Search: Ariidae
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreAfrican sharptooth catfish
Large airbreathing catfish farmed across Africa and AsiaCatfish · Rivers and lakes
WorldCrocodile shark
Smallest living mackerel shark with large eyes and oily liverShark · Open ocean · 1936
WorldBluespotted cornetfish
Long, slender reef fish with a tubular snout and blue spots.Reef fish · Coasts and shelves
WorldWarty frogfish
A spotted marine fish with a lure on its head found in the Indo-Pacific.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1840
WorldSargassum fish
A camouflaged anglerfish living in floating seaweed.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1758
WorldHypostomus plecostomus
A tropical armored catfish from South America, kept in aquariums for algae control.Catfish · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreAmazon sailfin catfish
A large freshwater armored catfish from South America, often kept in aquariums and known as an invasive pest elsewhere.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
🇻🇪 Venezuela and 1 moreOtocinclus
Small South American armored catfishes known for algae eating and air breathing.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 BrazilZebra pleco
Striped catfish from the Rio XinguCatfish · Rivers and lakes · 1991
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreGafftopsail catfish
Marine catfish with venomous spines and mouthbrooding malesCatfish · Coasts and shelves
WorldWhiskered twig catfish
Slender South American armored catfish genusCatfish · Rivers and lakes
Sub-Saharan AfricaVundu
A large air-breathing catfish native to African rivers and lakes.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreAncistrus
A genus of small, nocturnal freshwater catfish native to South America and Panama.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
WorldGiant catfish
Large estuarine catfish found across the Indo-Pacific.Catfish · Estuaries and mangroves · 1837
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreWalking catfish
A Southeast Asian air-breathing catfish known for moving across land and surviving out of water.Catfish · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United StatesHardhead catfish
A marine catfish of the western Atlantic with a bony head plate and paternal mouthbrooding.Catfish · Estuaries and mangroves
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 4 moreSpotted sea catfish
A tropical catfish found in Indo-Pacific watersCatfish · Rivers and lakes · 1792
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- African sharptooth catfish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Crocodile shark: Chris_huh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bluespotted cornetfish: Matthias Kleine --> Mkleine, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Warty frogfish: iNaturalist.org (Dan Schofield) (Dan Schofield), CC BY 4.0, source
- Sargassum fish: Totti, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hypostomus plecostomus: Raphaël Covain, Natural History Museum of Geneva, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Amazon sailfin catfish: Richwales at en.wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Otocinclus: CHUCAO, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zebra pleco: Birger A, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gafftopsail catfish: Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0, source
- Whiskered twig catfish: User:Haplochromis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ancistrus: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Giant catfish: Acarie Baron, Public domain, source
- Walking catfish: Vassil, CC0, source
- Hardhead catfish: Edgar R. Waite, Public domain, source
- Spotted sea catfish: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 4.0, source