformes

Margined flyingfish

Black wing flyingfish

Shoulderspot needlefish

Short-beaked garfish

Slender halfbeak

Whitetip flyingfish

Guinean flyingfish

Agujon needlefish

Sailor flyingfish

Coromandel flyingfish

Keeltail needlefish

Pharao flyingfish

Saury

Stained flyingfish

Cheilopogon doederleinii

Mirrorwing flyingfish - Mirrorwing flyingfish have 10-12 soft rays on their dorsal fins and 11-13 rays on their anal fins.

Balao

Cape needlefish

Saury

African flyingfish

Hound needlefish - While the houndfish has no spines, its dorsal fin has 21–25 soft rays, and its anal fin has 19–22.

Glider flyingfish

Banded flyingfish

Pacific saury - It is known as sanma in Japanese, kongchi in Korean, qiu dao yu in Chinese, and saira in Russian.

Cheilopogon ventralis

Barbel flyingfish

Bandwing flyingfish

Tylosurus acus imperialis

Gyre flyingfish

Whitespot flyingfish

Platybelone argalus lovii

Dwarf saury

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus japonicus

Agujon needlefish

Order Carcharhiniformes

Blue whaler shark - The blue shark is the most widely distrubted animal in the world.

Dwarf catshark - Asymbolus pallidus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found only off West Australia, at depths of between 200 and 400 m.

Holohalaelurus grennian - The Holohalaelurus grennian is a type of shark in the Western Indian Ocean waters near Kenya.

Cephaloscyllium parvum

Asymbolus rubiginosus - Asymbolus rubiginosus is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found only off West Australia, at depths of between 25 and 540 m.

Proscyllium magnificum

Western spotted catshark - Reproduction is oviparous.

Carcharhinus macrops

Holohalaelurus favus - The Holohalaelurus favus is a type of shark in the Western Indian Ocean areas near South Africa.

Gulf smoothhound - Reproduction is Ovoviviparous.

Northern river shark - Northern river sharks are likely piscivorous.

Variegated catshark - The Australian spotted catshark, Asymbolus analis, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found only around Australia between latitudes 32° S and 38° S, at depths of between 10 and 180 m.

Order Cetomimiformes

Cetomimoides parri

Order Clupeiformes

Key anchovy

Marini's anchovy

Order Gadiformes

Codlet

North Pacific hake - Its length is about 3 ft and they live up to 15 years.

Lyconus pinnatus

Silvery cod

Ahuru - The ahuru is a small deepwater fish, the only fish of the genus Auchenoceros, found on the east coast of New Zealand.

Svetovidovia lucullus

Lyconodes argenteus

Order Lamniformes

Hoe-mother - This shark is called the basking shark because it is most often observed when feeding at the surface and appears to be basking in the warmer water there.

Porbeagle - Adult salmon sharks are medium grey to black over most of the body, with a white underside with darker blotches.

Crocodile shark - The crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai, is a species of shark and the only member of the family Pseudocarchariidae.

Great white shark - The best selling novel Jaws and the subsequent film by Steven Spielberg provided the great white shark with the image of a "man eater" in the public mind.

Beaumaris shark - The porbeagle is a species of mackerel shark in the family Lamnidae, distributed widely in the cold and temperate marine waters of the North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere.

Megamouth shark - The appearance of the megamouth is distinctive, but little else is known about it.

Bigeye sand tiger - The bigeye sand tiger, Odontaspis noronhai, is a species of sand shark, family Odontaspididae, possibly found worldwide at depths of 60–1,000 m .

Order Lampriformes

Regalecus kinoi

Trachipterus ishikawae

Whiptail ribbonfish

Pacific king-of-salmon - King-of-the-salmon, Trachipterus altivelis, is a species of ribbonfish in the family Trachipteridae.

Streamer fish

Southern opah

King of herrings

Tapertail ribbonfish

Tapertail

Order Myctophiformes

Diaphus diadematus

Nannobrachium isaacsi

Protomyctophum beckeri

Lanternfish

Diogenichthys panurgus

Diaphus rivatoni

Diaphus impostor

Lanternfish

Large scale lantern fish

Myctophum lunatum

Lanternfish

Southern lanternfish

Diaphus vanhoeffeni

Diaphus malayanus

Mexican lampfish

Lantern fish

California flashlightfish

Andre's lanternfish

Glacial lanternfish

Metelectrona herwigi

Diaphus signatus

Diaphus kapalae

Diaphus danae

Myctophum ovcharovi

Reverse gland lanternfish

Bolinichthys pyrsobolus

Giant lampfish

Diaphus wisneri

Diaphus regani

Lanternfish

Diaphus gigas

Protomyctophum subparallelum - Protomyctophum subparallelum is a lanternfish in the family Myctophidae, found circumglobally in the southern hemisphere south of about 30° S, in deep water.

Bigfin lanternfish

Centrobranchus brevirostris

Lamp fish

Hector's lanternfish - It is a widespread marine fish, known from shallow tropical waters in the south-eastern Atlantic, from the western Pacific off Australia and New Zealand, and from the eastern Pacific off Chile.

Diaphus suborbitalis

Diaphus kora

Loweina terminata

Order Ophidiiformes

Pycnocraspedum phyllosoma

Order Osmeriformes

Rhynchohyalus natalensis

Persparsia kopua - Persparsia kopua, is a tubeshoulder of the family Platytroctidae, found around the world in the southern hemisphere between latitudes 30° S and 50° S.

Nansenia oblita

Bathylagichthys problematicus

Nansenia atlantica

Nansenia pelagica

Javelin spookfish - The species is notable for unusual protuberances that grow from its eyes, which each have "a well developed lens"

Breakfast fish - Females reach 20 cm in length, while males are up to 25 cm long.

Xenophthalmichthys danae

Nansenia macrolepis

Bathylagichthys australis

Nansenia tenera

Order Perciformes

Plectranthias klausewitzi

Yellowtail horse mackerel - The yellowtail horse mackerel is very similar to the greenback horse mackerel but has 68 to 73 lateral line scutes, compared with 76 to 82 for the greenback horse mackerel.

Symphysanodon disii

Mocosa ruff

Big eye tunny - In Hawaiian, it is one of two species known as ‘ahi; the other is yellowfin tuna.

Naked-head toothfish

Scad - The koheru, Decapterus koheru, is a jack of the genus Decapterus, found only between the North Cape and the East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand, in mid-waters of reef and offshore areas.

Caristius japonicus

Bigscaled mackerel - The butterfly kingfish, bigscale mackerel, or butterfly mackerel, Gasterochisma melampus, the only species in the genus Gasterochisma, is found around the world in southern temperate waters, down to 200 m in open water.

Barracuda - The body is elongated and covered with small, scarcely visible scales; the back is an iridescent blue, while the sides are silvery, with a pattern of vertical blue bars.

Large-scale cigarfish

Pompano dolphinfish - Pompano dolphinfish have a lifespan of 3 to 4 years.

Bandtail notothen

Arabian blackspot threadfin

Prickly pomfret

Bluestriped sea chub

Atlantic white marlin - Average size is 45 to 65 lbs , with females reaching relatively larger sizes.

Checked swallowtail

Broad-bill sword-fish - They are the sole member of their family Xiphiidae.

Antarctic silverfish - The Antarctic Silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum is a member of the suborder Notothenioidei of the Perciform fishes.

Stout infantfish - S.

Maldives Slopefish

Champsodon nudivittis

Brama myersi

Marlin sucker

Allison's tuna - The yellowfin tuna is often marketed as ahi tuna, from its Hawaiian name ʻahi although the name ʻahi in Hawaiian also refers to the closely related bigeye tuna.

Maori cod - Paranotothenia magellanica, the Maori cod, is also known as Magellanic rockcod, blue notothenia or orange throat notothen.

Pithead

Picarel

Roundscale spearfish - A team of university and government scientists has confirmed the existence of the enigmatic billfish species closely resembling the heavily fished, overexploited white marlin.

Atlantic sailfish - Tests in the 1920s estimated that they were capable of short sprints of up to 111 kilometres per hour, however, a more conservative estimates of 37 to 55 kilometres per hour are more widely accepted .

Pacific black marlin - In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the black marlin to its seafood red list.

Silver driftfish

Bigeye squaretail

Whitemouth jack

Driftfish

Luvar - It is a big ellipsoidal fish, growing to two meters in length.

Neoscombrops atlanticus

Bonito

Plectranthias lasti

Cocinero - The cocinero is classified within the genus Caranx, one of a number of groups known as the jacks or trevallies.

Akarnax Slopefish

Pelagic butterfish - The pelagic butterfish, Schedophilus maculatus, is a medusafish of the genus Schedophilus found in all warm oceans.

Caribbean pomfret

Japanese scad

R - The slender suckerfish or lousefish, Phtheirichthys lineatus, is a rare species of remora, family Echeneidae, and the only member of the genus Phtheirichthys.

Mackerel icefish

Whale remora - The whalesucker, Remora australis, is a species of remora in the family Echeneidae, so named because it attaches itself exclusively to cetaceans.

Escolar - The snake mackerel, Gempylus serpens, is a species of fish in the monotypic genus Gempylus, belonging to the family Gempylidae .

Dwarf cigarfish

Parabarossia lanceolata

Bathyclupea elongata

Patagonian toothfish - A close relative, the Antarctic toothfish , is found farther south around the edges of the Antarctic shelf; it also lives in the Ross Sea.

Palm ruff

Japanese spearfish - The shortbill spearfish, Tetrapturus angustirostris, is a species of marlin found in Indo-Pacific oceans not far from the surface.

Blackblotch swallowtail

Chiasmodon subniger

Ragfish - The southern driftfish or ragfish, Icichthys australis, is a medusafish of the genus Icichthys found around the world in all southern oceans between latitudes 50° S and 60° S, from the surface down to 2,000 m.

Driftfish

Inca scad

Brama pauciradiata

Plectranthias jothyi

Schedophilus griseolineatus

Bluefish - In South Africa, this fish is commonly known as shad on the east coast, and elf on the west coast.

Mantasucker - The white suckerfish or mantasucker, Remorina albescens, is a species of remora in the family Echeneidae, a group of elongate marine fish with adhesive discs for attaching to larger organisms.

Bluefin - The southern bluefin tuna is a large, streamlined, fast swimming fish with a long, slender caudal peduncle and relatively short dorsal, pectoral and anal fins.

Gvozdarus balushkini

Black fathead

Atlantic fanfish

Picarel

Atlantic longbill spearfish

Arctic bonito - It is a streamlined, fast-swimming pelagic fish, common in tropical waters throughout the world, where it inhabits surface waters in large shoals , feeding on fish, crustaceans, cephalopods and mollusks.

Bald notothen - Growing to a maximum length of about 28 cm , it is yellow with dark spots and irregular crossbars.

Ravenfish

North-west ruffe

Plectranthias sheni - This is a deep-bodied fish with large mouth and eyes, growing up to 11 cm standard length.

Schedophilus marmoratus

Sala y G

Champsodon longipinnis

Pacific pomfret

Japanese scad

Grey marlinsucker - The spearfish remora, Remora brachyptera, is a remora of the family Echeneidae, found around the world in tropical and subtropical seas.

Longfinned albacore - It is found in the open waters of all tropical and temperate oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Slender tuna - The slender tuna, Allothunnus fallai, is a species of tuna, the only species in the genus Allothunnus, found around the world in the southern oceans between latitudes 20° and 50° South.

Longfin cigarfish

Cryothenia amphitreta - In November 2004, a researcher by the name of Paul A.

Antarctic toothfish - Though sometimes called the Antarctic Cod, the Antarctic toothfish is quite unrelated to a cod.

Spotted fanfish - The spotted fanfish, Pteraclis velifera, is a pomfret of the family Bramidae, found in the indo-west Pacific oceans from South Africa to New Zealand, at depths to 500 m.

Pacific striped marlin - In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the striped marlin to its seafood red list.

Brown rudderfish

Banded driftfish

Angel - The big-scale pomfret, Taractichthys longipinnis, is a pomfret of the family Bramidae, found in the Atlantic ocean, at depths down to 500 m.

Hyperoglyphe macrophthalma

Order Pristiophoriformes

Tropical sawshark - This is a small species; the maximum known length is 85 cm for females and 63 cm for males .

Order Rajiformes

Bentfin devil ray - The bentfin devil ray, lesser devil ray, smoothtail devil ray, smoothtail mobula, or Thurton's devil ray is a species of fish in the Mobulidae family.

Shortfin devilray

Guilers stingray - The pelagic stingray, Pteroplatytrygon violacea, is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, and the sole member of its genus.

Fanfin skate

Munk's devil ray - The manta de monk, Munk's devil ray, pygmy devil ray, or smoothtail mobula is a species of fish in the Mobulidae family.

Pygmy devilray - It is a brownish-grey colour, with a whitish underside.

Order Salmoniformes

Sockeye salmon or kokanee - Sockeye salmon , also called red salmon or blueback salmon, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Pacific Ocean.

Order Scorpaeniformes

Pelagic scorpionfish

Psednos carolinae

Lopholiparis flerxi

Order Squaliformes

Eastern longnose spurdog - Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

Eastern highfin spurdog - Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

Kermadec spiny dogfish

Squalus crassispinus - The fatspine spurdog is a rare, small and slender dogfish with a broad head and short snout.

Western longnose spurdog - The western longnose is a rare, small and slender dogfish with a narrow head and long narrow snout.

Western highfin spurdog - Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

Etmopterus burgessi - Etmopterus burgessi is a newly described lanternshark of the family Dalatiidae in the order Squaliformes.

Edmund's spurdog

Bartail spurdog - The bartail spurdog, Squalus notocaudatus, is a dogfish of the family Squalidae, found on the continental shelf off Queensland, Australia, at depths of between 220 and 450 m .

Fatspine spurdog

Southern Mandarin Dogfish - C.

Order Stomiiformes

Eustomias xenobolus

Astronesthes lucibucca

Eustomias dinema

Eustomias borealis

Eustomias teuthidopsis

Photonectes phyllopogon

Aristostomias xenostoma

Borostomias abyssorum

Leptostomias haplocaulus

Polyipnus oluolus

Eustomias pyrifer

Bathophilus schizochirus

Manducus greyae

Eustomias melanonema

Eustomias intermedius

Ichthyococcus intermedius

Eustomias fissibarbis

Astronesthes psychrolutes

Astronesthes gibbsi

Leptostomias macropogon

Eustomias decoratus

Eustomias vulgaris

Polyipnus surugaensis

Eustomias suluensis

Deepsea loosejaw

Grammatostomias circularis

Leptostomias bilobatus

Eustomias appositus

Melanostomias margaritifer

Eustomias polyaster

Polyipnus danae

Eustomias lipochirus

Astronesthes zetgibbsi

Eustomias grandibulbus

Eustomias dubius

Astronesthes lupina

Leptostomias leptobolus

Eustomias crucis

Eustomias triramis

Astronesthes caulophorus

Polyipnus ovatus

Leptostomias analis

Eustomias achirus

Eustomias similis

Eustomias orientalis

Polyipnus asper

Eustomias kreffti

Astronesthes spatulifer

Eustomias flagellifer

Astronesthes longiceps

Eustomias deofamiliaris

Eustomias woollardi

Eustomias arborifer

Eustomias tenisoni

Photonectes munificus

Bottlelights

Leptostomias gracilis

Melanostomias paucilaternatus

Eustomias precarius

Polyipnus limatulus

Bathophilus abarbatus

Eustomias macrophthalmus

Ichthyococcus australis

Eustomias insularum

Scaleless dragonfish

Astronesthes oligoa

Astronesthes fedorovi

Long-threaded dragon fish

Eustomias danae

Eustomias variabilis

Polyipnus paxtoni

Leptostomias bermudensis

Eustomias acinosus

Eustomias simplex

Photonectes dinema

Eustomias perplexus

Polyipnus bruuni

Eustomias leptobolus

Astronesthes tchuvasovi

Scaleless dragonfish

Order Syngnathiformes

Cosmocampus retropinnis

Order Tetraodontiformes

Slender sunfish - Close-up of the head of a slender sunfish

Southern sunfish