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Bonefish
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a fish belonging to either of two species of the family Albulidae. Albula vulpes is widespread in warm, shallow marine waters, and Dixonina nemoptera is found only in the West Indies.
Bonefish spawning occurs year round in deep water where currents can easily disperse the developing eggs and larvae to other locations. The fish are generally less reproductively active during the hotter summer months.
Bonefish: Albula vulpes
Appearance:
Silvery, with torpedo-shaped body and conical snout.
The bonefishes are brackish or saltwater fish typically living in estuaries and travelling out to sea to spawn on a lunar cycle. They feed in the shallow sand and mud flats, on animals that live on the bottom like worms, mollusks, shrimps, and crabs.
Discussion Bonefish root in the bottom for their invertebrate prey, often in water so shallow that the caudal and dorsal fins break the surface.
bonefishes
NOTACANTHIFORMES
halosaurs, spiny eels
ANGUILLIFORMES
Includes freshwater eels, spaghetti eels, false morays, morays, arrowtooth eels, cutthroat eels, pugnose eels, snake eels, worm eels, conger eels, pike conger eels, longneck eels, ...
Water FunFISH-SEAWATER: Banggai Cardinalfish, Bay Pipefish, Batfish (Platax pinnatus), Bay Pipefish, Bird Wrasse, Black And Yellow Rockfish, Blackcap Basslet, Blacksmith, Blue Faced Angelfish, Blue Tang, Boccacio, Bonefish, Boxfish, ...
 See also: Shrimp, Bass, Ray, Sculpin, Ladyfish
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