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The fastest fish

The name of this representatives is a sailboat. A sailboat can reach speeds of over one hundred kilometers per hour, and sail in three seconds about ninety meters.

Huge fish

In the oceans lives the largest fish - the whale shark. The recorded size of a whale shark, caught in 1949, reached about twelve and a half meters in length and seven meters in the largest part of the body.

Freshwater predatory fish

The most dangerous predator fish is piranha. They live and attack their victim in packs, regardless of the size of the victim itself. These fish can even attack humans. Eat their prey in seconds.

Fish living in the depths

The deepest fish living underwater is the bassogigas. Lives at a depth of over eight thousand meters under the water.

Unique fish

Unusual fish - pineapple. This fish is also called a slider. Habitat South Asia. Anabas can crawl on trees and breathe underwater and on land. Mudfish fish can live on land and in water. This fish moves on the ground, on its fins and breathes moist air.

Stingray fish has over thirty thousand taste buds, and only about seven thousand people.
Fish scales are used in the production of lipstick.

The only fish that swims vertically. This fish is a seahorse.

Electric fish

Stingrays and eels have electrical energy. This energy is enough to kill a horse.

Unusual fish

Shark is a representative of one of the unusual species of fish. She is able to raise her body temperature and survive, eat and hunt in very cold water. The shark has eyelids, other fish have none. In some species of sharks, meat tastes salty.

Flying fish

So called - flying fish. They can rise above the water surface up to five meters and soar in the air up to one hundred meters above the water level.

Poisonous fish

There are several species that are considered poisonous representatives of the aquatic environment. Stone fish, as well as warts, have the bite of a killer monster. Their bite causes loss of consciousness, paralysis and death. Help not provided during the first hours, and sometimes minutes after a bite, leads to shock and death.

Slowest

The dwarf seahorse is the slowest fish of all species. Watching this view, it may seem that they just hang in the water. In one hour, a dwarf horse can swim only two meters.