Anguilliformes - Eels and morays
Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts
Mugiliformes - Mullets
Perciformes - Perches
Moroniformes - Temperate basses
Scombriformes - Mackerels
Gadiformes - Cods
Spariformes - Breams and porgies
Carangiformes - Jacks
Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks
Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks
Orectolobiformes - Carpet shark
Myliobatiformes - Stingrays
Myxiniformes - Hagfishes
Tetraodontiformes - Puffers and filefishes
Dactylopteriformes - Flying gurnards
Lampriformes - Lamprids
Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks
Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes
Acanthuriformes - Surgeonfishes
Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes
Lophiiformes - Anglerfishes
Batrachoidiformes - Toadfishes
Aulopiformes - Grinners
Clupeiformes - Herrings
Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish
Gasterosteiformes - Sticklebacks
Cyprinodontiformes - Toothcarps
Notacanthiformes - Spiny eels
Saccopharyngiformes - Swallowers and Gulpers
Myctophiformes - Lanternfishes
Beryciformes - Sawbellies
Ophidiiformes - Cusk-eels
Acropomatiformes - Oceanic basses
Labriformes - Wrasses
Rajiformes - Skates and rays
Gobiiformes - Gobies
Blenniiformes - Blennies
Hexanchiformes - Six-gill sharks
Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes
The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America. It is bounded by Cape Cod at the eastern tip of Massachusetts in the southwest and by Cape Sable Island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia in the northeast. The gulf includes the entire coastlines of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine, as well as Massachusetts north of Cape Cod, and the southern and western coastlines of the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, respectively.
The gulf was named for the adjoining English colonial Province of Maine, which was in turn likely named by early explorers after the province of Maine in France. Massachusetts Bay, Penobscot Bay, Passamaquoddy Bay, and the Bay of Fundy are all arms of the Gulf of Maine.
