# List of fish common names

Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
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* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* African glass catfish (Pareutropius debauwi)
* African lungfish (genus Protopterus)
* Aholehole (genus Kuhlia and family Kuhliidae)
* Airbreathing catfish (family Clariidae)
* Airsac catfish (genus Heteropneustes)
* Alaska blackfish
* Albacore
* Alewife
* Alfonsino
* Algae eater (numerous species that are not necessarily closely related)
* Alligatorfish (family Agonidae)
* Alligator gar
* Amberjack (genus Seriola)
* American sole (family Achiridae)
* Amur pike
* Anchovy (family Engraulidae)
* Anemonefish (subfamily Amphiprioninae of family Pomacentridae)
* Angelfish (numerous unrelated taxa, including family Pomacanthidae, family Squatinidae, genus Pterophyllum, the Atlantic pomfret, the Atlantic spadefish, and the cave angelfish)
* Angler (Lophius piscatorius)
* Angler catfish (genus Chaca)
* Anglerfish (order Lophiiformes)
* Antarctic cod
* Antarctic icefish (suborder Notothenioidei of order Perciformes)
* Antenna codlet (Bregmaceros atlanticus)
* Arapaima (genus Arapaima)
* Archerfish (genus Toxotes and family Toxotidae)
* Arctic char
* Armored gurnard (family Peristediidae)
* Armored searobin (family Peristediidae)
* Armorhead (family Pentacerotidae)
* Armorhead catfish (genus Cranoglanis)
* Armoured catfish
* Arowana (family Osteoglossidae)
* Arrowtooth eel (several species, including Dysomma anguillare, Dysomma brevirostre, Histiobranchus bathybius, Synaphobranchus kaupii, and Ilyophis brunneus)
* Asian carp
* Asiatic glassfish (family Ambassidae)
* Atka mackerel
* Atlantic bonito
* Atlantic cod
* Atlantic herring
* Atlantic salmon
* Atlantic saury
* Atlantic sharpnose shark
* Atlantic silverside
* Australasian salmon (genus Arripis and family Arripidae)
* Australian grayling
* Australian herring
* Australian lungfish
* Australian prowfish (family Pataecidae)
* Ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis)

## B

* Baikal oilfish
* Bala shark
* Ballan wrasse
* Bamboo shark
* Banded killifish
* Bandfish
* Bangus
* Banjo
* Banjo catfish
* Barb
* Barbel
* Barbeled dragonfish
* Barbeled houndshark
* Barbel-less catfish
* Barfish
* Barracuda
* Barracudina
* Barramundi
* Barred danio
* Barreleye
* Basking shark
* Bass
* Basslet
* Bat ray
* Batfish
* Beachsalmon
* Beaked salmon
* Beaked sandfish
* Beardfish
* Beluga sturgeon
* Bengal danio
* Betta
* Bichir
* Bicolor goat fish
* Bigeye
* Bigeye squaretail
* Bighead carp
* Bigmouth buffalo
* Bigscale
* Bigscale pomfret
* Billfish
* Bitterling
* Black angelfish
* Black bass
* Black dragonfish
* Black mackerel
* Black neon tetra
* Black scabbardfish
* Black scalyfin
* Black sea bass
* Black swallower
* Black tetra
* Black triggerfish
* Blackchin
* Blackfin tuna
* Blackfish
* Blacktip reef shark
* Bleak
* Blenny
* Blind goby
* Blind shark
* Blobfish
* Blowfish
* Blue catfish
* Blue danio
* Blue eye trevalla
* Blue shark
* Blue triggerfish
* Blue whiting
* Blue-redstripe danio
* Bluefin tuna
* Bluefish
* Bluegill
* Blue gourami
* Bluntnose knifefish
* Bluntnose minnow
* Boafish
* Boarfish
* Bobtail snipe eel
* Bocaccio
* Boga
* Bombay duck
* Bonefish
* Bonito
* Bonnethead shark
* Bonnetmouth
* Bonytail
* Bonytongue
* Bowfin
* Boxfish
* Bramble shark
* Bream
* Brill
* Bristlemouth
* Bristlenose catfish
* Broadband dogfish
* Bronze corydoras
* Brook lamprey
* Brook stickleback
* Brook trout
* Brotula
* Brown trout
* Buffalo fish
* Bull shark
* Bull trout
* Bullhead
* Bullhead shark
* Bumblebee goby
* Burbot
* Buri
* Burma danio
* Burrowing goby
* Butterfish
* Butterfly ray
* Butterflyfish

## C

* California flyingfish
* California halibut
* Canary rockfish
* Candiru
* Candlefish
* Capelin
* Cardinal tetra
* Cardinalfish
* Carp
* Carpetshark
* Carpsucker
* Cat shark
* Catalufa
* Catfish
* Catla
* Cavefish
* Celebes rainbowfish
* Central mudminnow
* Chain pickerel
* Channel bass
* Channel catfish
* Char
* Cherry salmon
* Chimaera
* Chinook salmon
* Cherubfish
* Chub
* Chubsucker
* Chum salmon
* Cichlid
* Cisco
* Climbing catfish
* Climbing gourami
* Climbing perch
* Clingfish
* Clown loach
* Clown triggerfish
* Clownfish
* Cobbler
* Cobia
* Cod
* Codlet
* Codling
* Coelacanth
* Coffinfish
* Coho salmon
* Coley
* Collared carpetshark
* Collared dogfish
* Colorado squawfish
* Combfish
* Combtail gourami
* Combtooth blenny
* Common carp
* Common tunny
* Conger eel
* Convict blenny
* Convict cichlid
* Cookiecutter shark
* Coolie loach
* Cornetfish
* Cow shark
* Cowfish
* Cownose ray
* Crappie
* Creek chub
* Crestfish
* Crevice kelpfish
* Croaker
* Crocodile icefish
* Crocodile shark
* Crucian carp
* Cuckoo wrasse
* Cusk
* Cusk-eel
* Cutlassfish
* Cutthroat eel
* Cutthroat trout

## D

* Dab
* Dace
* Daggertooth pike conger
* Damselfish
* Danio
* Darter
* Dartfish
* Dealfish
* Death Valley pupfish
* Deep-sea eel
* Deep-sea smelt
* Deepwater cardinalfish
* Deepwater flathead
* Deepwater stingray
* Delta smelt
* Demoiselle
* Denticle herring
* Desert pupfish
* Devario
* Devil ray
* Dhufish
* Discus
* Dogfish
* Dogfish shark
* Dogteeth tetra
* Dojo loach
* Dolly Varden trout
* Dolphin fish
* Dorab wolf-herring
* Dorado
* Dory
* Dottyback
* Dragon goby
* Dragonet
* Dragonfish
* Driftfish
* Driftwood catfish
* Drum
* Duckbill
* Duckbill eel
* Dusky grouper
* Dusky shark
* Dwarf gourami
* Dwarf loach

## E

* Eagle ray
* Earthworm eel
* Eel
* Eel cod
* Eel-goby
* Eelpout
* Eeltail catfish
* Elasmobranch
* Electric catfish
* Electric eel
* Electric knifefish
* Electric ray
* Elephant fish
* Elephantnose fish
* Elver
* Ember parrotfish
* Emerald catfish
* Emperor
* Emperor angelfish
* Emperor bream
* Escolar
* Eucla cod
* Eulachon
* European chub
* European eel
* European flounder
* European minnow
* European perch

## F

* False brotula
* False cat shark
* False moray
* False trevally
* Fangtooth
* Fathead sculpin
* Featherback
* Fierasfer
* Filefish
* Finback cat shark
* Fingerfish
* Fire bar danio
* Fire goby
* Firefish
* Flabby whale fish
* Flagblenny
* Flagfin
* Flagfish
* Flagtail
* Flashlight fish
* Flatfish
* Flathead
* Flathead catfish
* Flier
* Flounder
* Flying fish
* Flying gurnard
* Footballfish
* Forehead brooder
* Four-eyed fish
* French angelfish
* Freshwater eel
* Freshwater hatchetfish
* Freshwater shark
* Frigate mackerel
* Frilled shark
* Frogfish
* Frogmouth catfish
* Fusilier fish

## G

* Galjoen fish
* Ganges shark
* Gar
* Garden eel
* Garibaldi
* Garpike
* Ghost fish
* Ghost flathead
* Ghost knifefish
* Ghost pipefish
* Ghost shark
* Ghoul
* Giant danio
* Giant gourami
* Giant sea bass
* Gibberfish
* Gila trout
* Gizzard shad
* Glass catfish
* Glass knifefish
* Glassfish
* Glowlight danio
* Goatfish
* Goblin shark
* Goby
* Golden dojo
* Golden loach
* Golden shiner
* Golden trout
* Goldeye
* Goldfish
* Gombessa
* Goosefish
* Gopher rockfish
* Gourami
* Grass carp
* Graveldiver
* Gray mullet
* Gray reef shark
* Grayling
* Great white shark
* Green spotted puffer
* Green swordtail
* Greeneye
* Greenling
* Grenadier
* Ground shark
* Grouper
* Grunion
* Grunt
* Grunt sculpin
* Grunter
* Gudgeon
* Guitarfish
* Gulf menhaden
* Gulper
* Gulper eel
* Gunnel
* Guppy
* Gurnard

## H

* Haddock
* Hagfish
* Hairtail
* Hake
* Halfbeak
* Halfmoon
* Halibut
* Halosaur
* Hamlet
* Hammerhead shark
* Hammerjaw
* Handfish
* Hardhead catfish
* Harelip sucker
* Hatchetfish
* Hawkfish
* Herring
* Herring smelt
* Hickory Shad
* Hillstream loach
* Hog sucker
* Hoki
* Horn shark
* Horsefish
* Houndshark
* Huchen
* Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
* Hussar

## I

* Icefish
* Ide
* Ilish/Hilsha
* Inanga
* Inconnu

## J

* Jack
* Jack Dempsey
* Jackfish
* Japanese eel
* Javelin
* Jawfish
* Jellynose fish
* Jewel tetra
* Jewelfish
* Jewfish
* John Dory

## K

* Kafue pike
* Kahawai
* Kaluga
* Kanyu
* Kelp perch
* Kelpfish
* Killifish
* King of the herrings
* King-of-the-salmon
* Kingfish
* Kissing gourami
* Knifefish
* Knifejaw
* Koi
* Kokanee
* Kokopu
* Kuhli loach

## L

* Labyrinth fish
* Ladyfish
* Lake chub
* Lake trout
* Lake whitefish
* Lampfish
* Lamprey
* Lancetfish
* Lanternfish
* Largemouth bass
* Leaffish
* Leatherjacket
* Lefteye flounder
* Lemon shark
* Lemon sole
* Lemon tetra
* Lenok
* Leopard danio
* Lightfish
* Limia
* Lined sole
* Ling
* Ling cod
* Lionfish
* Livebearer
* Lizardfish
* Loach
* Loach catfish
* Loach goby
* Loach minnow
* Longfin
* Longfin dragonfish
* Longfin escolar
* Longfin smelt
* Long-finned char
* Long-finned pike
* Long-finned sand diver
* Longjaw mudsucker
* Longneck eel
* Longnose chimaera
* Longnose dace
* Longnose lancetfish
* Longnose sucker
* Longnose whiptail catfish
* Long-whiskered catfish
* Loosejaw
* Lost River sucker
* Louvar
* Loweye catfish
* Luderick
* Luminous hake
* Lumpsucker
* Lungfish

## M

* Mackerel
* Mackerel shark
* Madtom
* Mahi-mahi
* Mahseer
* Mail-cheeked fish
* Mako shark
* Mandarinfish
* Manefish
* Man-of-war fish
* Manta ray
* Marblefish
* Marine hatchetfish
* Marlin
* Masu salmon
* Medaka
* Medusafish
* Megamouth shark
* Menhaden
* Merluccid hake
* Mexican golden trout
* Midshipman fish
* Milkfish
* Minnow
* Minnow of the deep
* Modoc sucker
* Mojarra
* Mola mola
* Monkeyface prickleback
* Monkfish
* Mooneye
* Moonfish
* Moorish idol
* Mora
* Moray eel
* Morid cod
* Morwong
* Moses sole
* Mosquitofish
* Mouthbrooder
* Mozambique tilapia
* Mrigal
* Mud catfish
* Mud minnow
* Mudfish
* Mudskipper
* Mudsucker
* Mullet
* Mummichog
* Murray cod
* Muskellunge
* Mustache triggerfish
* Mustard eel

## N

* Naked-back knifefish
* Nase
* Needlefish
* Neon tetra
* New World rivuline
* New Zealand sand diver
* New Zealand smelt
* Nibble fish
* Noodlefish
* North American darter
* North American freshwater catfish
* North Pacific daggertooth
* Northern anchovy
* Northern clingfish
* Northern lampfish
* Northern pike
* Northern sea robin
* Northern squawfish
* Northern stargazer
* Notothen
* Nurse shark
* Nurseryfish

## O

* Oarfish
* Ocean perch
* Ocean sunfish
* Oceanic whitetip shark
* Oilfish
* Old World knifefish
* Oldwife
* Olive flounder
* Opah
* Opaleye
* Orange roughy
* Orangespine unicorn fish
* Orangestriped triggerfish
* Orbicular batfish
* Orbicular velvetfish
* Oregon chub
* Orfe
* Oriental loach
* Oscar
* Owens pupfish

## P

* Pacific albacore
* Pacific cod
* Pacific hake
* Pacific herring
* Pacific lamprey
* Pacific rudderfish
* Pacific salmon
* Pacific saury
* Pacific trout
* Pacific viperfish
* Paddlefish
* Pancake batfish
* Panga
* Paradise fish
* Parasitic catfish
* Parore
* Parrotfish
* Peacock flounder
* Peamouth
* Pearl danio
* Pearl perch
* Pearleye
* Pearlfish
* Pelagic cod
* Pelican eel
* Pelican gulper
* Pencil catfish
* Pencilfish
* Pencilsmelt
* Peppered corydoras
* Perch
* Peters' elephantnose fish
* Pickerel
* Pigfish
* Pike
* Pike conger
* Pike eel
* Pikeblenny
* Pikeperch
* Pilchard
* Pilot fish
* Pineapplefish
* Pineconefish
* Pink salmon
* Píntano
* Pipefish
* Piranha
* Pirarucu
* Pirate perch
* Plaice
* Platy
* Platyfish
* Pleco
* Plownose chimaera
* Poacher
* Pollock
* Pollyfish
* Pomfret
* Pompano
* Pompano dolphinfish
* Ponyfish
* Popeye catalufa
* Porbeagle shark
* Porcupinefish
* Porgy
* Port Jackson shark
* Powen
* Prickleback
* Pricklefish
* Prickly shark
* Prowfish
* Pufferfish
* Pumpkinseed
* Pupfish
* Pygmy sunfish

## Q

* Queen danio
* Queen parrotfish
* Queen triggerfish
* Quillback
* Quillfish

## R

* Rabbitfish
* Raccoon butterfly fish
* Ragfish
* Rainbow trout
* Rainbowfish
* Rasbora
* Ratfish
* Rattail
* Ray
* Razorback sucker
* Razorfish
* Red grouper
* Red salmon
* Red snapper
* Redfin perch
* Redfish
* Redhorse sucker
* Redlip blenny
* Redmouth whalefish
* Redtooth triggerfish
* Red velvetfish
* Red whalefish
* Reedfish
* Reef triggerfish
* Remora
* Requiem shark
* Ribbon eel
* Ribbon sawtail fish
* Ribbonfish
* Rice eel
* Ricefish
* Ridgehead
* Riffle dace
* Righteye flounder
* Rio Grande perch
* River loach
* River shark
* River stingray
* Rivuline
* Roach
* Roanoke bass
* Rock bass
* Rock beauty
* Rock cod
* Rock gunnel
* Rocket danio
* Rockfish
* Rockling
* Rockweed gunnel
* Rohu
* Ronquil
* Roosterfish
* Ropefish
* Rough scad
* Rough sculpin
* Roughy
* Roundhead
* Round herring
* Round stingray
* Round whitefish
* Rudd
* Rudderfish
* Ruffe
* Russian sturgeon

## S

* Sábalo
* Sabertooth
* Saber-toothed blenny
* Sabertooth fish
* Sablefish
* Stromateidae
* Sacramento blackfish
* Sacramento splittail
* Sailfin silverside
* Sailfish
* Salamanderfish
* Salmon
* Salmon shark
* Sandbar shark
* Sandburrower
* Sand dab
* Sand diver
* Sand eel
* Sandfish
* Sand goby
* Sand knifefish
* Sand lance
* Sandperch
* Sandroller
* Sand stargazer
* Sand tiger
* Sand tilefish
* Sandbar shark
* Sarcastic fringehead
* Sardine
* Sargassum fish
* Sauger
* Saury
* Saw shark
* Sawfish
* Sawtooth eel
* Scabbard fish
* Scaly dragonfish
* Scat
* Scissortail rasbora
* Scorpionfish
* Sculpin
* Scup
* Sea bass
* Sea bream
* Sea catfish
* Sea chub
* Sea devil
* Sea dragon
* Sea lamprey
* Sea raven
* Sea snail
* Sea toad
* Seahorse
* Seamoth
* Searobin
* Sergeant major
* Sevan trout
* Shad
* Shark
* Sharksucker
* Sharpnose puffer
* Sheatfish
* Sheepshead
* Sheepshead minnow
* Shiner
* Shortnose chimaera
* Shortnose sucker
* Shovelnose sturgeon
* Shrimpfish
* Siamese fighting fish
* Sillago
* Silver carp
* Silver dollar
* Silver dory
* Silver hake
* Silverside
* Silvertip tetra
* Sind danio
* Sixgill ray
* Sixgill shark
* Skate
* Skilfish
* Skipjack tuna
* Slender mola
* Slender snipe eel
* Sleeper
* Sleeper shark
* Slickhead
* Slimehead
* Slimy mackerel
* Slimy sculpin
* Slipmouth
* Smalleye squaretail
* Smalltooth sawfish
* Smelt
* Smelt-whiting
* Smooth dogfish
* Snailfish
* Snake eel
* Snake mackerel
* Snakehead
* Snapper
* Snipe eel
* Snipefish
* Snook
* Snubnose eel
* Snubnose parasitic eel
* Sockeye salmon
* Soldierfish
* Sole
* South American darter
* South American lungfish
* Southern Dolly Varden
* Southern flounder
* Southern hake
* Southern sandfish
* Southern smelt
* Spadefish
* Spaghetti eel
* Spanish mackerel
* Spearfish
* Speckled trout
* Spiderfish
* Spikefish
* Spinefoot
* Spiny basslet
* Spiny dogfish
* Spiny dwarf catfish
* Spiny eel
* Spinyfin
* Splitfin
* Spookfish
* Spotted climbing perch
* Spotted danio
* Spottail pinfish
* Sprat
* Springfish
* Squarehead catfish
* Squaretail
* Squawfish (disambiguation)
* Squeaker
* Squirrelfish
* Staghorn sculpin
* Stargazer
* Starry flounder
* Steelhead
* Stickleback
* Stingfish
* Stingray
* Stonecat
* Stonefish
* Stoneroller minnow
* Stream catfish
* Striped bass
* Striped burrfish
* Sturgeon
* Sucker
* Suckermouth armored catfish
* Summer flounder
* Sundaland noodlefish
* Sunfish
* Surf sardine
* Surfperch
* Surgeonfish
* Swallower
* Swamp-eel
* Swampfish
* Sweeper
* Swordfish
* Swordtail

## T

* Tadpole cod
* Tadpole fish
* Tailor
* Taimen
* Tang
* Tapetail
* Tarpon
* Tarwhine
* Telescopefish
* Temperate bass
* Temperate ocean-bass
* Temperate perch
* Tench
* Tenpounder
* Tenuis
* Tetra
* Thorny catfish
* Thornfish
* Threadfin
* Threadfin bream
* Thread-tail
* Three spot gourami
* Threespine stickleback
* Three-toothed puffer
* Thresher shark
* Tidewater goby
* Tiger barb
* Tigerfish
* Tigerperch
* Tiger shark
* Tiger shovelnose catfish
* Tilapia
* Tilefish
* Titan triggerfish
* Toadfish
* Tommy ruff
* Tompot blenny
* Tonguefish
* Tope
* Topminnow
* Torpedo
* Torrent catfish
* Torrent fish
* Trahira
* Treefish
* Trevally
* Triggerfish
* Triplefin blenny
* Triplespine
* Tripletail
* Tripod fish
* Trout
* Trout cod
* Trout-perch
* Trumpeter
* Trumpetfish
* Trunkfish
* Tubeblenny
* Tube-eye
* Tube-snout
* Tubeshoulder
* Tui chub
* Tuna
* Turbot
* Two spotted goby

## U

* Uaru
* Unicorn fish
* Upside-down catfish

## V

* Vanjaram
* Velvet belly lanternshark
* Velvet catfish
* Velvetfish
* Vendace
* Vermilion snapper
* Vimba
* Viperfish

## W

* Wahoo
* Walking catfish
* Wallago
* Walleye
* Walleye pollock
* Walu
* Warmouth
* Warty angler
* Waryfish
* Waspfish
* Weasel shark
* Weatherfish
* Weever
* Weeverfish
* Wels catfish
* Whale catfish
* Whalefish
* Whale shark
* Whiff
* Whitebait
* White croaker
* Whitefish
* White marlin
* White shark
* Whitetip reef shark
* Whiting
* Wobbegong
* Wolf-eel
* Wolffish
* Wolf-herring
* Worm eel
* Wormfish
* Wrasse
* Wrymouth

## X

* X-ray tetra

## Y

* Yellow-and-black triplefin
* Yellowback fusilier
* Yellowbanded perch
* Yellow bass
* Yellowedge grouper
* Yellow-edged moray
* Yellow-eye mullet
* Yellowhead jawfish
* Yellowfin croaker
* Yellowfin cutthroat trout
* Yellowfin grouper
* Yellowfin tuna
* Yellowfin pike
* Yellowfin surgeonfish
* Yellowfin tuna
* Yellow jack
* Yellowmargin triggerfish
* Yellow moray
* Yellow perch
* Yellowtail
* Yellowtail amberjack
* Yellowtail barracuda
* Yellowtail clownfish
* Yellowtail horse mackerel
* Yellowtail kingfish
* Yellowtail snapper
* Yellow tang
* Yellow weaver
* Yellowtail catfish

## Z

* Zander
* Zebra bullhead shark
* Zebra danio
* Zebrafish
* Zebra lionfish
* Zebra loach
* Zebra oto
* Zebra pleco
* Zebra shark
* Zebra tilapia
* Zebra turkeyfish
* Ziege
* Zingel