Exodus 20:13 ESV / 193 helpful votes

You shall not murder.

Leviticus 24:17 ESV / 192 helpful votes

Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

Matthew 5:21-26 ESV / 126 helpful votes

You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not murder; and whoever murders
will be liable to judgment. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will
be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever
says, You fool! will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before
the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Come
to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser
hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. ...

Romans 12:19 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written,
Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

1 John 3:12 ESV / 72 helpful votes

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did
he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 42 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and
sulfur, which is the second death.

Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to him, Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will
perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once
send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled,
that it must be so?

1 John 3:15 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal
life abiding in him.
Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise
you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it
very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately
woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were
written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none
of them.

Deuteronomy 5:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes

You shall not murder.

John 14:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have
from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your
body.

Ecclesiastes 3:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Bible quotes used to argue AGAINST Euthanasia

Christians believe that all humans are made in God's image, and are therefore sacred. The
following sanctity of life teachings could be applied to euthanasia:
In the image of God Genesis 1:26

Do not kill Exodus 20:13

You yourselves are God's temple - 1 Corinthians 3:16

The book of Job deals with the immense suffering that Job endures. By the end of the book,
Job begins to argue with God. However, Job ultimately accepts that God has a greater plan
than he can comprehend. The most useful passage, echoed elsewhere in the Bible, is:

"The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away" - Job 1:21

"My times are in thy hand..." - Psalms 31:15

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before
thy time? - Ecclesiastes 7:17
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that
which is planted - Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

"No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day
of his death." -Ecclesiastes 8:8

Abortion:

If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there

is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the womans husband demands

and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life Exodus 21:22-

23

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Suicide

2280 Everyone is responsible for his life before God who has given it to him. It is God who

remains the sovereign Master of life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it

for his honor and the salvation of our souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has

entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of.

2281 Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and

perpetuate his life. It is gravely contrary to the just love of self. It likewise offends love of

neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other

human societies to which we continue to have obligations. Suicide is contrary to love for the

living God.
2282 If suicide is committed with the intention of setting an example, especially to the

young, it also takes on the gravity of scandal. Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to

the moral law.

Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture

can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide.

2283 We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own

lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance.

The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.

Abortion

2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of
conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as
having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to
life.72

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated
you.73

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately
wrought in the depths of the earth.74

2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured
abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is
to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:

You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish. 75

God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and
men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with
the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are
abominable crimes.76

2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches
the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who
procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,"77 "by the very
commission of the offense,"78 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.79 The
Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the
gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to
death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.

2273 The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive
element of a civil society and its legislation:

"The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and
the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on
parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to
human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the
person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard
every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until
death."80

"The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which
civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law.
When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in
particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are
undermined. . . . As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for
the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal
sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights."81

2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended
in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.

Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the
human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is
gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an
abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death
sentence."82

2275 "One must hold as licit procedures carried out on the human embryo which respect
the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but are
directed toward its healing the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual
survival."83

"It is immoral to produce human embryos intended for exploitation as disposable biological
material."84

"Certain attempts to influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic but
are aimed at producing human beings selected according to sex or other predetermined
qualities. Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and
his integrity and identity"85 which are unique and unrepeatable.

Euthanasia
2276 Those whose lives are diminished or weakened deserve special respect. Sick or
handicapped persons should be helped to lead lives as normal as possible.

2277 Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the
lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable.

Thus an act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate
suffering constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to
the respect due to the living God, his Creator. The error of judgment into which one can fall
in good faith does not change the nature of this murderous act, which must always be
forbidden and excluded.

2278 Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or

disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of "over-
zealous" treatment. Here one does not will to cause death; one's inability to impede it is
merely accepted. The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able
or, if not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will and
legitimate interests must always be respected.

2279 Even if death is thought imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be
legitimately interrupted. The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even
at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity if death
is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and tolerated as inevitable
Palliative care is a special form of disinterested charity. As such it should be encouraged.

Suicide

2280 Everyone is responsible for his life before God who has given it to him. It is God who
remains the sovereign Master of life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it
for his honor and the salvation of our souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has
entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of.

2281 Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and
perpetuate his life. It is gravely contrary to the just love of self. It likewise offends love of
neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other
human societies to which we continue to have obligations. Suicide is contrary to love for the
living God.

2282 If suicide is committed with the intention of setting an example, especially to the
young, it also takes on the gravity of scandal. Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to
the moral law.

Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture

can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide.

2283 We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own
lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance.
The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.
Bony Fishes

Bony fishes are a group of aquatic vertebrates characterized by having a bony skeleton (in
contrast to the cartilaginous fishes, a group whose skeleton consists of cartilage, not bone).
Bony fishes include two sub groups, the ray-finned fishes and the lobe-finned fishes.
Bony fishes are the most diverse of all groups of fishes, and are also the most diverse group
of vertebrates alive today, with approximately 29,000 living species. Bony fishes possess
a skeleton that is made of true bone. Other characteristics of bony fishes are that they
use gills to breath, they have color vision, and they have a swim bladder.

Cartilaginous Fish

Cartilaginous fish are so named because instead of bony skeletons, their body frame
consists of cartilage. Tough and flexible, cartilage provides enough structural support to
enable these fish to grow to incredible sizes. Cartilaginous fish include sharks, rays, skates
and chimaeras.

Cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) are a group of vertebrates that includes sharks, rays,
skates and chimaeras. Members of this group include the largest and most formidable
marine predators alive today such as the great white shark and the tiger shark as well as
large filter feeders such as the manta ray, whale shark and basking shark.

Cartilaginous fishes have a skeleton that consists of cartilage (in contrast to their cousins the
bony fish, whose skeletons are made up of true bone).

Cartilage is both tough and flexible and it provides sufficient structural support to enable
cartilaginous fishes to grow to considerable size. The largest living cartilaginous fish is
the whale shark (about 30 feet long and 10 tons). The largest known cartilaginous fish ever
to have lived is Megalodon (about 70 feet long and 50-100 tons). Other large cartilaginous
fish include the manta ray (about 30 feet long) and the basking shark (about 40 feet long
and 19 tons).

Small cartilaginous fishes include the short-nose electric ray (about 4 inches long and
weighs 1 pound), the starry skate (about 30 inches long), the pale catshark (about 8 inches
long) and the dwarf lantern shark (about 7 inches long).

Cartilaginous fishes is that they have jaws, paired fins, paired nostrils and a two-chambered
heart. They also have tough skin that is covered with small tooth-like scales called denticles.
Denticles are similar to teeth in many ways. The core of a denticle consists of a pulp cavity
 that receives blood flow for nourishment. The pulp cavity is capped with a cone-shaped layer
of dentine. The denticle sits on top of a basal plate which overlies the dermis.

Classification

Cartilaginous fishes are classified within the following taxonomic hierarchy:

Animals > Chordates > Vertebrates > Cartilaginous Fishes

Cartilaginous fishes are divided into the following basic groups:

Sharks, rays, and skates (Elasmobranchii)

Chimaeras (Chimaeriformes)

Lampreys and Hagfishes

There are about 40 species of lamprey alive today. Members of this group include pouched
lampreys, Chilean lampreys, Australian lampreys, northern lampreys, and others. Lampreys
are jawless vertebrates that have a long narrow body. They lack scales and have a sucker-
like mouth.

Lampreys (Hyperoartia) are a group of vertebrates that include about 40 living species.
Members of this group are jawless, have no scales, and have a round mouth that contains
rows of horny teeth. Lampreys are aquatic animals that inhabit temperate rivers and coastal
marine waters. Lampreys have long slender bodies that are between 5 and 40 inches long.
Lampreys resemble eels, although the two groups are not closely related.

They have large eyes, seven external gill slits on the side of the head and lack paired fins.
Lampreys are anadromous, which means they migrate up freshwater rivers to span and then
return to sea.

Some lampreys are parasitic. Parasitic lampreys feed on their prey by using their sucker-like
mouth to attach to their host prey. They use their teeth to cut through the host's skin so they
can feed on their host's blood. Other lampreys are non-parasitic. Non-parasitic lampreys are
freshwater species. As adults, non-parasitic lampreys never feed, they live solely off of
reserves they built up during the ammocoetes stage in their life cycle.

Key features:

long slender body with naked (scale-less) skin

no paired appendages
 one or two dorsal fins

cartilaginous skeleton

sucker-like oral disc

well-developed keratinized teeth

seven pairs of gills

dorsal nerve cord and differentiated brain

sense organs that perceive taste, smell, sound, sight

no distinct stomach

Classification:

Animals > Chordates > Vertebrates > Lampreys

Lampreys are divided into the following basic groups:

Pouched lamprey (Geotriidae) - The pouched lamprey occurs in the southern

hemisphere. It lives in the southern areas of Australia as well as New Zealand, Argentina and
Chile.

Southern topeyed lampreys (Mordaciidae) - Southern topeyed lampreys include the

Chilean lamprey, Australian lamprey and the Australian brook lamprey.

Northern lampreys (Petromyzontidae) - Northern lampreys inhabit temperate marine

and freshwater habitats in the northern hemisphere.

Fresh whole fish should have bright, clear eyes; skin should be shiny, firm and elastic to the
touch, gills should be red not brown, and if gutted, the cavity should be clean.

Fresh bi-valve molluscs should be tightly closed or close on tapping, with no cracks in the
shells.

Live crustaceans should react to being touched, and the tail should fold under the body of
live Lobsters, Langoustines and Crayfish.

Smoked fish should be glossy, with no gaping or discolouration, and should smell fresh and
smoky.
Shell Fish
-has a fresh smell
-should be marketed value
-should be free from red tide
-the taste is sweet

When buying fish and shellfish, freshness is the most important factor. If you dont know how
to buy fish, use your eyes and nose to seek out telltale signs of quality.

In a whole fish, the eyes should be bright and clear not cloudy or sunken in. The

gills of fresh fish are deep red, not brownish. The skin should be firm, clear, and bright
with no trace of slime.

Fish thats fresh from the ocean smells like the ocean briny, fresh, and mild. If it

smells sour or has a strong fishy odor, shop elsewhere.

If possible, get fresh-cut fillets from whole fish. Purchase precut fillets only if theyre

displayed on a bed of ice, not sealed under plastic, which can trap bacteria and foul
odors. Fillets should look moist and lie flat, with no curling at the edges.

Fish falls into two broad categories:

Lean fish include mild-tasting sole, flounder, snapper, cod, halibut, and haddock.

Oily fish have more intense flavor, higher levels of heart-healthy omega fatty acids,

and generally darker flesh. These include bluefish, mackerel, salmon, swordfish, and
tuna.

Theres nothing like fresh seafood. And you can find many kinds of quality fish and other
seafood at your local supermarket.

Bluefish: Rich flavor, especially when fresh and under 2 pounds. Bake or broil.

Catfish: Dense, relatively mild fish. Usually cooked in a strong sauce or deep-fried.

Cod: Mild-flavored, white, firm flesh. Can be broiled, baked, fried, or braised.
 Haddock: Meaty, white flesh, mild flavor. Good pan-fried or braised.

Porgy: Firm, low-fat, white-fleshed fish with delicate flavor. Excellent grilled or

broiled.

Tilapia: Farm-raised fish with a mild flavor.

Whiting (silver hake): Fine, semifirm white flesh. Subtle and delicious when broiled

or pan-fried.

Shellfish: Should be firmly closed and odorless when purchased. Eat fresh clams,

oysters, and mussels as soon as possible. Store for no more than 24 hours in the
refrigerator in a plastic bag poked with small holes, allowing air to circulate. Never
overcook shellfish because it gets rubbery.

Shrimp: Its best to purchase shrimp in the shell. Eat shrimp the same day you

purchase it.

Health Benefits of Fish

Healthy Diet

Fish is a low-fat high quality protein. Fish is filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins
such as D and B2 (riboflavin). Fish is rich in calcium and phosphorus and a great source of
minerals, such as iron, zinc, iodine, magnesium, and potassium. The American Heart
Association recommends eating fish at least two times per week as part of a healthy diet.
Fish is packed with protein, vitamins, and nutrients that can lower blood pressure and help
reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke.

Healthy Fish Recipes

Learn how to properly cook fish and try some healthy recipes.
Healthy Fish Guide
Choose seafood that's low in contaminants and high in health benefits.

Healthy Heart and Brain

Eating fish is an important source of omega-3 fatty acids. These essential nutrients keep
our heart and brain healthy. Two omega-3 fatty acids found in fish are EPA
(eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). Our bodies don't produce
omega-3 fatty acids so we must get them through the food we eat. Omega-3 fatty acids are
found in every kind of fish, but are especially high in fatty fish. Some good choices are
salmon, trout, sardines, herring, canned mackerel, canned light tuna, and oysters.
 Omega-3 Fatty Acids:

Help maintain a healthy heart by lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of
sudden death, heart attack, abnormal heart rhythms, and strokes.
Aid healthy brain function and infant development of vision and nerves during
pregnancy.
May decrease the risk of depression, ADHD, Alzheimers disease, dementia, and
diabetes.
May prevent inflammation and reduce the risk of arthritis.

Cultural Importance

Fish is an important cultural icon in Washington State that defines a recreational as well as
a spiritual way of life in the Pacific Northwest. Fish is not only an important source of
nutrition, the act of catching, preparing, and eating fish are important cultural and family
practices as well. To Native American Indian Tribes of Washington, fish, especially salmon,
are an integral part of their lives, and serve as a symbol of their prosperity, culture, and
heritage.

Philippine Fish
Species - List of
Common Fish in the
Philippines
A list of Philippine fish names in English and Filipino (Tagalog), with some scientific names
and fish pictures to help identify particular Filipino fish species found in local fish markets:

Agoot - grunt
Alakaak - croaker
Alumahan - long-jawed mackerel / Indian mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta)
Alumahang bato - chub mackerel (e.g. Scomber japonicus)
Apahap - barramundi, seaperch
Asohos - sillago / whiting (e.g. Sillago sihama)
Ayungin - silver perch / silver theraponid (Leiopotherapon plumbeus)
Babansi / bagaong - terapon (e.g. Terapon jarbua)
Bakoko - grunt (e.g. Pomadasys argenteus), seabream, sweet lips
 Banak / asubi / talilong - mullet
Bangus - milkfish (Chanos chanos)
Bidbid - Hawaiian ladyfish (Elops hawaiensis)
Biloan - lattice monocle bream (Scolopsis taeniopterus) [?]

Bisugo
Bisugo - threadfin bream (e.g. Nemipterus japonicus), jobfish, goatfish
Bitilya - emperor (e.g. Lethrinus lentjan)
Biya - goby (generally, some exceptions)
Buan-buan - Indo-Pacific tarpon (Megalops cyprinoides)
Burara - bigeye snapper (Lutjanus lutjanus) [?]
Chabeta / hiwas - moonfish (Mene maculata)
Dalag - mudfish / striped snakehead (Channa striata)
Dalag-dagat - cobia (Rachycentron canadum)
Dalagang bukid - fusilier
Danggit - rabbitfish
Dapa - flounder, sole (flatfish)
Dilat - red bigeye (Priacanthus macracanthus)
Dilis - anchovy
o Twakang - Commerson's anchovy (Stolephorus commersonnii), Indian
anchovy (Stolephorus indicus)
Dorado - dolphinfish / mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), queenfish
Dulong - lacustrine goby (Gobiopterus lacustris)

Espada
Espada - beltfish / largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus)
Galunggong - mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus), Indian scad / Russell's
mackerel scad (Decapterus russelli), scad (various - usually scads with longer narrower
bodies)
Gulyasan - skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
Hasa-hasa / kabalyas / kabayas - short mackerel (Rastrelliger brachysoma)
Hito - catfish (black, e.g. Clarias batrachus)
Igat / palos - eel
Isu - mangrove red snapper (Lutjanus argentimaculatus)
Kabasi - gizzard shad (e.g. Nematalosa nasus, Anodontostoma chacunda)
 Kalaso - lizardfish
Kanduli - catfish (silver, e.g. Arius manillensis)
Kitang - spotted scat (Scatophagus argus)
Labahita - surgeonfish, unicornfish
Lao-lao / lawlaw - deepbody sardinella (Sardinella brachysoma)
Lapu-lapu - grouper (e.g. Epinephelus coioides)
Lohoran - crimson snapper (Lutjanus erythropterus) [?]
Loro - parrotfish

Malakapas
Ludong - lobed river mullet (Cestraeus plicatilis)
Malaga - vermiculated spinefoot (Siganus vermiculatus)
Malakapas - mojarra, silver-biddy
Malasugi - blue marlin, swordfish
Mamali - fourfinger threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum)
Liwalo / Martiniko - climbing perch (Anabas testudineus)
Matangbaka - oxeye scad (Selar boops), bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus)
Maya-maya / bambangin / pargo - snapper (e.g. Lutjanus malabaricus)
Pampano - pomfret and pompano (e.g. Parastromateus niger)
Sagisi / tikwi - deepwater red snapper (Etelis carbunculus), deepwater longtail red
snapper (Etelis coruscans)
Samaral - goldlined spinefoot (Siganus guttatus)

Salay ginto - Yellowstripe scad

Salay-salay - yellowstripe scad (Selaroides leptolepis), herring scad (Alepes vari),
scad (various - usually rounder wider scads with yellow marking)
o Salay-salay aso / salingga - shrimp scad (Alepes djedaba)
o Salay batang / kalapato - yellowtail scad (Atule mate)
Sapsap - ponyfish / slipmouth
Silinyasi / tunsoy - fringescale sardinella (Sardinella fimbriata)
Sinarapan - Mistichthys luzonensis
Taksay - toothpony (Gazza minuta)
Talakitok / maliputo - trevally / jack / cavalla (e.g. Caranx ignobilis)
Talimusak - maned goby (Oxyurichthys microlepis)
 Tambakol - yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)
Tamban - sardine
Tanigue / tangigue - Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus
commerson), Indo-Pacific king mackerel (Scomberomorus guttatus), wahoo (Acanthocybium
solandri)

Torsilyo
Tawilis - freshwater sardinella (Sardinella tawilis)
Tilapia / pla pla - tilapia (e.g. Oreochromis niloticus)
Torsilyo - barracuda
Tulingan - kawakawa / mackerel tuna (Euthynnus affinis), bullet tuna (Auxis rochei),
frigate tuna (Auxis thazard)

Other Fish:
Ataba - archerfish
Balo - needlefish
Bolador - flying fish (e.g. Cypselurus opisthopus)
Kansusuit - garfish
Maming - wrasse
Paru-parong dagat - butterflyfish

Mollusks, Crustaceans, and other Shellfish:

Alimasag - crab Portunidae spp. (e.g. blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus), coral
crab (Charybdis feriatus)
Alimango - mud crab
o Putian / bulik - Indo-Pacific swamp crab / mangrove king crab (Scylla serrata)
o Pulahan - orange mud crab (Scylla olivacea)
Alupihang-dagat - mantis shrimp
Banagan - spiny lobster (e.g. Panulirus ornatus)
Canoos / hibya - cuttlefish
Curacha - spanner crab / red frog crab (Ranina ranina)
Diwal - Pacific angelwing clam (Pholas orientalis)
Halaan - clam (e.g. Manila clam / Japanese carpet shell, Ruditapes philippinarum)
o Tulya - Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea previously also known as Corbicula
manilensis)
Hipon - shrimp (e.g. whiteleg shrimp, Penaeus vannamei)
o Swahe / suahe - endeavor prawn (e.g. red endeavor prawn / greasy back
shrimp,Metapenaeus ensis)
Kuhol - snail (Pila luzonica)
 Pitik-pitik - slipper lobster (e.g. Thenus orientalis)
Pugita - octopus
Pusit - squid

Pusit lumot
o Pusit Bisaya - smaller pink-speckled squid (Indian squid -Loligo duvauceli [?])
o Pusit lumot - larger dark-speckled squid (bigfin reef squid -Sepioteuthis
lessoniana [?])
Sugpo - prawn (e.g. Penaeus monodon)
Sus - snail
Tahong - mussel (e.g. Perna viridis)
Talaba - oyster (e.g. Crassostrea iredalei)
Talangka - shore crab (Varuna litterata)
Tuyom - sea urchin
Ulang - giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), crayfish, lobster

Other Sea Creatures and Aquatic Species:

Arosep / lato - sea grape seaweed (Caulerpa lentillifera, Caulerpa racemosa)
Balatan - sea cucumber
Balyena - whale
Bulate - sea worm
Butanding - whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Dikya - jellyfish
Guso - seaweed (e.g. Eucheuma spp.)
Pagi - ray
Pating - shark
External features

Nostrils. The nostrils of fish do not open into the back of the mouth as do those of
mammals, and are not, therefore, for breathing. They lead into organs of smell which are as
a rule, very sensitive, so that a fish can detect the presence of food in the water at
considerable distances.

Eyes. The eyes of a fish have large round pupils which do not vary in size.

Hearing. Although fish have no ears visible externally they can hear by transmission of
vibrations through the body to sensitive regions of the inner ear.
Mouth. The mouth serves for taking in food; also for the breathing current of water. Some
fish have a wide gape, and filter microscopic plants and animals out of the surface waters
as they swim along, trapping them in gill rakers before the water is expelled from the
operculum.

The operculum is a bony structure covering and protecting the gills in teleosts; it plays an
important part in the breathing mechanism. Elasmobranchs do not have an operculum but
there are separate gill slits for each gill.

The lateral line is a jelly-filled tube or canal just below the skin. It opens to the water
outside by a series of tiny pores. Its function is to detect movements in the water. A
disturbance set up, for example, by a person's hand moving in the water, will cause the
jelly in the tube to vibrate. The canal is lined with nerve endings which are stimulated by
vibrations and send impulses to the brain. In this way the fish is made aware of the
direction and intensity of water movements. The sensitivity of this system makes even a
blind fish very difficult to catch by hand.

Fins give stability, and control the direction of movement during swimming, as explained
later.