Fish beginning with M
13 fish.
🇲🇼 Malawi and 2 moreMalawi eyebiter
Predatory cichlid from Lake Malawi known for its narrow body and unique feeding habits.Cichlid · Rivers and lakes
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreMandarin fish
Freshwater predatory perch native to East AsiaPerch-like · Rivers and lakes · 1855
🇦🇴 Angola and 3 moreMarbled lungfish
African lungfish with the largest known animal genome, found in East and Central Africa.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
WorldMariana snailfish
A deep-sea fish from the Mariana Trench with transparent skin and large eggs.Other · Deep sea · 2017
WorldMarine hatchetfish
Small deep-sea fish with a distinctive compressed body shape and bioluminescent camouflage.Other · Open ocean
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreMawsonia
Extinct giant coelacanth from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1907
WorldMegalodon
Extinct giant mackerel shark from the Miocene to Pliocene epochs.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1843
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreMexican tetra
A freshwater characin with surface and blind cave forms, studied for evolutionary biology.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇵🇭 Philippines and 4 moreMilkfish
The sole living species of the family Chanidae, found across the Indo-Pacific.Other · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United StatesMooneye
A family of large-eyed North American fish known for their metallic eye shine.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1819
WorldMormyrus
A genus of weakly electric freshwater fish known for their elongated snouts.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreMosquitofish
Small North American fish introduced globally for mosquito control.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreMuskellunge
Large freshwater predatory fish native to North America and the largest member of the pike family.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.
- Milkfish: Wiki Farazi, CC0, source
- Mooneye: Kevmin, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Megalodon: Géry PARENT, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mawsonia: Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Malawi eyebiter: Gareth J. Fraser, C. Darrin Hulsey, Ryan F. Bloomquist, Kristine Uyesu, CC BY 2.5, source
- Muskellunge: Engbretson, Eric / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
- Mexican tetra: User:Haplochromis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Marine hatchetfish: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mandarin fish: Andshel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mormyrus: MM. P. J. Smit & J. Green, Public domain, source
- Marbled lungfish: George Berninger Jr., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mosquitofish: NOZO, CC BY-SA 3.0, source