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Tag Archives: fish
Seattle Aquarium research in Hawaii part 1: reef surveys
Wish you had a reason to travel to Hawaii during Seattle’s chilly and wet winters? Then you might envy the Seattle Aquarium biologists who travel to the west coast of Hawaii’s Big Island every winter to conduct annual reef surveys, more »
Posted in Conservation, Seattle Aquarium
Tagged conservation, coral, diversity, fish, Hawaii, kole tang, marine animals, reef, Seattle Aquarium
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Creature feature: sablefish
Visitors to our Underwater Dome exhibit often ask, “What’s that funny looking gray fish?” Sometimes they’re asking about wolf eels (which aren’t eels, despite their name)—but more often, they’re referring to sablefish. Despite sometimes being called “black cod” and having more »
Posted in Marine Animals, Seattle Aquarium
Tagged fish, marine animals, sablefish, Seattle Aquarium
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What's that gonzo fish? A sockeye salmon!
That was the question asked by a recent Aquarium visitor after noticing the long hooked nose on a sockeye salmon. Our male sockeye salmon, especially those in our Window on Washington Waters exhibit, are getting a lot of attention due more »
Posted in Conservation, Marine Animals, Seattle Aquarium
Tagged fish, gonzo, salmon, Seattle Aquarium, sockeye salmon, spawning
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Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are back!
Always fun to watch and looking a bit like swimming golf balls, Pacific spiny lumpsuckers, Eumicrotremus orbis, have returned to our Puget Sound Fish exhibit. These odd fish get their names from an interesting feature: a sucker disk that they more »
Posted in Marine Animals, Seattle Aquarium
Tagged exhibit, fish, Pacific spiny lumpsucer, Puget Sound, Seattle Aquarium
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Creature feature: the male mouth-brooding Banggai cardinalfish
What does “male mouth-brooding” mean exactly? That the male carries the eggs—in his mouth! That’s an interesting characteristic of all cardinalfish. Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, belong to the Family Apogonidae (Cardinalfish). They’re named for the area in which they’re more »
Posted in Conservation, Marine Animals, Seattle Aquarium
Tagged baby fish, Banggai cardinalfish, fish, Seattle Aquarium
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