🇫🇷 Fish of France
23 fish from France, best known first.
GroupSharkRayCarpCatfishSalmonidHerringCodTunaPerch-likeCichlidReef fishEelFlatfishLivebearerAncientOther
WaterRivers and lakesEstuaries and mangrovesCoasts and shelvesCoral reefsOpen oceanDeep seaPolar and cold seasCaves and springsBetween sea and river
🇷🇺 Russia and 3 moreBurbot
A coldwater freshwater fish with a chin whisker, native to the Northern Hemisphere.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreRock bass
A small, red-eyed freshwater sunfish native to North America.Perch-like · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSea lamprey
A jawless, parasitic fish native to the Northern Hemisphere that attacks other fish.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇷🇺 Russia and 4 moreSiberian sturgeon
Large freshwater sturgeon native to Siberian riversAncient · Rivers and lakes
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreBarbel
Carp-like freshwater fish with distinctive mouth barbelsCarp · Rivers and lakes
🇫🇷 FranceCommon bleak
A small, silvery freshwater fish found across Europe and Western Asia.Carp · Rivers and lakes
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreGrayling
A cold-water salmonid fish native to European rivers, prized by anglers for its distinctive dorsal fin.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes
🇫🇷 France and 3 moreEuropean whitefish
A widespread freshwater salmonid with a tapered body and silvery flanks.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes
🇸🇪 Sweden and 3 moreIde
A freshwater cyprinid native to Europe and Asia, widely kept in ornamental ponds.Carp · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇨🇦 Canada and 3 moreSturgeon
Ancient fish with bony plates and heterocercal tails, known for caviar.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 moreCommon carp
A widespread freshwater fish native to Europe and Asia, now farmed globally and often invasive.Carp · Rivers and lakes
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreCrucian carp
A European cyprinid known for surviving winter ice by converting lactate to ethanol.Carp · Rivers and lakes
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Crucian carp: Daderot, CC0, source
- Sea lamprey: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Siberian sturgeon: This illustration was made by Citron You must credit this : Citron / C, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Burbot: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rock bass: Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Barbel: Neil Phillips, CC BY 2.0, source
- Common bleak: Piet Spaans, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Grayling: High Plains Grifter, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- European whitefish: see Iduns kokbok, Public domain, source
- Ide: Viridiflavus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sturgeon: Duane Raver/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
- Carp: Dezidor, CC BY-SA 3.0, source