Fish beginning with G
17 fish.
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreGar
Ancient armored fish with lung-like swim bladders found in North American waters.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 moreGiant grenadier
A large deep-sea rattail from the North Pacific.Other · Open ocean
WorldGiant oarfish
The world's longest ray-finned fish, known for its ribbon-like body and crimson crest.Other · Open ocean · 1772
WorldGiant oceanic manta ray
The world's largest ray, a massive filter-feeding predator of tropical oceans.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1827
Southeast AsiaGiant snakehead
A large freshwater predator from Southeast Asia known for air breathing and invasive potential.Other · Rivers and lakes
WorldGlasshead barreleye
Deep-sea fish with mirror-based eyesOther · Open ocean
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 1 moreGolden mahseer
Large cyprinid fish from Himalayan riversCarp · Rivers and lakes
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 moreGoldeye
A silver freshwater fish known for its smoked culinary form.Other · Rivers and lakes
WorldGreat white shark
A large, globally distributed predator known for its size and apex status in marine ecosystems.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreGreen sturgeon
A large anadromous fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean.Shark · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreGreen sunfish
A small, aggressive freshwater fish native to North America, known for its blue-green colour and invasive potential in nPerch-like · Rivers and lakes
WorldGrenadiers
Deep-sea gadiform fish with slender bodies and long tails, found globally in ocean depths.Other · Deep sea · 1765
🇺🇸 United StatesGuadalupe bass
A rare Texas endemic black bass prized by anglers for its fighting spirit.Other · Rivers and lakes
WorldGuiyu oneiros
An early bony fish fossil from the Silurian period of China.Ancient · 2009
🇬🇧 United KingdomGwyniad
Rare whitefish found only in one Welsh lakeSalmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1848
🇳🇬 NigeriaGymnarchus
African electric fish with a long dorsal fin used for swimming and sensing prey.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1829
🇰🇭 Cambodia and 4 moreGyrinocheilus aymonieri
A Southeast Asian freshwater fish known for its suction-like mouth and role in the aquarium trade.Other · Rivers and lakes
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Great white shark: Sharkdiver.com, Public domain, source
- Gar: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Guiyu oneiros: Sun Jiao (Interaccoonale), CC BY 4.0, source
- Gymnarchus: Wiki-Harfus ; modified by Wildfeuer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Guadalupe bass: Nick Loveland, CC0, source
- Green sunfish: Duane Raver, Public domain, source
- Giant oceanic manta ray: jon hanson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Gwyniad: Peter Malloch, Public domain, source
- Giant snakehead: George Chernilevsky, Public domain, source
- Goldeye: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, source
- Green sturgeon: Muséum d'histoire Naturelle, Public domain, source
- Golden mahseer: Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Glasshead barreleye: Adrian Flynn, CC BY 1.0, source
- Oarfish: Sandstein, CC BY 3.0, source
- Grenadiers: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Giant grenadier: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gyrinocheilus aymonieri: Pseudogastromyzon, Public domain, source