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Old 02-27-2004, 10:01 PM   #8
madrasahs
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The first picture -- the silver fish with the unequal jaws -- is commonly called a garfish in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is one of several generically-described "needlefish", "stickfish", or "aha". Needlefish species are found in freshwater and saltwater.

It is unlike our much chunkier Western Hemisphere freshwater and brackish-water mottled/spotted garfish.

A houndfish is a silver, saltwater, large needlefish with a green back, and whose jaws are equal in length.
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