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.
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
 - 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
I
J
K
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
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
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
V
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
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
 
