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Fish of East Asia

48 fish from East Asia on EveryFish so far.

🇷🇺 Russia and 2 moreKaluga A massive semi-anadromous sturgeon from the Amur River basin hunted for caviar.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1872

🇨🇳 ChinaChinese paddlefish A giant freshwater predator from China that is now extinct.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1862

🇨🇳 China and 3 moreAsian swamp eel A freshwater, air-breathing fish native to Asia and introduced elsewhere.Eel · Rivers and lakes

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Kaluga: あおもりくま（Aomorikuma）, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Chinese paddlefish: Muséum d'histoire Naturelle, Public domain, source
Asian swamp eel: Leo G. Nico, USGS, Gainesville, FL, Public domain, source

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