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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.
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.
C. 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.
Western silvery minnow. Whale shark. White sturgeon. Categories: Fish of the Americas. Fish by continent. Vertebrates of North America. Aquatic animals of North America.
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Print/export Download as PDF ... This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.
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Common name Scientific name Image Year Alabama: Largemouth bass (fresh water) Micropterus salmoides: 1975 [1] Fighting tarpon (salt water) Megalops atlanticus: 1955 [2] Alaska: King salmon: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha: 1962 [3] Arizona: Apache trout: Oncorhynchus gilae (subspecies apache) 1986 [4] Arkansas: Alligator gar (primitive) Atractosteus ...