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| fishes text index | photo index |
| fishes | Family Synanceiidae | Family Scorpaenidae | Family Batrachoididae | Family Serranidae |
| Stick-like
fishes How to tell them apart? updated Aug 08 |
| Several different
kinds of fishes are long and thin and look like sticks. Here's more on how to tell them apart. |
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Needflefish
Family Belonidae |
Halfbeak
Family Hemiramphidae |
Pipefish
Family Syngnathidae |
| Swims mostly on the water surface. Quite active | Swims mostly on the water surface. Quite active. | Is not very active, usually motionless among seaweeds and seagrasses near the bottom. |
| Sharp pointed jaws. | Sharp pointed jaws. | Blunt cylindrical snout. |
| Lower and upper jaws the same length. | Upper jaw much shorter than lower jaws. | No teeth or jaws. |
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