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Cystophora cristata
Cystophora cristata,Hooded seal
Hooded seal (scientific name: Cystophora cristata) is also known as Hooded seal in foreign languages. There are no subspecies.Amon···
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Phoca vitulina
Phoca vitulina ，Common seal
The scientific name of the harbor seal is Phoca vitulina (Linnaeus, 1758), and the foreign name is Common seal. It is a seal distr···
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Phoca sibirica
Phoca sibirica,Baikal Seal,Siberian seal, freshwater seal
Baikal Seal (Phoca sibirica), also known as Baikal Seal in English, lives in the Baikal Lake area of Russia. It is the only freshw···
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Phoca hispida
Phoca hispida，Ringed seal，Nordic seal, ice seal, ring seal
The scientific name of the ringed seal is Phoca hispida, and its foreign name is Ringed seal. There are 5 subspecies. It is one of···
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Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagophilus groenlandicus,Harp Seal、Greenland Seal,Greenland seal, ice seal, Lyra seal, saddle seal
Harp seal (scientific name: Pagophilus groenlandicus) is also known as Harp Seal and Greenland Seal. It has no subspecies.Harp sea···
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Phoca caspica
Phoca caspica,Caspian ringed seal, Phoca leucopus
The scientific name of the Caspian seal is Phoca caspica, an animal belonging to the genus Phoca of the family Phocidae.Caspian se···
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Ommatophoca rossii
Ommatophoca rossii,Ross seal, Ross seal
The big-eyed seal (scientific name: Ommatophoca rossii) is named because of its relatively large eyes (eye diameter up to 7 cm). I···
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Monachus tropicalis
Monachus tropicalis ,Caribbean monk seal,West Indian monk seal
Caribbean monk seal, Monachus tropicalis (Gray, 1850) foreign name Caribbean monk seal, a seal of the genus Phocaeus in the family···
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Monachus schauinslandi
Monachus schauinslandi,Hawaiian monk seal
Hawaiian monk seal (scientific name: Monachus schauinslandi) is the only native seal in Hawaii.Except for the breeding season, Haw···
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Psychrolutes marcidus
Psychrolutes marcidus,Blobfish,Sad fish, soft-spined sculpin, popper fish
The Latin name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus, and its foreign name is Blobfish. It is also known as the sad fish, soft ···
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Danionella dracula
Danionella dracula,Toothpick fish
The scientific name of the vampire fish is "Danionella dracula", a small carp found in Myanmar. It is estimated that it ···
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Mitsukurinidae owstoni
Mitsukurinidae owstoni,Goblin shark, Goblin shark, Goblin shark
Owstoni's sharpnose shark (scientific name: Mitsukurinidae owstoni), also known as Owstoni's sharpnose shark, Owstoni'···
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Monodon monoceros
Monodon monoceros，Narwhal、Unicorn Whale,Narwhal, Lance Whale
The scientific name of narwhal: Monodon monoceros, foreign names Narwhal, Unicorn Whale, no subspecies.As a protected Arctic speci···
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Lophiomus setigerus
Lophiomus setigerus,black-mouth goosefish,Blackmouth anglerfish, stutter fish, anglerfish, toadfish, old man fish
The Latin name of black anglerfish is Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl, 1797), and its foreign name is black-mouth goosefish. There are o···
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Lophius litulon
Lophius litulon,Toadfish, stutterfish, sea turtle
Yellow anglerfish, whose scientific name is Lophius litulon, is a deep-sea benthic fish.Yellow anglerfish usually lures prey with ···
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Cheilinus undulatus
Cheilinus undulatus,Giant Wrasse,Napoleon wrasse, wavy parrotfish, curved lip fish, Napoleon bream, dragon king bream, sea bream, big piece
Cheilinus undulatus (scientific name: Giant Wrasse) is a large wrasse with no subspecies.Cheilinus undulatus is usually solitary, ···
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Bahaba taipingensis
Bahaba taipingensis,Chinese Bahaba,Golden money sturgeon, golden money croaker, golden money fierce fish, fish high, big gull, white flower fish, yellow sweet
Chinese Bahaba (scientific name: Bahaba taipingensis) is called Chinese Bahaba in foreign language. It has no subspecies and belon···
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Dwarf Seahorse
Hippocampus zosterae,Dwarf Seahorse
The dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the Syngnathidae and Hippocampus.The diet of the dwarf seahorse consists of live prey, inclu···
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White’s seahorse
Hippocampus whitei,White’s seahorse
White’s seahorse is a species of Syngnathidae in the order Acanthopterygii of the class Actinopterygii.White’s seahorse is carni···
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Hippocampus waleananus
Hippocampus waleananus,Wari Island Dwarf Seahorse
Warren's pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus waleananus (M. F. Gomon et Kuiter, 2009), is an animal of the genus Hippocampus in the fa···
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Hedgehog Seahorse
Hedgehog Seahorse,Hippocampus spinosissimus
Hedgehog Seahorse is a fish of the Syngnathidae family and the genus Hippocampus.Hedgehog Seahorse mainly feeds on small crustacea···
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Hippocampus sindonis
Hippocampus sindonis,Sindo's Seahorse,Moss Seahorse，hana tatsu
The Latin scientific name of the flower seahorse Hippocampus sindonis, and the English name Sindo's Seahorse comes from the na···
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Physeter macrocephalus
Physeter macrocephalus,Sperm Whale, Cachelot, Pot Whale, Spermacet Whale ,Cachalot , Ballena Esperma, Cachalote, Giant Sperm Whale, Kacherat Whale
Sperm Whale, with no subspecies, has the largest brain in the animal kingdom.Sperm whales like to live in groups, often with a few···
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Globicephala macrorhynchus
Globicephala macrorhynchus,short-finned pilot whale,Great nosed pilot whale, Great nosed pilot whale
Short-finned pilot whale is a warm-water oceanic species.Short-finned pilot whales are most easily confused with other small black···
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