This is a list of fish common names. While some common names refer to a single species or family, others have been used for a confusing variety of different types; the articles listed here should explain the possibilities if the name is ambiguous.

A

• African glass catfish
• African lungfish
• Aholehole
• Airbreathing catfish
• Airsac catfish
• Alaska blackfish
• Albacore
• Alewife
• Alfonsino
• Algae eater
• Alligatorfish
• Amago
• American sole
• Amur pike
• Anchovy
• Anemonefish
• Angelfish
• Angel shark
• Anglemouth
• Angler catfish
• Anglerfish
• Antarctic cod
• Antarctic dragonfish
• Antarctic icefish
• Antenna codlet
• Arapaima
• Arowana
• Archerfish
• Arctic char
• Armored catfish
• Armored gurnard
• Armored searobin
• Armorhead
• Armorhead catfish
• Arrowtooth eel
• Aruana
• Asian carp
• Asiatic glassfish
• Atka mackerel
• Atlantic cod
• Atlantic eel
• Atlantic herring
• Atlantic salmon
• Atlantic saury
• Atlantic trout
• Australasian salmon
• Australian grayling
• Australian Herring
• Australian lungfish
• Australian prowfish
• Ayu

B

• Baikal oilfish
• bamboo shart
• bandfish
• bango
• bangu
• banjo catfish
• barb
• barbel
• barbeled dragonfish
• barbeled houndshark
• barbelless catfish
• barfish
• barracuda
• barracudina
• barramundi
• barreleye
• basking shark
• bass
• basslet
• batfish
• bat ray
• beachsalmon
• beaked salmon
• beaked sandfish
• beardfish
• beluga sturgeon
• bent-tooth
• betta
• bichir
• bigeye
• bigeye squaretail
• bighead carp
• bigscale
• bigscale fish
• bigscale pomfret
• billfish
• bitterling
• black bass
• blackchin
• blackfish
• blacktip reef shark
• black dragonfish
• black mackerel
• black pickerel
• black prickleback
• black sea bass
• blacksmelt
• black swallower
• black tetra
• black triggerfish
• bleak
• blenny
• blind goby
• blind shark
• blue catfish
• blue eye
• bluefin tuna
• bluefish
• bluegill
• Blue_or_rippled_triggerfish
• blue shark
• blue triggerfish
• blue whiting
• bluntnose knifefish
• bluntnose minnow
• boafish
• boarfish
• bobtail snipe eel
• bocaccio
• boga
• Bombay duck
• bonefish
• bonito
• bonnetmouth
• bonytongue
• bottlenose
• bowfin
• boxfish
• bramble shark
• bream
• bristlemouth
• broadband dogfish
• brook lamprey
• brook trout
• brotula
• brown trout
• buffalofish
• bullhead
• bullhead shark
• bull shark
• bull trout
• burbot
• buri
• burrfish
• burrowing goby
• butterfish
• butterfly ray
• butterflyfish

C

• California flyingfish
• California halibut
• California smoothtongue
• canary rockfish
• candiru
• candlefish
• capelin
• cardinalfish
• carp
• carpet shark
• carpsucker
• catalufa
• catfish
• catla
• cat shark
• cavefish
• Celebes rainbowfish
• central mudminnow
• cepalin
• chain pickerel
• channel catfish
• char
• cherry salmon
• chimaera
• chinook salmon
• chub
• chubsucker
• chum salmon
• cichlid
• cisco
• climbing catfish
• climbing gourami
• climbing perch
• clingfish
• clownfish
• clown loach
• Clown triggerfish
• cobbler
• cobia
• cod
• cod icefish
• codlet
• codling
• coelacanth
• coffinfish
• coho salmon
• collared carpet shark
• collared dogfish
• combfish
• combtail gourami
• combtooth blenny
• common carp
• conger eel
• convict blenny
• cookie-cutter shark
• coolie loach
• cornetfish
• cowfish
• cownose ray
• cow shark
• crappie
• creek chub
• crestfish
• crevice kelpfish
• croaker
• crocodile icefish
• crocodile shark
• crucian carp
• cuchia
• cusk-eel
• cuskfish
• cutlassfish
• cutthroat eel
• cutthroat trout

D

• dab
• dace
• daggertooth
• danio
• damselfish
• darter
• dartfish
• dealfish
• deep-sea anglerfish
• deep sea bonefish
• deep sea eel
• deep-sea smelt
• deepwater cardinalfish
• deepwater flathead
• deepwater stingray
• demoiselle
• denticle herring
• devil ray
• discus (fish)
• diver
• dogfish
• dogfish shark
• dojo loach
• Dolly Varden
• dolphin (fish)
• dorab
• dory
• dottyback
• dragonet
• dragonfish
• dragon goby
• driftfish
• driftwood catfish
• drum (fish)
• duckbill
• duckbilled barracudina
• duckbill eel
• dwarf gourami
• dwarf loach

E

• eagle ray
• eel
• eelblenny
• eel cod
• eel-goby
• eelpout
• eeltail catfish
• elasmobranch
• electric catfish
• electric eel
• electric knifefish
• electric ray
• electric stargazer
• elephantfish
• elephantnose fish
• elver
• emperor
• emperor bream
• escolar
• eucla cod
• eulachon
• European eel
• European flounder
• European minnow

F

• false brotula
• false cat shark
• false moray
• false trevally
• fangtooth
• fathead sculpin
• featherback
• featherfin knifefish
• fierasfer
• filefish
• finback cat shark
• fingerfish
• firefish
• flabby whalefish
• flagblenny
• flagfin
• flagfish
• flagtail
• flashlight fish
• flatfish
• flathead
• flathead catfish
• flat loach
• flounder
• flying characin
• flying gurnard
• flyingfish
• footballfish
• forehead brooder
• four-eyed fish
• freshwater eel
• freshwater flyingfish
• freshwater hatchetfish
• freshwater herring
• freshwater shark
• frigate mackerel
• frilled shark
• frogfish
• frogmouth catfish
• fusilier

G

• galjoen fish
• Ganges shark
• gar
• garden eel
• garpike
• ghost flathead
• ghost knifefish
• ghost pipefish
• ghoul
• giant gourami
• giant sea bass
• giant wels
• gianttail
• gibberfish
• Gila trout
• gizzard shad
• glass catfish
• glassfish
• glass knifefish
• goatfish
• Goblin Shark
• goby
• golden dojo
• golden loach
• goldeye
• goldfish
• goldspotted killifish
• gombessa
• goosefish
• gopher rockfish
• gouramie
• grass carp
• graveldiver
• grayling
• gray mullet
• gray reef shark
• great white shark
• green swordtail
• greeneye
• greenling
• grenadier
• grideye
• ground shark
• grouper
• grunion
• grunt
• grunter
• grunt sculpin
• gudgeon
• guitarfish
• gulf menhaden
• gulper eel
• gulper
• gunnel
• guppy
• gurnard

H

• haddock
• hagfish
• hairtail
• hairyfish
• hake
• half-gill
• halfbeak
• halfmoon
• halibut
• halosaur
• hamlet
• hammerhead shark
• handfish
• harelip sucker
• hatchetfish
• hawkfish
• herring
• herring smelt
• hill-stream loach
• hog sucker
• horn shark
• horsefish
• houndshark
• huchen
• Humuhumunukunukuapua'a - state fish of Hawaii (Reef Triggerfish)

I

• icefish
• ide
• ilisha
• inanga
• inconnu
• Indian mullet
• iniom

J

• jack
• jackfish
• Jack Dempsey (yes, really)
• Japanese eel
• jawfish
• jellynose fish
• jewel tetra
• jewfish
• john dory

K

• Kafue pike
• kahawai
• kaluga
• kanyu
• kelp perch
• kelpfish
• killifish
• king-of-the-herring
• king-of-the-salmon
• kissing gourami
• knifefish
• knifejaw
• koi
• kokanee
• kokopu
• kuhli loach

L

• labyrinth fish
• ladyfish
• lagena
• lake trout
• lake whitefish
• lampfish
• lamprey
• lancetfish
• lantern-eye
• lanternfish
• large-eye bream
• largemouth bass
• largenose fish
• leaffish
• leatherjacket
• lefteye flounder
• lemon shark
• lenok
• lightfish
• lighthousefish
• limia
• ling
• ling cod
• lionfish
• livebearer
• lizardfish
• loach
• loach catfish
• loach goby
• longfin
• longfin dragonfish
• long-finned char
• long-finned pike
• longjaw mudsucker
• longneck eel
• longnose chimaera
• longnose dace
• longnose lancetfish
• longnose sucker
• long-whiskered catfish
• lookdown catfish
• loosejaw
• louvar
• loweye catfish
• luminous hake
• lumpfish
• lumpsucker
• lungfish
• lyretail

M

• mackerel
• mackerel shark
• madtom
• mahi mahi
• mahseer
• mail-cheeked fish
• mako shark
• manefish
• Mangur
• man-of-war fish
• Manta Ray
• marblefish
• marine hatchetfish
• marlin
• masu salmon
• medaka
• medusafish
• Megamouth Shark
• menhaden
• merluccid hake
• Mexican blind cavefish
• Mexican golden trout
• midshipman
• milkfish
• minnow
• mojarra
• mola
• molly
• monkeyface prickleback
• monkfish
• mooneye
• moonfish
• Moorish idol
• mora
• Moray Eel
• morid cod
• morwong
• Moses sole
• mosquitofish
• mosshead warbonnet
• mouthbrooder
• Mozambique tilapia
• mrigal
• mudfish
• mudminnow
• mudskipper
• mudsucker
• mullet
• mummichog
• muskellunge
• mustache triggerfish
• mustard eel

N

• naked-back knifefish
• nase
• needlefish
• neon tetra
• New World rivuline
• New Zealand smelt
• nibbler
• noodlefish
• North American darter
• North American freshwater catfish
• Northern anchovy
• Northern clingfish
• Northern lampfish
• Northern pearleye
• Northern pike
• Northern sea robin
• Northern squawfish
• Northern Stargazer
• Norwegian Atlantic salmon
• nurseryfish
• nurse shark

O

• Oarfish
• Ocean perch
• Ocean sunfish
• Oceanic flyingfish
• Oceanic white tipped shark
• Oilfish
• Oldwife
• Old World knifefish
• Old World rivuline
• Olive flounder
• Opah
• Opaleye
• Orange roughy
• Orangespine unicorn fish
• Orangestriped triggerfish
• Orbicular velvetfish
• Orbicular batfish
• Oregon chub
• Oreo
• Oriental loach

P

• Pacific albacore
• Pacific argentine
• Pacific cod
• Pacific hake
• Pacific herring
• Pacific lamprey
• Pacific salmon
• Pacific saury
• Pacific trout
• Pacific viperfish
• pacus
• paddlefish
• paperbone
• paradise fish
• parasitic catfish
• parrotfish
• peacock flounder
• peamouth
• pearleye
• pearlfish
• pearl perch
• pejerrey
• peladillo
• pelagic cod
• pelican eel
• pelican gulper
• pencil catfish
• pencilfish
• pencilsmelt
• perch
• pickerel
• pigfish
• pike-characid
• pike conger
• pike eel
• pike
• pikeblenny
• pikehead
• pikeperch
• pilchard
• pilotfish
• pineconefish
• pink salmon
• pipefish
• piranha
• pirarucu
• pirate perch
• plaice
• platy
• platyfish
• pleco
• plownose chimaera
• plunderfish
• poacher
• pollock
• pomfret
• pompano
• ponyfish
• poolfish
• popeye catafula
• porbeagle shark
• porcupinefish
• porgy
• Port Jackson shark
• powen
• priapumfish
• prickleback
• pricklefish
• prickly shark
• prowfish
• pufferfish
• pumpkinseed
• pupfish
• pygmy sunfish

Q

• quillback
• quillfish

R

• rabbitfish
• racehorse
• Raccoon butterfly fish
• ragfish
• rainbow trout
• rainbowfish
• rasbora
• ratfish
• rattail
• Ray
• razorfish
• red snapper
• redfish
• redhorse sucker
• redmouth whalefish
• redside
• redtooth triggerfish
• red velvetfish
• red whalefish
• reedfish
• remora
• requiem shark
• ribbon eel
• ribbon sawtail fish
• ribbonbearer
• ribbonfish
• rice eel
• ricefish
• ridgehead
• righteye flounder
• Rio Grande perch
• river loach
• river shark
• river stingray
• rivuline
• roach
• rock bass
• rock beauty
• rock cod
• rockfish
• rockling
• rockweed gunnel
• rohu
• ronquil
• roosterfish
• ropefish
• rough pomfret
• rough scad
• roughy
• roundhead
• round herring
• round stingray
• round whitefish
• rudd
• rudderfish
• ruffe
• Russian sturgeon

S

• sabalo
• sabertooth
• saber-toothed blenny
• sabertooth fish
• sablefish
• sailback scorpionfish
• sailbearer
• sailfin silverside
• sailfish
• salamanderfish
• salmon
• salmon shark
• sandbar shark
• sandburrower
• sand dab
• sanddiver
• sand eel
• sand goby
• sand tiger
• sandfish
• sand knifefish
• sand lance
• sandperch
• sandroller
• sand stargazer
• sand tiger
• sand tilefish
• sardine
• sargassumfish
• sauger
• saury
• sawfish
• saw shark
• sawtooth eel
• scabbard fish
• scaleless black dragonfish
• scaly dragonfish
• scat
• scorpionfish
• sculpin
• scup
• scythe butterfish
• sea bass
• sea catfish
• sea chub
• seadevil
• seadragon
• seahorse
• sea lamprey
• seamoth
• sea raven
• searobin
• sea snail
• sea toad
• seatrout
• sergeant-major
• shad
• shark
• sharksucker
• sharpnose pufferfish
• sheatfish
• sheepshead
• sheepshead minnow
• shell-ear
• shiner
• shortnose chimaera
• shortnose greeneye
• shovelnose sturgeon
• shrimpfish
• Siamese fighting fish
• sillago
• silver carp
• Silver Dollar
• silver driftfish
• silver hake
• silverside
• sixgill ray
• sixgill shark
• skate
• skilfish
• skipjack tuna
• skipping goby
• slender barracudina
• slender mola
• slender snipe eel
• sleeper
• sleeper shark
• slickhead
• slimehead
• slimy
• slipmouth
• small-eye squaretail
• smalltooth sawfish
• smelt
• smelt-whiting
• smooth dogfish
• smoothtongue
• snaggletooth shark(extinct)
• snailfish
• snake eel
• snakehead
• snake mackerel
• snake mudhead
• snapper
• snipe eel
• snipefish
• snook
• snubnose eel
• snubnose parasitic eel
• soapfish
• sockeye salmon
• soldierfish
• sole
• South American darter
• South American Lungfish
• southern flounder
• southern grayling
• southern hake
• southern sandfish
• southern smelt
• spadefish
• spaghetti eel
• Spanish mackerel
• spearfish
• spiderfish
• spikefish
• spinefoot
• spiny-back
• spiny basslet
• spiny dogfish
• spiny dwarf catfish
• spiny eel
• spinyfin
• splitfin
• spookfish
• spotted dogfish
• sprat
• springfish
• squarehead catfish
• squaretail
• squawfish
• squeaker
• squirrelfish
• staghorn sculpin
• stargazer
• starry flounder
• steelhead
• stickleback
• stingfish
• stingray
• stonecat
• stonefish
• stoneroller minnow
• straptail
• stream catfish
• streamer fish
• striped bass
• sturgeon
• sucker
• suckerfish
• suckermouth armored catfish
• summer flounder
• Sundaland noodlefish
• sunfish
• surf sardine
• surfperch
• surgeonfish
• swallower
• swamp-eel
• swampfish
• sweeper
• swordfish
• swordtail

T

• tadpole cod
• tadpole fish
• taimen
• tang
• tapetail
• tarpon
• telescopefish
• temperate bass
• temperate ocean-bass
• temperate perch
• tench
• tenpounder
• tenuis
• tetra
• thorny catfish
• thornfish
• thornyhead
• threadfin
• threadfin bream
• threadsail
• threadtail
• threespine stickleback
• three-toothed puffer
• Thresher Shark
• tigerperch
• tiger shark
• tilapia
• tilefish
• titan triggerfish
• toadfish
• tonguefish
• tope
• topminnow
• torpedo
• torrent catfish
• torrent fish
• trahira
• treefish
• trevally
• triggerfish
• triplefin blenny
• triplespine
• tripletail
• tripodfish
• trout
• trout-perch
• trumpeter
• trumpetfish
• trunkfish
• tubeblenny
• tube-eye
• tube-snout
• tubeshoulder
• tui chub
• tuna
• turbot
• turkeyfish

U

• unicornfish
• upside-down catfish

V

• velvet-belly shark
• velvet catfish
• velvetfish
• vendace
• vimba
• viperfish

W

• wahoo
• walking catfish
• walleye
• walleye pollock
• walu also known as butter fish.
• warbonnet
• warty angler
• waryfish
• wasp fish
• weasel shark
• weatherfish
• weever
• weeverfish
• wels
• whalefish
• whale shark
• whiff
• whiptail gulper
• whitebait
• white croaker
• whitefish
• white marlin
• white shark
• whitetip reef shark
• whiting
• wobbegong
• wolf-eel
• wolffish
• wolf-herring
• woody sculpin
• worm eel
• wormfish
• wrasse
• wrymouth

X

Y

• yellowmargin triggerfish
• yellow perch
• yellowfin tuna

Z

• zander
• zebra danio
• zebrafish
• zebra shark
• ziege
• zingel

See also

• List of freshwater aquarium fish species
• List of edible fish