Spearfish: alternatives and connections

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the p…

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.

elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nu…

One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Ill…

A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no v…

any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish";…

A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishe…

One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…

small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified…

small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified…

among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a ru…

Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A proje…

A large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large…

Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugular…