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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.
The current IUCN red list standing of sockeye salmon (Oncohynchus nerka), which does not distinguish kokanee, is of least concern. [24] Even so, King County, Washington, in partnership with US Fish and Wildlife, has issued conservation measures to save the fish that once numbered in the thousands. As few as 150 fish spawned in 2007–2008 ...
The name "mosquitofish" was given because the fish eats mosquito larvae, and has been used more than any other fishes for the biological control of mosquitoes. [3] Gambusia typically eat zooplankton, beetles , mayflies , caddisflies , mites , and other invertebrates ; mosquito larvae make up only a small portion of their diet.
The pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), also referred to as sun perch, [4] pond perch, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver, is a small to medium–sized freshwater fish of the genus Lepomis (true sunfishes), from the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) in the order Centrarchiformes.
The fish have been exposed to higher levels of estrogen, leading to feminized fish. [27] Males display female reproductive organs, and both sexes have reduced fertility, and a higher hatch mortality. [28] Freshwater habitats in the United States are widely contaminated by the common pesticide atrazine. [29]
The fish is of commercial importance; it is fished internationally and raised in aquaculture in Australia, [14] Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Israel, Thailand, the United States, Poland, and the United Kingdom. [citation needed] A Singapore investment firm has invested in an upcoming barramundi fish farm in Brunei.
Specifically, the study examined the edible tissue of fish often fished along the Oregon coast or sold in the state's markets: black rockfish, lingcod, Chinook salmon, Pacific herring, Pacific ...
The name Siganus is a latinisation of the local Arabic name for the marbled rabbitfish (S. rivulatus) in Yemen, Sidjan which can also be written as Sigian, and means "rabbitfish". [3] S. puellus (Masked spinefoots) with their foxface-like pattern. In 2007 Kurriwa et al., outlined a way to split the genus—if the scientific community so desires ...