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Touch-sensitive
barbels used to
locate food

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Anchovies
Sturgeon
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8 Hatchetfish
Large, upward-pointing
eyes detect prey
moving overhead

Eyes are located
on top of the
ray’s head
6 Spotted ray

10 Coho salmon

Moray eel 11

Grouper

11 MORAY EEL
The moray eel lives in
10 SALMON tropical waters and has a
Like more than 90 percent long, snakelike body that
of the 25,000 species of fish, can reach up to 10 ft (3 m)
9 ANCHOVY salmon have bony skeletons in length. Moray eels
7 STURGEON 8 HATCHETFISH Silvery anchovies feed in and flexible fins. Salmon ambush their prey. They
A long fish with scutes (bony This ax-shaped fish lives in shoals on tiny organisms and their relatives, including hide in crevices in rocks and
plates) rather than scales, the dark ocean midwaters. filtered from the water. trout, are fast-moving reefs, then launch a surprise
the sturgeon belongs to an Light organs on the fish’s The dense shoals contain carnivores with sharp teeth attack, grabbing passing
ancient group with part-bony underside confuse predators thousands of individuals that ambush prey or attack prey with their sharp teeth.
and part-cartilage skeletons. by disguising its outline. and attract many predators. over a short distance.

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