All fish
724 fish so far, best known first. 463 more are on the list to be written.
GroupSharkRayCarpCatfishSalmonidHerringCodTunaPerch-likeCichlidReef fishEelFlatfishLivebearerAncientOther
WaterRivers and lakesEstuaries and mangrovesCoasts and shelvesCoral reefsOpen oceanDeep seaPolar and cold seasCaves and springsBetween sea and river
🇪🇬 Egypt and 3 morePebbly fish
A silver characin from African rivers and lakes.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreBrook trout
A colorful freshwater char native to eastern North America, known for its spotted pattern and status as a popular game fSalmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1814
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 moreLake trout
Large freshwater char of northern lakesSalmonid · Rivers and lakes
WorldBrown trout
A widespread salmonid with river, lake and sea forms.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreDolly Varden trout
A cold-water char native to the North Pacific rim.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1792
🇺🇸 United StatesLahontan cutthroat trout
Large native trout of the Lahontan Basin in Nevada and surrounding states.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United StatesCalifornia golden trout
Native high-elevation trout of the Sierra NevadaSalmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1892
🇮🇹 Italy and 4 moreMarble trout
Adriatic freshwater salmonid with marbled skinSalmonid · Rivers and lakes
🇦🇹 Austria and 4 moreHuchen
A large freshwater salmonid native to the Danube basin in Central and Eastern Europe.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes
🇷🇺 Russia and 3 moreSiberian taimen
The world's largest salmonid, found in Eurasian rivers.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes
🇷🇺 Russia and 1 moreSakhalin taimen
Large, ancient salmonid of Northeast AsiaSalmonid · 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
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 moreArctic grayling
A cold-water salmon relative with a large, colourful dorsal fin.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1776
EuropeBlonde ray
A short-tailed skate found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.Ray · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreBat ray
A large eagle ray with wing-like fins found in the eastern Pacific.Ray · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreCownose ray
A migratory coastal ray with a distinctive head shape.Ray · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSpiny butterfly ray
A large Atlantic ray with a tail spine, valued for food and now critically endangered in many areas.Ray · Estuaries and mangroves
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreRound stingray
A small coastal ray from the eastern Pacific known for its painful tail spine.Ray · Coasts and shelves
WorldSmooth butterfly ray
A diamond-shaped ray with a short tail and no sting.Ray · Coasts and shelves
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreReticulate whipray
A large spotted stingray from the western Indian Ocean and eastern Mediterranean.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1789
WorldMangrove whipray
A spotted stingray of Indo-Pacific mangroves and reefs.Ray · Estuaries and mangroves · 1883
WorldPink whipray
Large Indo-Pacific stingray with a long tail and pinkish hue.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1906
WorldCowtail stingray
Large Indo-Pacific stingray with a distinctive tail fold.Ray · Rivers and lakes
Latin America and the CaribbeanMunk's pygmy devil ray
Smallest devil ray in the eastern Pacific OceanRay · Coasts and shelves · 1987
EuropeRabbit fish
Deep-water cartilaginous fish with a rabbit-like headOther · Coasts and shelves
WorldSawfish
Large rays with a toothed rostrum found in tropical coastal waters.Ray · Coasts and shelves
WorldMako shark
Fast predatory sharks of the genus Isurus, known for their speed and blue-grey colour.Shark · Open ocean
WorldOilfish
Deep-sea snake mackerel with oily, laxative flesh.Other · Open ocean
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreSmallmouth yellowfish
A hardy sport fish native to South Africa's Orange-Vaal river system.Carp · Rivers and lakes
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 moreWobbegong
Camouflaged bottom-dwelling sharks found in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean.Shark · Coasts and shelves
WorldHammerhead shark
Sharks with T-shaped heads for better vision and sensing prey.Shark · Coasts and shelves
🇹🇭 Thailand and 3 moreGiant freshwater stingray
The widest freshwater fish in the world, found in Southeast Asian rivers.Ray · Rivers and lakes · 1852
WorldBluespotted ribbontail ray
A small, colourful reef stingray with electric blue spots.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1775
EuropeCommon stingray
A venomous ray of Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal waters.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1758
WorldBowmouth guitarfish
A large, thorny ray with a W-shaped mouth found in the western Indo-Pacific.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1801
WorldGiant guitarfish
A large coastal ray found in the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea, facing severe population declines.Ray · Coasts and shelves
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreMarbled electric ray
A benthic electric ray from the eastern Atlantic known for its powerful shocks and mottled brown skin.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1810
WorldCommon guitarfish
A critically endangered cartilaginous fish native to the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.Shark · Coasts and shelves
EuropeThornback ray
A spiny-skinned ray found in European coastal waters.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1758
🇨🇦 CanadaLittle skate
Small Atlantic skate known for walking on the sea floor.Ray · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United StatesBig skate
Largest skate in North American Pacific watersRay · Coasts and shelves · 1855
WorldAngelshark
Flat-bodied sharks that bury themselves in sandy seabeds to ambush prey.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1758
WorldBroadnose sevengill shark
A large coastal shark with seven gill slits and spotted skin.Shark · Coasts and shelves
🇺🇸 United States and 3 morePacific angelshark
A flat-bodied ambush shark of the eastern Pacific coast.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1859
WorldSpinner shark
A fast requiem shark known for spinning leaps out of water.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1839
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreCaribbean reef shark
Large requiem shark of western Atlantic coral reefsShark · Coasts and shelves · 1876
WorldPigeye shark
A robust coastal requiem shark often confused with the bull shark.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1839
WorldKitefin shark
A deep-sea squaliform shark known for its bioluminescence and large oil-filled liver.Shark · Deep sea · 1788
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pebbly fish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Brook trout: Engbretson, Eric, Public domain, source
- Lake trout: Knepp Timothy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
- Brown trout: Duane Raver, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
- Dolly Varden trout: The original uploader was PDH at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, source
- Lahontan cutthroat trout: Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office, Public domain, source
- California golden trout: Joshpryor, CC BY 4.0, source
- Marble trout: Jaz pa pojdem at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Huchen: Mladica, Public domain, source
- Siberian taimen: Ojensen at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, source
- Sakhalin taimen: Totti, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Grayling: High Plains Grifter, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arctic grayling: No machine-readable author provided. AKSMITH assumed (based on copyrig, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Blonde ray: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bat ray: Martin Holst Friborg Pedersen, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cownose ray: This illustration was made by Citron You must credit this : Citron / C, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Spiny butterfly ray: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Public domain, source
- Round stingray: michael h j c, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Smooth butterfly ray: Tomas Willems & Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Reticulate whipray: Aurimas Mikalauskas, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mangrove whipray: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Pink whipray: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cowtail stingray: Julien Willem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Munk's pygmy devil ray: Nick Bonzey, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Rabbit fish: MAREANO/Havforskingsinstituttet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sawfish: Diliff, CC BY 2.5, source
- Mako shark: NOAA Observer Program, Public domain, source
- Oilfish: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Smallmouth yellowfish: Craig Thom, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wobbegong: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hammerhead shark: suneko, CC BY 2.0, source
- Giant freshwater stingray: Barry Rogge, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bluespotted ribbontail ray: Jens Petersen, CC BY 2.5, source
- Common stingray: Chris Taklis, CC BY 4.0, source
- Bowmouth guitarfish: Rhina_ancylostoma.jpg : OpenCage derivative work: Yzx, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Giant guitarfish: Peter Giger, CC BY 2.0, source
- Marbled electric ray: Philippe Guillaume, CC BY 2.0, source
- Common guitarfish: Esquilo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Thornback ray: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Little skate: Yzx, Public domain, source
- Big skate: NOAA - AFSC, Public domain, source
- Angelshark: RYO SATO, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Broadnose sevengill shark: José María Pérez Nuñez, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pacific angelshark: Chris_huh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Spinner shark: Jean-Lou Justine, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Caribbean reef shark: Albert kok, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pigeye shark: Tassapon KRAJANGDARA, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kitefin shark: Chris_huh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source