Yellow Sea

General data

Water type: Sae
Progression: Pacific Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Temperate
Continents: Asia
Countries: China, North Korea, South Korea

Description

Seas

Bohai Sea

Rivers

Han River (Hangang)

Geum River (Geumgang)

Yeongsan River (Yeongsangang)

Mugiliformes - Mullets

Flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)

Perciformes - Perches

Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

Ambon damsel (Pomacentrus amboinensis)

Golden horsehead tilefish (Branchiostegus auratus)

Japanese silver-biddy (Gerres equulus)

Okinawan Tilefish (Branchiostegus okinawaensis)

Carangiformes - Jacks

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

Striped marlin (Kajikia audax)

Black marlin (Istiompax indica)

Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)

Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus)

Shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)

Japanese jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus)

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)

Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi)

Whitespotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis)

Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Porbeagle (Lamna nasus)

Shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)

Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Smalltooth sand tiger (Odontaspis ferox)

Thresher (Alopias vulpinus)

Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks

Blue shark (Prionace glauca)

Smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena)

Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas)

Broadfin sawtail catshark (Galeus nipponensis)

Orectolobiformes - Carpet shark

Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)

Elopiformes - Tarpons and tenpounders

Indo-Pacific tarpon (Megalops cyprinoides)

Squatiniformes - Angelsharks

Angelshark (Squatina squatina)

Scombriformes - Mackerels

Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)

Atlantic Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus)

Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)

Albacore (Thunnus alalunga)

Pacific Chub Mackerel (Scomber japonicus)

Myliobatiformes - Stingrays

Giant manta ray (Mobula birostris)

Short-tail stingray (Bathytoshia brevicaudata)

Zeiformes - Dories

John Dory (Zeus faber)

Tetraodontiformes - Puffers and filefishes

Ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes

Korean rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii)

False kelpfish (Sebastes marmoratus)

Great sculpin (Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus)

False kelpfish (Sebastiscus marmoratus)

Kelp greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)

Okhotsk atka mackerel (Pleurogrammus azonus)

Fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis)

Wolf eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)

Saitone prickleback (Chirolophis saitone)

Rock greenling (Hexagrammos lagocephalus)

Spotty-bellied greenling (Hexagrammos agrammus)

Masked greenling (Hexagrammos octogrammus)

Goldeye rockfish (Sebastes thompsoni)

Brassblotched Rockfish (Sebastes pachycephalus)

Japanese Red Rockfish (Sebastes inermis)

Pacific staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus)

Japanese White Seaperch (Sebastes cheni)

Gilbert’s Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus gilberti)

Red Irish lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus)

Spiny red gurnard (Chelidonichthys spinosus)

Abyssal searobin (Lepidotrigla abyssalis)

Japanese red gurnard (Lepidotrigla microptera)

Whitespotted greenling (Hexagrammos stelleri)

Tidepool sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus)

Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria)

Lampriformes - Lamprids

Giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne)

Blackflash ribbonfish (Trachipterus jacksonensis)

Mediterranean dealfish (Trachipterus trachypterus)

Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks

Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi)

Myxiniformes - Hagfishes

Honshu hagfish (Eptatretus okinoseanus)

Gadiformes - Cods

Abyssal grenadier (Coryphaenoides armatus)

Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)

Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus)

Japanese codling (Physiculus japonicus)

Common mora (Mora moro)

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Redlip morwong (Goniistius zebra)

Largescale blackfish (Girella punctata)

Yellowstriped butterfish (Labracoglossa argenteiventris)

Anguilliformes - Eels and morays

Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)

Echinorhiniformes - Bramble sharks

Prickly shark (Echinorhinus cookei)

Pristiophoriformes - Saw sharks

Japanese sawshark (Pristiophorus japonicus)

Notacanthiformes - Spiny eels

Snub-nosed spiny eel (Notacanthus chemnitzii)

Saccopharyngiformes - Swallowers and Gulpers

Pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides)

Alepocephaliformes - Slickheads and tubeshoulders

California slickhead (Alepocephalus tenebrosus)

Polymixiiformes - Beardfishes

Silver eye (Polymixia japonica)

Beryciformes - Sawbellies

Alfonsino (Beryx decadactylus)

Trachichthyiformes - Rughies

Big roughy (Gephyroberyx japonicus)

Ophidiiformes - Cusk-eels

Pudgy cuskeel (Spectrunculus grandis)

Brunswig's Cusk-eel (Lamprogrammus brunswigi)

Acropomatiformes - Oceanic basses

Giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas)

Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus)

Gobiiformes - Gobies

Korean tripletooth goby (Tridentiger brevispinis)

Dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus)

Chameleon goby (Tridentiger trigonocephalus)

Clupeiformes - Herrings

Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax)

Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)

Osmeriformes - Smelts

Ayu sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis)

Acanthuriformes - Surgeonfishes

Silver croaker (Pennahia argentata)

Honnibe croaker (Nibea mitsukurii)

Spotnape ponyfish (Nuchequula nuchalis)

Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes

Slime flounder (Microstomus achne)

Roughscale sole (Clidoderma asperrimum)

Stone flounder (Platichthys bicoloratus)

Ridged-eye flounder (Pleuronichthys cornutus)

Shotted halibut (Eopsetta grigorjewi)

Starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus)

Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis)

Hexanchiformes - Six-gill sharks

Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus)

Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes

Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus)

Spariformes - Breams and porgies

Japanese sillago (Sillago japonica)

Holocentriformes - Squirrelfishes

Kochi soldierfish (Myripristis kochiensis)

Rajiformes - Skates and rays

Acutenose skate (Dipturus tengu)

Catches