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

Order Anguilliformes

Thread eel

Thalassenchelys coheni

Saurenchelys stylura

Thalassenchelys foliaceus

Synaphobranchus dolichorhynchus

Order Atheriniformes

Querimana silverside

Order Aulopiformes

Macroparalepis brevis

Stemonosudis elongata

Lestidiops bathyopteryx

Scopelosaurus hoedti

Rosenblattichthys nemotoi

Lestidiops neles

Paralepis brevirostris

Duckbill barracudina

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.

Hubb's pearleye

Lestidiops distans

Order Beloniformes

Guinean flyingfish

Whitetip flyingfish

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

Banded flyingfish

Pharao flyingfish

Keeltail needlefish

Saury

Tylosurus acus imperialis

Gyre flyingfish

Cheilopogon doederleinii

Stained flyingfish

Whitespot flyingfish

Dwarf saury

Agujon needlefish

Cape needlefish

Shoulderspot needlefish

Short-beaked garfish

Glider flyingfish

African flyingfish

Black wing flyingfish

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

Agujon needlefish

Sailor flyingfish

Bandwing flyingfish

Cheilopogon ventralis

Coromandel flyingfish

Barbel flyingfish

Platybelone argalus lovii

Margined flyingfish

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus japonicus

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

Balao

Slender halfbeak

Saury

Order Carcharhiniformes

Proscyllium magnificum

Cephaloscyllium parvum

Carcharhinus macrops

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

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.

Gulf smoothhound - Reproduction is Ovoviviparous.

Northern river shark - Northern river sharks are likely piscivorous.

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

Western spotted catshark - Reproduction is oviparous.

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

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.

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.

Order Cetomimiformes

Cetomimoides parri

Order Clupeiformes

Marini's anchovy

Key anchovy

Order Gadiformes

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

Silvery cod

Lyconodes argenteus

Codlet

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

Lyconus pinnatus

Svetovidovia lucullus

Order Lamniformes

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 .

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Order Lampriformes

Whiptail ribbonfish

King of herrings

Southern opah

Streamer fish

Tapertail ribbonfish

Tapertail

Regalecus kinoi

Trachipterus ishikawae

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

Order Myctophiformes

Bolinichthys pyrsobolus

Reverse gland lanternfish

Diaphus rivatoni

Diaphus impostor

Myctophum ovcharovi

Giant lampfish

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.

Diaphus vanhoeffeni

Bigfin lanternfish

Lamp fish

Lanternfish

Diaphus malayanus

Lantern fish

Andre's lanternfish

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.

Protomyctophum beckeri

Diaphus signatus

Loweina terminata

Nannobrachium isaacsi

Diaphus kapalae

Diaphus danae

Lanternfish

Diaphus wisneri

Lanternfish

Large scale lantern fish

Lanternfish

Diaphus regani

Diaphus gigas

Myctophum lunatum

Centrobranchus brevirostris

Southern lanternfish

California flashlightfish

Diaphus suborbitalis

Glacial lanternfish

Mexican lampfish

Diaphus kora

Diaphus diadematus

Metelectrona herwigi

Diogenichthys panurgus

Order Ophidiiformes

Pycnocraspedum phyllosoma

Order Osmeriformes

Bathylagichthys problematicus

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 pelagica

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

Xenophthalmichthys danae

Nansenia macrolepis

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

Rhynchohyalus natalensis

Nansenia tenera

Bathylagichthys australis

Nansenia oblita

Nansenia atlantica

Order Perciformes

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.

Blackblotch swallowtail

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.

Inca scad

Champsodon nudivittis

Driftfish

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.

Picarel

Atlantic longbill spearfish

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

Atlantic fanfish

Gvozdarus balushkini

North-west ruffe

Pithead

Ravenfish

Pacific pomfret

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

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.

Schedophilus marmoratus

Sala y G

Bathyclupea elongata

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

Mackerel icefish

Japanese scad

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

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

Plectranthias lasti

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.

Bonito

Dwarf cigarfish

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.

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.

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

Banded driftfish

Brown rudderfish

Mocosa ruff

Chiasmodon subniger

Symphysanodon disii

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.

Hyperoglyphe macrophthalma

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

Naked-head toothfish

Prickly pomfret

Arabian blackspot threadfin

Plectranthias jothyi

Bluestriped sea chub

Black fathead

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

Brama myersi

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.

Bandtail notothen

Maldives Slopefish

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.

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

Stout infantfish - S.

Checked swallowtail

Marlin sucker

Champsodon longipinnis

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.

Japanese scad

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.

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

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

Longfin cigarfish

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

Silver driftfish

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

Bigeye squaretail

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

Caribbean pomfret

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.

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

Akarnax Slopefish

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.

Whitemouth jack

Neoscombrops atlanticus

Driftfish

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

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

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

Plectranthias klausewitzi

Palm ruff

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

Brama pauciradiata

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

Parabarossia lanceolata

Large-scale cigarfish

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

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

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.

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.

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

Shortfin devilray

Fanfin skate

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

Lopholiparis flerxi

Pelagic scorpionfish

Psednos carolinae

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

Eastern longnose spurdog - Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

Eastern highfin spurdog - Its reproduction is ovoviviparous.

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

Kermadec spiny dogfish

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

Southern Mandarin Dogfish - C.

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.

Order Stomiiformes

Eustomias teuthidopsis

Eustomias fissibarbis

Eustomias pyrifer

Eustomias melanonema

Eustomias decoratus

Astronesthes zetgibbsi

Polyipnus limatulus

Astronesthes lupina

Leptostomias gracilis

Eustomias intermedius

Eustomias appositus

Melanostomias paucilaternatus

Astronesthes caulophorus

Eustomias vulgaris

Deepsea loosejaw

Eustomias suluensis

Ichthyococcus australis

Eustomias polyaster

Eustomias dubius

Polyipnus paxtoni

Eustomias lipochirus

Long-threaded dragon fish

Astronesthes spatulifer

Polyipnus bruuni

Eustomias crucis

Astronesthes longiceps

Eustomias grandibulbus

Leptostomias bermudensis

Eustomias achirus

Borostomias abyssorum

Eustomias triramis

Bathophilus abarbatus

Eustomias similis

Eustomias orientalis

Eustomias deofamiliaris

Polyipnus oluolus

Astronesthes oligoa

Leptostomias haplocaulus

Eustomias kreffti

Bottlelights

Eustomias arborifer

Astronesthes fedorovi

Eustomias flagellifer

Eustomias woollardi

Manducus greyae

Photonectes munificus

Eustomias tenisoni

Ichthyococcus intermedius

Eustomias precarius

Polyipnus surugaensis

Scaleless dragonfish

Eustomias macrophthalmus

Leptostomias macropogon

Eustomias danae

Astronesthes tchuvasovi

Polyipnus danae

Astronesthes lucibucca

Eustomias insularum

Grammatostomias circularis

Leptostomias bilobatus

Eustomias acinosus

Melanostomias margaritifer

Aristostomias xenostoma

Eustomias variabilis

Photonectes dinema

Bathophilus schizochirus

Eustomias simplex

Eustomias perplexus

Eustomias dinema

Polyipnus ovatus

Astronesthes psychrolutes

Leptostomias leptobolus

Eustomias leptobolus

Polyipnus asper

Eustomias borealis

Astronesthes gibbsi

Scaleless dragonfish

Leptostomias analis

Eustomias xenobolus

Photonectes phyllopogon

Order Syngnathiformes

Cosmocampus retropinnis

Order Tetraodontiformes

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

Southern sunfish