Making the Oceans a Rainbow of Color
With over 20,000 different fish species living in the world’s oceans, saltwater bony fish are the most varied of all marine animals living in the sea. They can range in size from a 2-inch goby to the enormous ocean sun fish (or Mola mola), they can be brilliantly colorful to plain grey, can live solitary lives or school by the thousands, and can live in the shallowest of tropical waters to the coldest, deepest depths of the sea. There is no animal group on earth that can compare to the diversity of bony marine fish.
With over 20,000 different fish species living in the world’s oceans, saltwater bony fish are the most varied of all marine animals living in the sea. They can range in size from a 2-inch goby to the enormous ocean sun fish (or Mola mola), they can be brilliantly colorful to plain grey, can live solitary lives or school by the thousands, and can live in the shallowest of tropical waters to the coldest, deepest depths of the sea. There is no animal group on earth that can compare to the diversity of bony marine fish.

Ocean Sunfish

Grouper/Basslets

Moray Eel

Sand Eel

Snake Eel

Conger Eel

Angelfish

Butterfly Fish

Clownfish

Barracuda

Jackfish

Scorpionfish

Lionfish

Frogfish

Surgeonfish

Sweetlips and Grunts

Parrotfish

Soldierfish

Triggerfish

Damselfish

Porcupinefish

Pufferfish

Garibaldi Damselfish

Trumpetfish

Bannerfish

Flounder

Ribbon Moray Eel (Ghost Eel)

Panther Moray Eel (Dragon Eel)
