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Bright markings
break up fish’s
Hammerhead shark
outline and
confuse predators

FISH Emperor angelfish

Found in oceans, lakes, and rivers, fish are
vertebrates that are adapted for life in water.
Seahorse
They have streamlined bodies covered with
protective scales, and fins that propel and
steer. The three types of fish are jawless fish,
Body covered such as lampreys; cartilaginous fish, such as
with bony plates
sharks and rays; and bony fish, the biggest
and most diverse group, which includes
most of those swimming here.

Barracuda
Thick, heavy
scales cover the
coelacanth’s body

5 Coelacanth

2 Anglerfish

Lamprey

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1 SHARK
Found in oceans 4 Lionfish
worldwide, these formidable
predators have keen senses,
powerful bodies covered with
denticles (small toothlike skin
growths), rigid fins, and rows
of sharp teeth. 3 LAMPREY
This blood-sucking fish is
2 ANGLERFISH one of the few survivors of
A growth projecting from the most ancient group of 4 LIONFISH 5 COELACANTH
the anglerfish’s head lures fish, the jawless fish. It has This bony fish is one of the The coelacanth’s fleshy fins 6 RAY
curious prey close to the smooth, scaleless skin and most poisonous in the sea. are pulled by muscles so it With a mouth on their
fish’s mouth, which opens a suckerlike mouth lined Its long, venomous spines can swim or “walk” over the underside, flat rays feed off
wide to consume the with rows of teeth, which it disable predators. Brightly seabed. Thought to have creatures on the seabed.
visitor whole. uses to clamp onto the side colored stripes warn of died out 65 million years ago, They flap their winglike fins
of a living fish. the danger. it was rediscovered in 1938. to move through the water.

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