# List of freshwater fishes of Korea

This is a list of species of fish found in the rivers and lakes of the Korean Peninsula.

## Lampreys

* Eudontomyzon morii (Berg, 1931) – Korean lamprey (칠성말배꼽)
* Lethenteron camtschaticum (Tilesius, 1811) – Arctic lamprey (칠성장어)
* Lethenteron reissneri (Dybowski, 1869) – Far Eastern brook lamprey (다묵장어)

## Sturgeons and paddlefish

* Acipenser dabryanus (Dumeril, 1868) – Yangtze sturgeon (칼상어)
* Acipenser medirostris (Ayres, 1854) – green sturgeon (용상어)
* Acipenser sinensis (Gray, 1834) – Chinese sturgeon (철갑상어)

## Eels

* Anguilla japonica (Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese eel (뱀장어)
* Anguilla marmorata (Quoy and Gaiamard, 1824) – marbled eel (무태장어)

## Herring

* Coilia mystus (Linnaeus, 1758) – tapertail anchovy (싱어)
* Coilia nasus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese grenadier anchovy (웅어)
* Konosirus punctatus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – dotted gizzard shad (전어)
* Sardinella zunasi (Bleeker, 1854) – Japanese sardinella (밴댕이)

## Carp, minnows and loaches

* Abbottina rivularis (Basilewsky, 1855) – Chinese false gudgeon (버들매치)
* Abbottina springeri (Banarescu et Nalbant, 1973) (왜매치)
* Acanthorhodeus chankaensis (Dybowski, 1872) – Khanka spiny bitterling (가시납지리)
* Acanthorhodeus macropterus Bleeker, 1871 (큰납지리)
* Acheilognathus hondae (Jordan et Metz, 1913) (서호납줄갱이)
* Acheilognathus koreensis (Kim et Kim, 1990) (칼납자루)
* Acheilognathus majusculus (Kim et Yang, 1998) (큰줄납자루)
* Acheilognathus rhombeus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) (납지리)
* Acheilognathus signifer (Berg, 1907) (묵납자루)
* Acheilognathus somjinensis (Kim et Kim, 1991) (임실납자루)
* Acheilognathus yamatsutae (Mori, 1928) (줄납자루)
* Aphyocypris chinensis (Günther, 1868) – Chinese bleak (왜몰개)
* Barbatula nuda (Bleeker, 1865) (대륙종개)
* Barbatula toni (Dybowski, 1869) – bearded stone loach (종개)
* Carassius carassius (Linnaeus, 1758) – crucian carp (붕어)
* Carassius cuvieri (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese crucian carp (떡붕어)
* Chanodichthys erythropterus (Basilewsky, 1855) – redfin culter (강준치)
* Cobitis lutheri (Rendahl, 1935) – Luther's spiny loach (점줄종개)
* Cobitis pacifica (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 1999) (북방종개)
* Cobitis sinensis (Sauvage et Dabryi, 1874) – Siberian spiny loach (기름종개)
* Cobitis tetralineata (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 1999) (줄종개)
* Coreius heterodon (Bleeker, 1865) – brass gudgeon (게톱치)
* Coreoleuciscus splendidus (Mori, 1935) – Korean splendid dace (쉬리)
* Ctenopharyngodon idella (Cuvier et Valenciennes) – grass carp (초어)
* Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus, 1758) – common carp (잉어)
* Gnathopogon strigatus (Regan, 1908) – striped false gudgeon (줄몰개)
* Gobiobotia brevibarba (Mori, 1935) (돌상어)
* Gobiobotia macrocephala (Mori, 1935) (꾸구리)
* Gobiobotia naktongensis (Mori, 1935) (흰수마자)
* Gobio cynocephalus (Dybowski, 1869) – Siberian gudgeon (모샘치)
* Hemibarbus labeo (Pallas, 1707) – steed barbel (누치)
* Hemibarbus longirostris (Regan, 1908) – long-nosed barbel (참마자)
* Hemibarbus mylodon (Berg, 1907) – spotted barbel (어름치)
* Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855) – sharpbelly (살치)
* Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Cuvier et Valenciennes) – silver carp (백련어)
* Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson, 1845) – bighead carp (대두어)
* Iksookimia choii (Kim et Son, 1984) – Miho spine loach (미호종개)
* Iksookimia koreensis (Kim, 1975) – Korean spine loach (참종개)
* Iksookimia longicorpa (Kim, Choi, et Nalbant, 1976) (왕종개)
* Iksookimia pumila (Kim et Lee, 1987) – Puan spine loach (부안종개)
* Iksookimia yongdokensis (Kim et Park, 1997) (동방종개)
* Kichulchoia brevifasciata (Kim et Lee, 1996) – dwarf loach (좀수수치)
* Koreocobitis naktongensis (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 2000) – Nakdong nose loach (얼룩새코미꾸리)
* Koreocobitis rotundicaudata (Wakiya et Mori, 1929) – white nose loach (새코미꾸리)
* Ladislavia taczanowskii (Dybowski, 1869) – Tachanovsky's gudgeon (새미)
* Lefua costata (Kessler, 1876) – eightbarbel loach (쌀미꾸리)
* Leuciscus waleckii (Dybowski, 1869) – Amur ide (야레)
* Mesogobio lachneri (Banarescu et Nalbant, 1973) (압록자그사니)
* Mesogobio tumensis (Chang, 1979) (두만강자그사니)
* Microphysogobio jeoni (Kim et Yang, 1999) (됭경모치)
* Microphysogobio koreensis (Mori, 1935) (모래주사)
* Microphysogobio longidorsalis (Mori, 1935) (배가사리)
* Microphysogobio rapidus (Chae et Yang, 1999) (여울마자)
* Microphysogobio yaluensis (Mori, 1928) (돌마자)
* Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor, 1842) – pond loach (미꾸리)
* Misgurnus mizolepis (Günther, 1888) – Chinese fine-scaled loach (미꾸라지)
* Nipponocypris temminckii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) – dark chub (갈겨니)
* Niwaella multifasciata (Wakiya et Mori, 1929) (수수미꾸리)
* Opsariichthys uncirostris (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) – three-lips (끄리)
* Phoxinus kumgangensis (Kim, 1980) – Kumgang fat minnow (금강모치)
* Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758) – common minnow (연준모치)
* Phoxinus semotilus (Jordan & Starks, 1905) (버들가지)
* Pseudogobio esocinus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) (모래무지)
* Pseudopungtungia nigra (Mori, 1935) – black shiner (감돌고기)
* Pseudopungtungia tenuicorpus (Jeon et Choi, 1980) – slender shiner (가는돌고기)
* Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – stone moroko (참붕어)
* Pungtungia herzi (Herzenstein, 1892) – striped shiner (돌고기)
* Rhynchocypris oxycephalus (Sauvage et Darby, 1874) – Chinese minnow (버들치)
* Rhynchocypris percnurus (Pallas, 1811) – swamp minnow (동버들개)
* Rhynchocypris steindachneri (Dybowski, 1869) – Amur minnow (버들개)
* Rhodeus ocellatus (Kner, 1867) – rosy bitterling (흰줄납줄개)
* Rhodeus pseudosericeus (Arai, Jeon, et Ueda) (한강납줄개)
* Rhodeus notatus (Nichols, 1929) (떡납줄갱이)
* Rhodeus uyekii (Mori, 1935) (각시붕어)
* Sarcocheilichthys czerskii (Berg, 1914) – Chersky's thicklip gudgeon (북방중고기)
* Sarcocheilichthys nigripinnis (Jordan et Hubbs, 1925) – rainbow gudgeon (중고기)
* Sarcocheilichthys variegatus (Mori, 1927) (참중고기)
* Saurogobio dabryi (Bleeker, 1871) – Chinese lizard gudgeon (두우쟁이)
* Squalidus chankaensis Dybowski, 1872 (참몰개)
* Squalidus gracilis (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) (긴몰개)
* Squalidus japonicus (Sauvage, 1883) (몰개)
* Squalidus multimaculatus (Hosoya et Jeon, 1984) – spotted-barbel gudgeon (점몰개)
* Squaliobarbus curriculus (Richardson, 1846) – barbel chub (눈불개)
* Tanakia lanceolata (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) (납자루)
* Tribolodon brandtii (Dybowski, 1872) – Pacific redfin (대황어)
* Tribolodon hakonensis (Günther, 1880) – sea rundace (황어)
* Zacco platypus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – pale chub (피라미)

## Catfish

* Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) – channel catfish (찬넬동자개)
* Leiocassis longirostris (Günther, 1864) – Chinese longsnout catfish (종어)
* Liobagrus andersoni (Regan, 1908) (퉁가리)
* Liobagrus mediadiposalis (Mori, 1936) – south torrent catfish (자가사리)
* Liobagrus obesus (Son, Kim, et Choo, 1987) – bullhead torrent catfish (퉁사리)
* Pelteobagrus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872) – Ussurian bullhead (대농갱이)
* Pseudobagrus brevicorpus (Mori, 1936) – Korean stumpy bullhead (꼬치동자개)
* Pseudobagrus koreanus (Uchida, 1990) – black bullhead (눈동자개)
* Silurus asotus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Amur catfish (메기)
* Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936) – slender catfish (미유기)
* Tachysurus fulvidraco (Richardson, 1846) – yellow catfish (동자개)
* Tachysurus nitidus (Sauvage et Dabryi, 1874) (밀자개)

## Smelt

* Hypomesus nipponensis (McAllister, 1963) – wakasagi (빙어)
* Neosalanx anderssoni (Rendahl, 1923) – Andersson's icefish (도화뱅어)
* Neosalanx hubbsi (Wakiya et Takahashi, 1937) (실뱅어)
* Neosalanx jordani (Wakiya et Takahashi, 1937) (젓뱅어)
* Plecoglossus altivelis (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – ayu (은어)
* Protosalanx chinensis (Basilewsky, 1855) (붕퉁뱅어)
* Salangichthys microdon (Bleeker, 1860) – Japanese icefish (뱅어)
* Salanx ariakensis (Kishinouye, 1901) – Ariake icefish (국수뱅어)
* Salanx prognathus (Regan, 1908) (벚꽃뱅어)

## Salmonids

* Brachymystax lenok (Pallas, 1773) – lenok (열목어)
* Hucho ishikawae (Mori, 1928) – Korean taimen (자치)
* Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) – pink salmon (곱사연어)
* Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum, 1792) – chum salmon (연어)
* Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum, 1792) – coho salmon (은연어)
* Oncorhynchus masou (Brevoort, 1856) – masu salmon (송어)
* Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) – rainbow trout (무지개송어)
* Salvelinus leucomaenis (Pallas, 1811) – white-spotted char (홍송어)
* Salvelinus malma (Walbaum, 1792) – Dolly Varden (곤들매기)
* Thymallus yaluensis (Mori, 1928) (사루기)

## Cod

* Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758) – burbot (모오캐)

## Mullets

* Liza affinis (Günther, 1861) – eastern keelback mullet (등줄숭어)
* Liza haematocheilus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – haarder (가숭어)
* Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) – flathead mullet (숭어)

## Perch-like fish

* Acanthogobius elongatus (Ni et Wu, 1985) (왜풀망둑)
* Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – yellowfin goby (문절망둑)
* Acanthogobius lactipes (Hilgendorf, 1879) (흰발망둑)
* Acanthogobius luridus (Ni et Wu, 1985) (비늘흰발망둑)
* Acentrogobius pellidebilis (Lee et Kim, 1992) (점줄망둑)
* Acentrogobius pflaumii (Bleeker, 1853) – striped sand goby (줄망둑)
* Bathygobius fuscus (Ruppel, 1830) – dusky frillgoby (무늬망둑)
* Boleophthalmus pectinirostris (Linnaeus, 1758) – blue-spotted mudskipper (짱뚱어)
* Channa argus (Cantor, 1842) – northern snakehead (가물치)
* Coreoperca herzi (Herzenstein, 1896) – Korean perch (꺽지)
* Coreoperca kawamebari (Temminck et Schlegel, 1842) – Japanese aucha perch (꺽저기)
* Eleotris oxycephala (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – spined sleeper (구굴무치)
* Favonigobius gymnauchen (Bleeker, 1860) – sharp-nosed sand goby (날개망둑)
* Gymnogobius castaneus (O'Shaughnessy, 1875) – biringo (날망둑)
* Gymnogobius macrognathos (Bleeker, 1860) - (왜꾹저구)
* Gymnogobius urotaenia (Hilgendorf, 1879) (꾹저구)
* Lateolabrax japonicus (Cuvier, 1828) – suzuki (농어)
* Lepomis macrochirus (Rafinesque, 1819) – bluegill (블루길)
* Leucopsarion petersii (Hilgendorf, 1880) – ice goby (서백어)
* Luciogobius guttatus (Gill, 1859) – flat-headed goby (미끈망둑)
* Macropodus ocellatus (Cantor, 1842) – roundtail paradisefish (버들붕어)
* Micropercops swinhonis (Gunther, 1873) (좀구굴치)
* Micropterus salmoides (Lacépède, 1802) – largemouth bass (베스)
* Mugilogobius abei (Jordan et Snyder, 1901) – Abe's mangrove goby (모치망둑)
* Mugilogobius fontinalis (Jordan et Seale, 1906) (제주모치망둑)
* Nuchequula nuchalis (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – spotnape ponyfish (주둥치)
* Odontamblyopus lacepedii (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) (개소겡)
* Odontobutis interrupta (Iwata et Jeon, 1985) (얼록동사리)
* Odontobutis obscura (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – donko (남방동사리)
* Odontobutis platycephala (Iwata et Jeon, 1985) (동사리)
* Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Nile tilapia (나일틸라피아)
* Paratrypauchen microcephalus (Bleeker, 1860) – comb goby (빨갱이)
* Parioglossus dotui (Tomiyama, 1958) (꼬마청황)
* Periopthalmus magnuspinnatus (Lee, Choi, et Ryu, 1995) (큰볏말뚝망둥어)
* Periophthalmus modestus (Cantor, 1842) – Shuttles hoppfish (말뚝망둥어)
* Pseudogobius masago (Tomiyama, 1936) (애기망둑)
* Repomucenus olidus (Gunther, 1873) (강주걱양태)
* Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – Amur goby (밀어)
* Rhinogobius giurinus (Rutter, 1897) – barcheek goby (갈문망둑)
* Sicyopterus japonicus (Tanaka, 1909) – grazing goby (열동갈문절)
* Siniperca scherzeri (Steindachner, 1892) – golden mandarin fish (쏘가리)
* Synechogobius hasta (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – javelin goby (풀망둑)
* Tridentiger bifasciatus (Steindachner, 1881) – Shimofuri goby (민물두줄망둑)
* Tridentiger brevispinis (Katsuyama, Arai, et Nakamura, 1972) (민물검정망둑)
* Tridentiger nudicervicus (Tomiyama, 1934) – bare-naped goby (황줄망둑)
* Tridentiger obscurus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – dusky tripletooth goby (검정망둑)

## Needlefish and ricefish

* Hyporhamphus intermedius (Cantor, 1842) – Asian pencil halfbeak (줄공치)
* Hyporhamphus sajori (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – Japanese halfbeak (학공치)
* Oryzias latipes (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese rice fish (송사리)
* Oryzias sinensis (Chen, Uwa, et Chu, 1989) – Chinese rice fish (대륙송사리)

## Sticklebacks

* Gasterosteus aculeatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – three-spined stickleback (큰가시고기)
* Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) – ninespine stickleback (청가시고기)
* Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) – Amur stickleback (가시고기)
* Pungitius tymensis (Nikolsky, 1889) – Sakhalin stickleback (두만가시고기)
* Syngnathus schlegeli (Kaup, 1856) – seaweed pipefish (실고기)

## Swamp eels

* Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793) – rice eel (드렁허리)

## Scorpionfish, flatheads and sculpins

* Cottus czerskii (Berg, 1913) – Chersky's sculpin (참둑중개)
* Cottus hangiongensis (Mori, 1930) (한둑중개)
* Cottus poecilopus (Heckel, 1837) – alpine bullhead (둑중개)
* Myoxocephalus stelleri (Tilesius, 1811) – Steller's sculpin (개구리꺽정이)
* Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758) – bartail flathead (양태)
* Sebastes schlegeli (Hilgendorf, 1880) – Korean rockfish (조피볼락)
* Trachidermus fasciatus (Heckel, 1837) – roughskin sculpin (꺽정이)

## Flatfish

* Cynoglossus semilaevis (Gunther, 1873) – tongue sole (박대)
* Kareius bicoloratus (Basilewsky, 1855) – stone flounder (돌가자미)
* Platichthys stellatus (Pallas, 1788) – starry flounder (강도다리)
* Pleuronichthys cornutus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – ridged-eye flounder (도다리)

## Puffers

* Takifugu niphobles (Jordan et Snyder, 1901) – grass puffer (복섬)
* Takifugu obscurus (Abe, 1949) – obscure pufferfish (황복)
* Takifugu poecilonotus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – finepatterned puffer (흰점복)
* Takifugu rubripes (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – Japanese pufferfish (자주복)
* Takifugu vermicularis (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – purple puffer (매리복)
* Takifugu xanthopterus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – yellowfin pufferfish (까치복)