The 1750s
9 fish described in the 1750s, year by year.
1758
🇷🇺 Russia and 3 moreBurbot
A coldwater freshwater fish with a chin whisker, native to the Northern Hemisphere.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreGar
Ancient armored fish with lung-like swim bladders found in North American waters.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758
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 2 moreLongnose gar
A primitive ray-finned fish with a long snout and armored scales found in North America.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1758
WorldMormyrus
A genus of weakly electric freshwater fish known for their elongated snouts.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇪🇬 Egypt and 4 moreNile tilapia
A hardy cichlid farmed globally for food.Cichlid · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇷🇺 Russia and 1 moreRuffe
A small, aggressive freshwater fish native to Eurasia that has become a major invasive pest in North America.Perch-like · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSea lamprey
A jawless, parasitic fish native to the Northern Hemisphere that attacks other fish.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758
🇷🇺 RussiaSterlet
A small Eurasian sturgeon found in rivers flowing to the Black, Azov, and Caspian seas.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758
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
- Nile tilapia: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sea lamprey: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sterlet: Karelj, Public domain, source
- Longnose gar: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, source
- Gar: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Mormyrus: MM. P. J. Smit & J. Green, Public domain, source
- Burbot: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ruffe: Tiit Hunt, CC BY-SA 3.0, source