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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.
Fish portal; There are well over 20,000 species of fish, each with a unique scientific name. In addition to their scientific name, many species have one or more common names. With so many species in so many places, it is inevitable that many common names are applied to more than one species.
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.
Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer .
A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians.
The largest fish of the now-extinct class Placodermi was the giant predatory Dunkleosteus. The largest and most well known species was D. terrelli, which grew almost 9 m (29.5 ft) in length [24] and 4 t (4.4 short tons) [25] in weight. Its filter feeding relative, Titanichthys, may have rivaled it in size. [26]
List of cartilaginous fish. List of cichlid fish of Africa. List of cichlid fish of South America. List of commercially important fish species. List of Corydoras species. List of critically endangered fishes.
This common name is used for three different species of schooling fish with similar patterns: Hemigrammus rhodostomus, Hemigrammus bleheri, and Petitella georgiae. Splash tetra: Copella arnoldi: 5.5 cm (2.2 in) Spotted splashing tetra: Copella meinkeni: 4.5 cm (1.8 in) Pyrrhulina spilota: 7 cm (2.8 in) Serpae tetra: Hyphessobrycon serpae: 4.5 ...