The fish that have nowhere else to go on this site: about thirty entries, from about twenty families, filed together because building a group for one or two species helps nobody. It is not a group and does not pretend to be.
Several are among the more interesting animals in the index. The stargazers lie buried with only the eyes and mouth showing and take fish that swim over them; the jawfish hover above a burrow they line with shell and brood their eggs in the mouth; the flashlightfish carry a light organ full of luminous bacteria and blink it by rolling it away; the pearlfish lives inside a sea cucumber and comes out at night.
Others are here because their whole family is represented by one or two animals: the flying gurnards, the sweepers, the bigeyes, the eeltail catfish, the razorfish and shrimpfish that swim head-down, the drums, the toadfish, the weevers, the sandperches, the tilefish, the tripodfish, and the two seamoths that walk on the bottom.
If a family here grows past two or three entries it should be split out, in the way the whole index was split out of "muck fish". The group exists to hold the genuinely odd ones, not as somewhere to put things. That has already happened once: the Australian and western Atlantic entries took this group from 33 to 60, and the jawfish, the morwongs and the trumpetfish and cornetfish were split out of it, while the Ogcocephalus batfishes went to Frogfish & anglers, where they belong.
Every one has a page. They are shown as a list rather than as pictures because nothing has been photographed or logged for them yet, and a species with nothing behind it should not sit in front of one that has.
How many of the 46 carry a record at each destination. A species usually carries several, so these do not add up to 46.
All 1316 species in one index, with filters for destination, rarity and hazard.
