identifying by silhouette

Shape before species sheets. The following pages present every family in this book as silhouettes, sorted by habitat and then by body shape: streamlined fish of the open sea, compressed reef fish, flat fish of the sand, elongated fish of the estuaries. Find the silhouette closest to your fish, follow the number: you are on the species sheet in less than a minute.

Large offshore pelagics

1 Yellowfin tuna2 Bigeye tuna3 Little tunny4 Skipjack tuna5 Bullet tuna6 Atlantic bonito7 Atlantic chub mackerel8 West African Spanish mackerel9 Wahoo10 Common dolphinfish11 Rainbow runner (code ASFIS : RRU)12 Swordfish13 Merlu14 Atlantic sailfish15 Atlantic blue marlin

Coastal predators and jacks

16 Crevalle jack17 Blue runner18 Senegal jack19 African moonfish20 Atlantic bumper21 Cunene horse mackerel22 Shortfin pompano23 Pompano24 Longfin pompano25 Guinean barracuda26 Guachanche barracuda27 Largehead hairtail28 Mafou (Cobia)

Coastal bottom fish

29 White grouper30 Mérou de Gorée (African hind)31 Canary dentex32 Denté à bosse (Pink dentex)33 Denté de l'Angola (Angolan dentex)34 Pagre à points bleus (Bluespotted seabream)35 Pageot à têche rouge (Red pandora)36 Bogue37 West African goatfish38 Vivaneau à dents de chien (African brown snapper)39 Vivaneau guinéen (African red snapper)40 Vivaneau doré (Golden African snapper)41 Vivaneau de Gorée (Gorean snapper)42 Grogneur sompat (Sompat grunt)43 Grogneur de Roger (Pigsnout grunt)44 Grogneur métis (Bastard grunt)45 Diagramme gris (Rubberlip grunt)46 Baliste cabri (Grey triggerfish)47 Baliste à taches (Bluespotted triggerfish)48 Red scorpionfish49 Croupia roche (Tripletail)50 Saint-Pierre (John Dory)51 Smooth puffer

Deep-water fish

52 Tile à bandes (Zigzag tilefish)53 Brotule barbée (Bearded brotula)54 Hoplostète (Mediterranean slimehead)55 Rascasse de Kuhl (Offshore rockfish)56 Grondin volant (Flying gurnard)57 Anoli de mer (Snakefish)

Flatfish and sand dwellers

58 Turbot épineux (Spottail spiny turbot)59 Sole-langue de Monod (Guinean tonguesole)60 Petite sole (Frechkop's sole)61 Fiatole (Blue butterfish)

Lagoon and estuary fish

62 Blackchin tilapia63 Bagrid catfish64 Mâchoiron à grandes plaques (Rough-head sea catfish)65 Bonga shad66 Sardinelle ronde (Round sardinella)67 Sardinelle plate (Madeiran sardinella)68 Flathead grey mullet69 Mulet curème (Sicklefin mullet)70 Grand capitaine (Giant African threadfin)71 Petit capitaine (Lesser African threadfin)72 Disque africain (African sicklefish)73 Spadefish de Gorée (West African spadefish)74 Sole-lune africaine (African moony)75 Cassava croaker76 Otolithe nanka (Longneck croaker)77 Comète maquereau (False scad)78 Murène-brochet féroce (Guinean pike conger)

Sharks and rays

79 Émissole lisse (Common smooth-hound)80 Requin bleu (Blue shark)81 Requin-marteau halicorne (Scalloped hammerhead)82 Daisy stingray83 Spiny butterfly ray84 Common guitarfish85 Common torpedo (ocellate torpedo)86 Largetooth sawfish

Freshwater fish (rivers)

87 West African lungfish88 African bonytongue89 Elephant-snout fish90 Electric catfish91 Aba aba, African knifefish92 Nile perch93 Tigerfish94 Nile tilapia95 Redbelly tilapia96 Banded jewelfish97 African sharptooth catfish98 Sampa, vundu catfish99 Upside-down catfish (group)100 Bayad101 Giraffe catfish102 Senegal bichir103 African snakehead104 African carp (group Labeo)105 Grass eater (group Distichodus)106 Large-scale silverside (group Brycinus)