Aquatic Alphabet - V

A popular fish of long size that is consumed a lot in the Indian subcontinent. It puts up a strong fight, and in some cases has leaped out of the water when hooked.

Their name comes from the texture of their skin, and live on the sea bottom close to shore in the Indo-Pacific area.

A genus of fish found in Europe and Western Asia, found in brackish waters of ponds, rivers, and muddy streams.

They are thin and long, and have very large fang-like teeth. They have luminescent organs along their sides.

This squid lives in deep sea conditions, sports a dark color and blue eyes, and has cloak-like webbing around its arms. It's the only known cephalopod that doesn't eat live prey.

This crab is named from the texture of its skin, which comes from the short hairs coating its body. Though small, it is one of the major crab species for fisheries in the UK.

This small snail's name comes from the color of its shell. It secretes mucus that creates a bubble raft, which it clings on to so it can travel across the ocean.

A species of porpoise found in the northern end of the Gulf of California. It is the world's rarest marine mammal.

A predatory fish that has a blue-green color on the upper-half of its body before it ends on a zig-zag pattern, to which the bottom half of its body is white.

Also called the crisscross butterflyfish, it is mostly white in color except for the vertical black stripe covering its eye, and the yellow and black pattern near its tail.

Its body is mostly pinkish to red, except for its white belly. They are found across the western Atlantic Ocean.