swap_horiz Armourhead Alternatives

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Goblin Shark

The goblin shark is a rare deep-sea fish belonging to the Squaliformes order. It’s distinguished by its unique flattened...

Shark Deep Sea Squaliformes Mitsukurinidae

9.2 Excellent

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Frilled Shark

The frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) is a rare deep-sea fish belonging to a remarkably ancient lineage of shar...

Shark Deep Sea Primitive Chlamydoselachidae

9.2 Excellent

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Coelacanth

The coelacanth is a rare deep-sea fish belonging to the family Latimeriidae. It’s notable as a living fossil, representi...

Rare Deep Sea Lobe Finned Living Fossil

9.2 Excellent

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Greenland Shark

The Greenland shark (*Somniosus microcephalus*) is a deep-sea shark species notable for its exceptional longevity. Scien...

Large Shark Deep Sea Somniosidae

9.2 Excellent

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Indonesian Coelacanth

The Indonesian Coelacanth represents a critically rare glimpse into ancient fish evolution. This lobe-finned fish, scien...

Rare Deep Sea Lobe Finned Living Fossil

8.7 Great

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Orange Roughy

A deep-sea fish (Hoplostethus atlanticus) capable of living over 150 years, with many populations severely depleted by c...

Commercial Long Lived Deep Sea Bathyal

7.8 Good

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Rougheye Rockfish

Sebastes aleutianus, the rougheye rockfish of the North Pacific, is among the longest-lived fish known, with verified ag...

Commercial Pacific Long Lived Deep Sea

7.7 Good

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Spotted Ratfish

Spotted Ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) is a chimaera ranging from Alaska to Baja California along the Pacific coast of Nor...

Pacific Deep Sea Chimaera Chimaeridae

7.6 Good

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Sablefish

Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) is a commercially important North Pacific species marketed as "black cod," prized for its...

Commercial Pacific Bathyal Oily Flesh

7.4 Good

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Luminous Hake

Steindachneria argentea, the sole species in family Steindachneriidae, notable for a ventral bioluminescent organ beneat...

Commercial Deep Sea Bathyal Hake

7.1 Good

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Ragfish

Icosteus aenigmaticus is a gelatinous North Pacific deep-sea fish whose adults retain a largely cartilaginous skeleton r...

Large Pacific Deep Sea Gelatinous

6.9 Fair

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Oilfish

Ruvettus pretiosus (Gempylidae), a circumglobal deep-sea fish whose flesh is dense in indigestible wax esters, causing g...

Commercial Deep Sea Mesopelagic Gempylidae

6.9 Fair

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Deepwater Tilefish

Deepwater Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) is a large western North Atlantic species that constructs burrows on...

Commercial Colorful Deep Sea Burrowing

6.9 Fair

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Splendid Alfonsino

A circumglobally distributed berycid (Beryx splendens) that aggregates around seamounts at 200–800 m depth and supports...

Commercial Red Deep Sea Bathyal

6.7 Fair

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Canary Rockfish

Sebastes pinniger, the canary rockfish, is a brightly orange-yellow rockfish of the northeast Pacific declared overfishe...

Commercial Pacific Deep Sea Yellow Orange

6.6 Fair

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Alfonsino

A deep-water berycid (Beryx decadactylus) with a wide distribution across tropical and subtropical seas, targeted commer...

Commercial Red Deep Sea Bathyal

6.4 Fair

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Shortspine Thornyhead

A commercially harvested rockfish (Sebastolobus alascanus) of the northeastern Pacific capable of living up to 100 years...

Commercial Pacific Bathyal Scorpaenidae

6.4 Fair

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Blackbelly Rosefish

An ovoviviparous scorpaenid (Helicolenus dactylopterus) found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean at 50–1,000 m, t...

Commercial Mediterranean Deep Sea Bathyal

6.2 Fair

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Ridgehead Fish

A mesopelagic fish of family Melamphaidae named for the prominent ridges and crests on its skull, widely distributed in...

Deep Sea Predator Mesopelagic Melamphaidae

5.9 Mediocre

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Deepsea Whiting

A deep-water fish of family Merlucciidae or a related gadiform group, found in mesopelagic to bathypelagic zones and rel...

Commercial Deep Sea Elongated Bathyal

5.4 Mediocre