This is a list of fish common names. While some common names refer to a single species or family, others have been used for a confusing variety of different types; the articles listed here should explain the possibilities if the name is ambiguous.

A

• African glass catfish
• African lungfish
• aholehole
• airbreathing catfish
• airsac catfish
• Alaska blackfish
• albacore
• alewife
• alfonsino
• algae eater
• alligatorfish
• Amago
• American sole
• Amur pike
• anchovy
• anemonefish
• angelfish
• angel shark
• anglemouth
• angler
• angler catfish
• anglerfish
• Antarctic cod
• Antarctic dragonfish
• Antarctic icefish
• antenna codlet
• arapaima
• archerfish
• Arctic char
• armored catfish
• armored gurnard
• armored searobin
• armorhead
• armorhead catfish
• arowana
• arrowtooth eel
• aruana
• Asian carps
• Asiatic glassfish
• Atka mackerel
• Atlantic cod
• Atlantic eel
• Atlantic herring
• Atlantic salmon
• Atlantic saury
• Atlantic silverside
• Atlantic trout
• Australasian salmon
• Australian grayling
• Australian herring
• Australian lungfish
• Australian prowfish
• Ayu

B

• Baikal oilfish
• Bala shark
• ballan wrasse
• bamboo shark
• banded killifish
• bandfish
• bango
• bangu
• banjo catfish
• barb
• barbel
• barbeled dragonfish
• barbeled houndshark
• barbelless catfish
• barfish
• barracuda
• barracudina
• barramundi
• barred danio
• barreleye
• basking shark
• bass
• basslet
• batfish
• bat ray
• beachsalmon
• beaked salmon
• beaked sandfish
• beardfish
• beluga sturgeon
• bengal danio
• bent-tooth
• betta
• bichir
• bigeye
• bigeye squaretail
• bighead carp
• bigmouth buffalo
• bigscale
• bigscale fish
• bigscale pomfret
• billfish
• bitterling
• black angelfish
• black bass
• black dragonfish
• blackchin
• blackfish
• blacktip reef shark
• black mackerel
• black pickerel
• black prickleback
• black scalyfin
• black sea bass
• blacksmelt
• black swallower
• black tetra
• black triggerfish
• bleak
• blenny
• blind goby
• blind shark
• blue catfish
• blue danio
• blue-redstripe danio
• blue eye
• bluefin tuna
• bluefish
• bluegill
• blue gourami
• blue shark
• blue triggerfish
• blue whiting
• bluntnose knifefish
• bluntnose minnow
• boafish
• boarfish
• bobtail snipe eel
• bocaccio
• boga
• Bombay duck
• bonefish
• bonito
• bonnetmouth
• bonytail chub
• bonytongue
• bottlenose
• bowfin
• boxfish
• bramble shark
• bream
• bristlemouth
• bristlenose catfish
• broadband dogfish
• brook lamprey
• brook trout
• brotula
• brown trout
• buffalofish
• bullhead
• bullhead shark
• bull shark
• bull trout
• burbot
• buri
• burma danio
• burrowing goby
• butterfish
• butterfly ray
• butterflyfish

C

• California flyingfish
• California halibut
• California smoothtongue
• canary rockfish
• candiru
• candlefish
• capelin
• cardinalfish
• carp
• carpetshark
• carpsucker
• catalufa
• catfish
• catla
• cat shark
• cavefish
• Celebes rainbowfish
• central mudminnow
• cepalin
• 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
• clownfish
• clown loach
• clown triggerfish
• cobbler
• cobia
• cod
• cod icefish
• 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
• cookie-cutter shark
• coolie loach
• cornetfish
• cowfish
• cownose ray
• cow shark
• crappie
• creek chub
• crestfish
• crevice kelpfish
• croaker
• crocodile icefish
• crocodile shark
• crucian carp
• cuchia
• cuckoo wrasse
• cusk-eel
• cuskfish
• cutlassfish
• cutthroat eel
• cutthroat trout

D

• dab
• dace
• daggertooth pike conger
• damselfish
• danio
• darter
• dartfish
• dealfish
• Death Valley pupfish
• deep sea anglerfish
• deep sea bonefish
• deep sea eel
• deep sea smelt
• deepwater cardinalfish
• deepwater flathead
• deepwater stingray
• delta smelt
• demoiselle
• denticle herring
• desert pupfish
• Devario
• devil ray
• discus
• diver: New Zealand sand diver or Long-finned sand diver
• dogfish
• dogfish shark
• dogteeth tetra
• dojo loach
• Dolly Varden trout
• dorab
• dorado
• dory
• dottyback
• dragonet
• dragonfish
• dragon goby
• driftfish
• driftwood catfish
• drum (fish)
• duckbill
• duckbilled barracudina
• duckbill eel
• dusky grouper
• dwarf gourami
• dwarf loach

E

• eagle ray
• earthworm eel
• eel
• eelblenny
• eel cod
• eel-goby
• eelpout
• eeltail catfish
• elasmobranch
• electric catfish
• electric eel
• electric knifefish
• electric ray
• electric stargazer
• elephantfish
• elephantnose fish
• elver
• 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
• featherfin knifefish
• fierasfer
• filefish
• finback cat shark
• fingerfish
• fire bar danio
• firefish
• flabby whalefish
• flagblenny
• flagfin
• flagfish
• flagtail
• flashlight fish
• flatfish
• flathead
• flathead catfish
• flat loach
• flier
• flounder
• flying characin
• flying gurnard
• flyingfish
• footballfish
• forehead brooder
• four-eyed fish
• french angelfish
• freshwater eel
• freshwater flyingfish
• freshwater hatchetfish
• freshwater herring
• freshwater shark
• frigate mackerel
• frilled shark
• frogfish
• frogmouth catfish
• fusilier fish

G

• galjoen fish
• Ganges shark
• gar
• garden eel
• garibaldi
• garpike
• ghost flathead
• ghost carp
• ghost knifefish
• ghost pipefish
• ghoul
• giant danio
• giant gourami
• giant sea bass
• giant wels
• gianttail
• gibberfish
• Gila trout
• gizzard shad
• glass catfish
• glassfish
• glass knifefish
• glowlight danio
• goatfish
• goblin shark
• goby
• golden dojo
• golden loach
• golden shiner
• golden trout
• goldeye
• goldfish
• goldspotted killifish
• gombessa
• goosefish
• [rockfish]
• gouramie
• grass carp
• graveldiver
• gray eel-catfish
• grayling
• gray mullet
• gray reef shark
• great white shark
• green swordtail
• greeneye
• greenling
• grenadier
• grideye
• ground shark
• grouper
• grunion
• grunt
• grunter
• grunt sculpin
• gudgeon
• guitarfish
• gulf menhaden
• gulper eel
• gulper
• gunnel
• guppy
• gurnard

H

• haddock
• hagfish
• hairtail
• hake
• half-gill
• halfbeak
• halfmoon
• halibut
• halosaur
• hamlet
• hammerhead shark
• Hammerjaw
• handfish
• hardhead catfish
• harelip sucker
• hatchetfish
• hawkfish
• herring
• herring smelt
• hillstream loach
• hog sucker
• hoki
• horn shark
• horsefish
• houndshark
• huchen
• humuhumu-nukunuku-apua‘a
• hussar

I

• icefish
• ide
• ilisha
• inanga
• inconnu
• Indian mullet
• iniom

J

• jack
• jackfish
• Jack Dempsey
• Japanese eel
• jawfish
• jellynose fish
• jewelfish
• jewel tetra
• jewfish
• john dory

K

• Kafue pike
• kahawai
• kaluga
• kanyu
• kelp perch
• kelpfish
• killifish
• king of herring
• king-of-the-salmon
• kissing gourami
• knifefish
• knifejaw
• koi
• kokanee
• kokopu
• kuhli loach

L

• labyrinth fish
• ladyfish
• lagena
• lake chub
• lake trout
• lake whitefish
• lampfish
• lamprey
• lancetfish
• lanternfish
• large-eye bream
• largemouth bass
• largenose fish
• leaffish
• leatherjacket
• lefteye flounder
• lemon shark
• lenok
• leopard danio
• lightfish
• lighthousefish
• limia
• lined sole
• ling
• ling cod
• lionfish
• livebearer
• lizardfish
• loach
• loach catfish
• loach goby
• loach minnow
• longfin
• longfin dragonfish
• longfin escolar
• long-finned char
• long-finned pike
• longjaw mudsucker
• longneck eel
• longnose chimaera
• longnose dace
• longnose lancetfish
• longnose sucker
• longnose whiptail catfish
• long-whiskered catfish
• lookdown catfish
• loosejaw
• Lost River sucker
• louvar
• loweye catfish
• luminous hake
• luderick
• luminous hake
• lumpsucker
• lungfish
• lyretail

M

• mackerel
• mackerel shark
• madtom
• mahi-mahi
• mahseer
• mail-cheeked fish
• mako shark
• manefish
• man-of-war fish
• Manta Ray
• marblefish
• marine hatchetfish
• marlin
• masu salmon
• medaka
• medusafish
• megamouth shark
• menhaden
• merluccid hake
• Mexican blind cavefish
• Mexican golden trout
• midshipman
• milkfish
• minnow
• Modoc sucker
• mojarra
• mola
• molly
• monkeyface prickleback
• monkfish
• mooneye
• moonfish
• Moorish idol
• mora
• moray eel
• morid cod
• morwong
• Moses sole
• mosquitofish
• mosshead warbonnet
• mouthbrooder
• Mozambique tilapia
• mrigal
• mud catfish (mud cat)
• mudfish
• mudminnow
• mudskipper
• mudsucker
• mullet
• mummichog
• murray cod
• muskellunge
• mustache triggerfish
• mustard eel

N

• naked-back knifefish
• nase
• needlefish
• neon tetra
• New World rivuline
• New Zealand smelt
• nibbler
• noodlefish
• North American darter
• North American freshwater catfish
• North Pacific daggertooth
• northern anchovy
• northern clingfish
• northern lampfish
• northern pearleye
• northern pike
• northern sea robin
• northern squawfish
• northern Stargazer
• Norwegian Atlantic salmon
• nurseryfish
• nurse shark

O

• oarfish
• ocean perch
• ocean sunfish
• oceanic flyingfish
• oceanic whitetip shark
• oilfish
• oldwife
• Old World knifefish
• Old World rivuline
• olive flounder
• opah
• opaleye
• orange roughy
• orangespine unicorn fish
• orangestriped triggerfish
• orbicular batfish
• orbicular velvetfish
• Oregon chub
• oreo
• Oriental loach
• Owens pupfish

P

• Pacific albacore
• Pacific argentine
• Pacific cod
• Pacific hake
• Pacific herring
• Pacific lamprey
• Pacific salmon
• Pacific saury
• Pacific trout
• Pacific viperfish
• paddlefish
• panga
• paperbone
• paradise fish
• parasitic catfish
• parrotfish
• peacock flounder
• peamouth
• pearleye
• pearlfish
• pearl danio
• pearl perch
• pejerrey
• peladillo
• pelagic cod
• pelican eel
• pelican gulper
• pencil catfish
• pencilfish
• pencilsmelt
• perch
• Peter's elephantnose fish
• pickerel
• pigfish
• pike characid
• pike conger
• pike eel
• pike
• pikeblenny
• pikehead
• pikeperch
• pilchard
• pilot fish
• pineconefish
• pink salmon
• píntano
• pipefish
• piranha
• pirarucu
• pirate perch
• plaice
• platy
• platyfish
• pleco
• plownose chimaera
• plunderfish
• poacher
• pollyfish
• pollock
• pomfret
• pompano
• pompano dolphinfish
• ponyfish
• poolfish
• popeye catafula
• porbeagle shark
• porcupinefish
• porgy
• Port Jackson shark
• powen
• priapumfish
• 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 snapper
• redfin perch
• redfish
• redhorse sucker
• redlip blenny
• redmouth whalefish
• redside
• redtooth triggerfish
• red velvetfish
• red whalefish
• reedfish
• reef triggerfish
• regal whiptail catfish
• remora
• requiem shark
• ribbon eel
• ribbon sawtail fish
• ribbonbearer
• 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
• rocket danio
• rockfish
• rockling
• rockweed gunnel
• rohu
• ronquil
• roosterfish
• ropefish
• rough pomfret
• rough scad
• rough sculpin
• roughy
• roundhead
• round herring
• round stingray
• round whitefish
• rudd
• rudderfish
• ruffe
• Russian sturgeon

S

• sabalo
• sabertooth
• saber-toothed blenny
• sabertooth fish
• sablefish
• sailback scorpionfish
• sailbearer
• sailfin silverside
• sailfish
• salamanderfish
• salmon
• salmon shark
• sandbar shark
• sandburrower
• sand dab
• sanddiver
• sand eel
• sandfish
• sand goby
• sand knifefish
• sand lance
• sandperch
• sandroller
• sand stargazer
• sand tiger
• sand tilefish
• sarcastic fringehead
• sardine
• sargassumfish
• sauger
• saury
• sawfish
• saw shark
• sawtooth eel
• scabbard fish
• scaleless black dragonfish
• scaly dragonfish
• scat
• scissor-tail rasbora
• scorpionfish
• sculpin
• scup
• scythe butterfish
• sea bass
• sea catfish
• sea chub
• seadevil
• seadragon
• seahorse
• sea lamprey
• seamoth
• sea raven
• searobin
• sea snail
• sea toad
• Sevan trout
• seatrout
• sergeant major
• shad
• shark
• sharksucker
• sharpnose pufferfish
• sheatfish
• sheepshead
• sheepshead minnow
• shell-ear
• shiner
• shortnose chimaera
• shortnose greeneye
• shortnose sucker
• shovelnose sturgeon
• shrimpfish
• Siamese fighting fish
• sillago
• silver carp
• silver dollar
• silver driftfish
• silver hake
• silverside
• sind danio
• sixgill ray
• sixgill shark
• skate
• skate moss
• skilfish
• skipjack tuna
• skipping goby
• slender barracudina
• slender mola
• slender snipe eel
• sleeper
• sleeper shark
• slickhead
• slimehead
• slimy mackerel
• slimy sculpin
• slipmouth
• smalleye squaretail
• smalltooth sawfish
• smelt
• smelt-whiting
• smooth dogfish
• smoothtongue
• snailfish
• snake eel
• snakehead
• snake mackerel
• snake mudhead
• snapper
• snipe eel
• snipefish
• snoek
• snook
• snubnose eel
• snubnose parasitic eel
• soapfish
• sockeye salmon
• soldierfish
• sole
• South American darter
• South American Lungfish
• southern Dolly Varden
• southern flounder
• southern grayling
• southern hake
• southern sandfish
• southern smelt
• spadefish
• spaghetti eel
• Spanish mackerel
• spearfish
• speckled trout
• spiderfish
• spikefish
• spinefoot
• spiny-back
• spiny basslet
• spiny dogfish
• spiny dwarf catfish
• spiny eel
• spinyfin
• splitfin
• spookfish
• spotted danio
• spotted dogfish
• sprat
• springfish
• squarehead catfish
• squaretail
• squawfish
• squeaker
• squirrelfish
• staghorn sculpin
• stargazer
• starry flounder
• steelhead
• stickleback
• stingfish
• stingray
• stonecat
• stonefish
• stoneroller minnow
• straptail
• stream catfish
• streamer fish
• striped bass
• striped burrfish
• sturgeon
• sucker
• suckermouth armored catfish
• summer flounder
• Sundaland noodlefish
• sunfish (opah)
• sunfish (mola mola)
• 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
• thornyhead
• threadfin
• threadfin bream
• threadsail
• threadtail
• three spot gourami
• threespine stickleback
• three-toothed puffer
• thresher shark
• tidewater goby
• tiger barb
• 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
• turkeyfish

U

• unicornfish
• upside-down catfish

V

• velvet-belly shark
• velvet catfish
• velvetfish
• vendace
• vimba
• viperfish

W

• wahoo
• walking catfish
• wallago
• walleye
• walleye pollock
• walu
• warbonnet
• warmouth
• warty angler
• waryfish
• wasp fish
• weasel shark
• weatherfish
• weever
• weeverfish
• wels catfish
• whale catfish
• whalefish
• whale shark
• whiff
• whiptail gulper
• whitebait
• white croaker
• whitefish
• white marlin
• white shark
• whitetip reef shark
• whiting
• wobbegong
• wolf-eel
• wolffish
• wolf-herring
• woody sculpin
• worm eel
• wormfish
• wrasse
• wrymouth

Y

• yellow-and-black triplefin
• yellowbanded perch
• yellow bass
• yellow-edged moray
• yellow-eye mullet
• yellowhead jawfish
• yellowfin croaker
• yellowfin cutthroat trout
• yellowfin grouper
• 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

Z

• zander
• zebra bullhead shark
• zebra danio
• zebrafish
• zebra lionfish
• zebra loach
• zebra oto
• zebra pleco
• zebra shark
• zebra tilapia
• ziege
• zingel

See also

• List of freshwater aquarium fish species
• List of edible fish