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#Fish

21 creatures with this trait
View Alligator Gar profile

Alligator Gar

Atractosteus spatula
Musical Match 🦅 Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues
🎸 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Similar: AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Clutch

The 100-million-year-old living fossil with dual rows of enamel teeth and diamond-hard ganoid armor.

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Arapaima

Arapaima gigas
Musical Match ⚰️ Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom
🎸 Mastodon
Similar: Sunn O))), Electric Wizard, Ahab

The three-meter armored Amazonian river giant that breathes air and crushes fish with a tooth-lined bony tongue.

View Atlantic Flying Fish profile

Atlantic Flying Fish

Cheilopogon melanurus
Musical Match 🚀 2020s Pop & Modern Alt
🎸 Dua Lipa
Similar: Charli xcx, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan

The oceanic speed glider that hydroplanes at 70 km/h and glides 400 meters above the waves.

View Australian Lungfish profile

Australian Lungfish

Neoceratodus forsteri
Musical Match ❄️ Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes
🎸 Brian Eno
Similar: Tim Hecker, Stars of the Lid, William Basinski

The 380-million-year-old living fossil with a vascularized single lung and fleshy walking lobe-fins.

View Barreleye Fish profile

Barreleye Fish

Macropinna microstoma
Musical Match 🍄 Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych
🎸 Can
Similar: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Tame Impala, Pink Floyd

The deep-sea fish with a transparent fluid-filled skull and glowing green tubular rotating eyes.

View Blobfish profile

Blobfish

Psychrolutes microporos
Musical Match 🎧 Chillhop & Lo-Fi Beats
🎸 Mac DeMarco
Similar: Nujabes, J Dilla, Kupla

Natural deep-sea pressure cushion, gelatinous low-density flesh, and deep continental slope floater.

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Candiru

Vandellia cirrhosa
Musical Match 🎛️ IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis
🎸 Boards of Canada
Similar: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Four Tet

The translucent parasitic toothpick catfish that tracks chemical plumes into fish gills to feed on blood.

View Electric Catfish profile

Electric Catfish

Malapterurus electricus
Musical Match 🕹️ 80s Retrowave & Synthwave
🎸 Gary Numan
Similar: Kavinsky, Carpenter Brut, Timecop1983

The African river tank encased in an electrogenic mantle capable of delivering 450-volt defensive shocks.

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Volta Electric Eel

Electrophorus voltai
Musical Match 🪩 Classic Funk, Soul & Disco
🎸 Daft Punk
Similar: Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Fela Kuti

The 860-volt biological super-battery that electrifies Amazonian murky rivers.

View Giant Freshwater Stingray profile

Giant Freshwater Stingray

Urogymnus polylepis
Musical Match ☕ Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo
🎸 Massive Attack
Similar: Portishead, Radiohead, Gorillaz

The 300-kilogram Mekong river phantom equipped with a 15-inch serrated venomous tail spine.

View Common Goldfish profile

Common Goldfish

Carassius auratus
Musical Match 🕹️ 80s Retrowave & Synthwave
🎸 Home
Similar: Kavinsky, Carpenter Brut, Timecop1983

The resilient four-color-vision swimmer that can remember mazes for months and produce natural alcohol to survive freezing ponds.

View Goliath Tigerfish profile

Goliath Tigerfish

Hydrocynus goliath
Musical Match 🌊 Modern Metalcore & Djent
🎸 Gojira
Similar: Parkway Drive, Architects, Meshuggah

The 50-kilogram Congo River terror with 3.5-centimeter interlocking fangs that leaps out of rapids to catch birds.

View Gulper Eel (Pelican Eel) profile

Gulper Eel (Pelican Eel)

Eurypharynx pelecanoides
Musical Match 🎛️ IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis
🎸 Oneohtrix Point Never
Similar: Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Autechre

Massive parachute pouch jaws, bioluminescent tail lantern, and abyssal vacuum swallower.

View White-Spotted Pufferfish profile

White-Spotted Pufferfish

Torquigener albomaculosus
Musical Match 🗼 Japanese City Pop & Shibuya-kei
🎸 Miki Matsubara
Similar: Tatsuro Yamashita, Mariya Takeuchi, Taeko Onuki

The 5-inch deep-sea architect that spends seven sleepless days sculpting giant geometric sand mandalas.

View Ocean Sunfish (Mola Mola) profile

Ocean Sunfish (Mola Mola)

Mola mola
Musical Match 🎧 Chillhop & Lo-Fi Beats
🎸 Kupla
Similar: Nujabes, J Dilla, Mac DeMarco

Five-thousand-pound tailless living disc, surface sunbather, and oceanic jellyfish hoover.

View Payara profile

Payara

Hydrolycus scomberoides
Musical Match ⚡ Thrash Metal & Speed Metal
🎸 Judas Priest
Similar: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer

The Amazonian Dracula fish with six-inch lower fangs that slide into special slots in its own upper skull.

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Pink Sea Toad

Chaunacops coloratus
Musical Match 🍄 Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych
🎸 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Similar: Tame Impala, Pink Floyd, Ocean Alley

Volcanic seamount walker, blue-to-pink color-shifting skin, and 15-millisecond vacuum gape.

View Ribbon Eel profile

Ribbon Eel

Rhinomuraena quaesita
Musical Match 🎧 80s Pop & Dance Anthem
🎸 Prince

The flamboyant reef morpher that transforms from jet black to royal electric blue and radiant gold.

View Striated Frogfish profile

Striated Frogfish

Antennarius striatus
Musical Match 🎧 Drum & Bass / Precision Jungle
🎸 Current Value

The 6-millisecond vacuum strike predator that walks on pectoral fins and fishes with a wriggling worm lure.

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Atlantic Torpedo Ray

Torpedo nobiliana
Musical Match 🧪 Big Beat & 90s Acid Techno
🎸 The Prodigy
Similar: The Chemical Brothers, Infected Mushroom, Fatboy Slim

Two-hundred-twenty volt electric shock pulses, disc ambush camouflage, and oceanic electric grid.

View Wels Catfish profile

Wels Catfish

Silurus glanis
Musical Match 🏜️ Stoner Rock & Desert Groove
🎸 Red Fang
Similar: Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep

Europe's largest freshwater predator that beach-lunges out of rivers to snatch live pigeons off gravel banks.