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Alosa

Alosa pseudoharengus

A Alosa é um pequeno clupeídeo anádromo que passa grande parte de sua vida em água salgada costeira ou grandes lagos e migra para os rios para desovar. É um peixe forrageiro importante e geralmente é capturado incidentalmente por pescadores, raramente sendo alvo de pesca esportiva.

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Peixe-iguana

Atractosteus spatula

O peixe-iguana é um grande peixe antigo de nadadeiras raiadas de rios lentos, remansos, meandros abandonados e lagos de planície de inundação na bacia do Mississippi e drenagens costeiras próximas. Ele embosca peixes na superfície e pode respirar ar, permitindo sobreviver em águas com baixo oxigênio.

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Donzela de Ambon

Pomacentrus amboinensis

A Donzela de Ambon é um pequeno pomacentrídeo do Indo-Pacífico, intimamente associada a corais ramificados e bordas de recifes rasos. É um onívoro territorial que se alimenta de algas e pequenos invertebrados, sendo muito mais vista por mergulhadores do que capturada por pescadores.

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Anguila-americana

Anguilla rostrata

Anguila-americana (Anguilla rostrata) é uma enguia catádroma que passa a maior parte de sua vida em água doce, água salobra e estuários costeiros antes de migrar para o Mar dos Sargaços para desovar. É uma predadora noturna e secreta frequentemente negligenciada pelos pescadores, mas pode ser muito eficaz com isca.

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Sábalo Americano

Dorosoma cepedianum

Sábalo Americano é um peixe forrageiro clupeídeo prateado comum em águas quentes e lentas em grande parte do leste e centro da América do Norte. Alimenta-se filtrando plâncton e detritos, e é presa importante para bass, catfish, crappie e outros predadores.

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American Pickerel

Esox americanus

American Pickerel (Esox americanus) is a slender, ambush-predatory esocid found in vegetated fresh waters across eastern North America. It is smaller and more delicately built than northern pike or muskellunge, with a duck-bill snout and chainlike markings.

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Amur Carp

Cyprinus rubrofuscus

Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus) is a cyprinid carp native to East Asia and widely introduced beyond its original range. It inhabits warm, slow waters and is an adaptable bottom-feeder that can grow large in ponds, lakes, and lowland rivers.

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Amur Goby

Rhinogobius similis

Amur goby (Rhinogobius similis) is a small benthic goby associated with cool, clear running water. It is reported from freshwater streams and rivers in East Asia, but available public records can be scattered and some identifications in occurrence data may be uncertain.

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Annular Seabream

Diplodus annularis

Annular seabream is a small sparid of coastal Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic waters, usually found over sandy and mixed bottoms near seagrass, reefs, and harbors. It feeds on small benthic invertebrates and is an occasional bycatch rather than a primary target.

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Arabian Picasso Triggerfish

Rhinecanthus assasi

A venomous reef triggerfish of the western Indian Ocean, usually seen near coral and rocky reefs in shallow coastal waters. It has the triggerfish body plan and is mainly a benthic feeder that picks at hard-shelled invertebrates and other reef prey.

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Arc-eye Hawkfish

Paracirrhites arcatus

A small Indo-Pacific coral-reef hawkfish that sits on exposed perches and darts at passing prey. It is not a target sport fish, but it is a familiar reef species in shallow lagoon and fore-reef habitats.

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Atlantic Blue Tang

Acanthurus coeruleus

Atlantic blue tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) is a bright blue surgeonfish of Atlantic reefs and seagrass edges, most vivid as juveniles and adults in shallow clear water. It grazes mostly on algae and is a common reef species, though details of local abundance vary by area.

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