The Digital Fish Library

This Eastern Pacific species, Abudefduf troschelii, inhabits rocky shores and feeds on plankton, benthic invertebrates, and algae. The are usually white or pale silvery green, with five distinct black bars on their side. Breeding and nest-guarding males...

The Scrawled Cowfish lives in seagrass beds of the tropical and temperate western Atlantic Ocean. Although usually blue-green to yellow, it can change to a variety of different colors....

The Island Kelpfish, so-named because it is common in the islands off Southern California, is found around rocky reefs and kelp forests. It feeds on small invertebrates and typically perches on the bottom....

The American Shad occurs in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, entering freshwater and brackish water as far as 500 km to spawn. Shad often school near the surface. They feed on plankton, mysids, copepods, fish eggs and sometimes small fishes....

Pacific Mutton Hamlets inhabit rocky reefs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California, Mexico, south to Peru. They are marbled red-brown with obscure bars and spots. During the daylight, they hide by wedging themselves into crevices or lying...