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Image Gallery: Fishes by habitat - pelagic fishes
Pelagic fishes are those that spend much of their lives swimming in open water away from the bottom. Typical pelagic fishes include the tunas, marlins, swordfish and trevallies. Pelagic fishes usually have streamlined bodies, often without scales. Some pelagic fishes, however, have quite different body shapes. This is certainly true for the larval stages of some species.
An Australian Bonito caught at Cabbage Tree Island
A Dogtooth Tuna at Rowley Shoals
'Faye', a large female White Shark near the surface
A Mahi Mahi near a fish attracting device
A Shortfin Mako Shark at the surface
Longfin Pike at Pebbly Bay
Banana Fusiliers at 'Pixies Pinnacle'
A Whale Shark off Western Australia
Head of the Largetooth Cookiecutter shark
A Black Marlin off the Pacific coast of Panama
A Blue Marlin caught east of Kiama
Sailfish caught at Lacepede Islands
Eastern Australian Salmon at Bass Point
Dusky Driftfish swimming below a jellyfish
Scaly Mackerel, Sardinella lemuru
A Blue Trevally at Osprey Reef
Blue Mackerel at Coffs Harbour
A school of Yellow and Blueback Fusiliers.
Doubleline Fusiliers at Phil's Reef
The anterior region of a male Scalloped Hammerhead pup
