Elephant fish-fake and real. The left photo depicts Elephant fish, fake, not real, the image was shared on a social site, as a real elephant fish. The distant relative of sharks, skates and stingrays Elephant fish is also known as Silver Trumpeter, Whitefish (in Australia), Makorepe, Reperepe (in Maori), Callorhinchus Milii is its scientific name. The elephant fish lives in deep water off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, but migrates annually into shallow coastal bays to lay their eggs. And this yellow image of Elephant Fish, so liked on the net, is just a work of photoshop.