Types of Fish

Fish are aquatic creatures found throughout the globe. There are about 28,000 species of fish. Read on to know more about types of fish.
Types of Fish
Fish are the oldest vertebrates of the world. The first fish is supposed to be found about 500 million years ago. These are the aquatic vertebrates, typically ectothermic (cold-blooded). Their body is covered with scales and provided with two sets of paired fins and many unpaired fins. Most fish have a bony skeleton, except rays and sharks have cartilaginous skeleton. Fish breathe using the gills, which perform an exchange of gases between the fish’s blood and water. Most fish feed on small plants, while some fish such as shark feed on other fish.

There is a huge variety of fish, differing in size, shape and color. Their sizes highly range from 8 mm long stout infant fish to 16 m whale shark. There are over 28,000 known species of fish found throughout the world. Out of them, almost 27,000 species include bony fish. Remaining 970 species include rays, sharks and chimeras and 108 lampreys and hag fishes. Fish are found in all types of water bodies all over the globe. Fish can be kept in an aquarium as the pets or used to prepare wonderful recipes.

Types of Fish

There are various types of fish, depending upon their habitats and characteristics. Some major types of fish are freshwater fish, tropical fish, marine fish, cold water fish, aquarium fish, etc.

Freshwater Fish

These types of fish spent entire or parts of their lives in fresh water bodies, such as lakes, rivers with a salinity less than 0.05%. About 41% of fish species are found in fresh water. Here is a list of freshwater fish:
  • African Butter Catfish
  • African Cichlid
  • African Snakehead
  • Akar betta
  • Albino Cory
  • Amiet's Lyretail
  • Arnold
  • Asian Arowana
  • Aulonocara Benga
  • Aulonocara Maulana
  • Australian
  • Pearl Arowana
  • Azureus Cichlid
  • Badis
  • Bala Sharks
  • Banded Bichir
  • Banded Knife Fish
  • Banded Shovelnose Catfish
  • Bangka Snakehead
  • Baram Snakehead
  • Barca Snakehead
  • Barred Knife Fish
  • Batik Loach
  • Bearded Cory
  • Beauty Mouthbrooder
  • Benny Tetra
  • Betta fish
  • Big Eye Mouthbrooder
  • Big Toothed Piranha
  • Bigtooth River Stingray
  • Black Arowana
  • Black Barred Myleus
  • Black Diamond Gold Piranha
  • Black Ghost Knife
  • Black Neon Tetra
  • Black Phantom tetra
  • Black Piranha
  • Black Small Fighter
  • Black finned Snakehead
  • Blackskirt Tetra
  • Blind Cavefish
  • Bloodfin Tetra
  • Blotched Snakehead
  • Blue Acara
  • Blue Convict Cichlid
  • Blue Discus
  • Blue Gourami
  • Blue Panda Apisto
  • Blue spotted Snakehead
  • Blyth's Loach
  • Bolivian ram
  • Brandti Piranha
  • Bream
  • Bristle nosed Catfish
  • Brown Betta
  • Brown Discus
  • Bucktoothed Tetra
  • Buenos Aires Tetra
  • Bulldog Pleco
  • Bullseye Snakehead
  • Burmese Snakehead
  • Candiru
  • Cardinal Tetra
  • Celebes Halfbeak
  • Ceylon Snakehead
  • Chel Snakehead
  • Cherry Barb
  • Chevron Snakehead
  • Chilumba
  • Chinese Snakehead
  • Cinnamon Killifish
  • Clown Barb
  • Clown Killifish
  • Clown Knife Fish
  • Clown Loach
  • Clown Pleco
  • Cochu's Blue Tetra
  • Cockatoo dwarf Cichlid
  • Compressed Cichlid
  • Congo Blackfin
  • Congo Tetra
  • Convict Cichlid
  • Cortes Swordtail
  • Crappie
  • Cross River Puffer
  • Crystel Eyed Catfish
  • Demasoni Cichlid
  • Diamond tetra
  • Double Lipspot Mouthbrooder
  • Dovii Cichlid
  • Duckbill Catfish
  • Dusky Piranha
  • Dwarf Croaking Gourami
  • Dwarf Gourami
  • Dwarf Livebearer
  • Dwarf Loach
  • Dwarf Mouthbrooder Betta
  • El Quince Swordtail
  • Electric Blue Hap
  • Electric Catfish
  • Emperor Snakehead
  • Eureka Cichlid
  • Eyespot Mouthbrooder
  • Fahaka Puffer
  • Father Strohs Mouthbrooder
  • Figure Eight Puffer
  • Firebird Cichlid
  • Firehead cichlid
  • Firemouth Cichlid
  • Flag acara
  • Flagtailed Catfish
  • Flame Tetra
  • Flier Cichlid
  • Forrest Betta
  • Freshwater Barracuda
  • Freshwater Butterflyfish
  • Freshwater Garfish
  • Freshwater Moray Eel
  • Frontosa Cichlid
  • Fundulopanchax batesii
  • Gar
  • German Blue Ram
  • Geryi Piranha
  • Ghost Knife Fish
  • Giant Danio
  • Giant Snakehead
  • Glass catfish
  • Glass Knife Fish
  • Glowlight Tetra
  • Gold Gourami
  • Gold Mixteco
  • Golden Nugget Pleco
  • Golden Snakehead
  • Goldfish
  • Grant's Peacock cichlid
  • Gray Bichir
  • Grayling
  • Green Discus
  • Green Puffer
  • Green Severum
  • Green Terror Cichlid
  • Green Throat Mouthbrooder
  • Guppies
  • Guyana Leaffish
  • Heller's Cichlid
  • Highland Swordtail
  • Hikari Danio
  • Hogchoker
  • Holland's Piranha
  • Honey Gourami
  • Hoplo Catfish
  • Hora's Loach
  • Humeralis Piranha
  • Lamp eye tetra
  • Leopard Cory
  • Leopard Danio
  • Leporinus
  • Lesser Spiny Eel
  • Lyretail Killifish
  • Madagascar Rainbowfish
  • Maison's Peacock
  • Malawi Eyebiter
  • Malebo Puffer
  • Marbled Headstander
  • Mbu Puffer
  • Mekong Puffer
  • Midas Cichlid
  • Monterray Platy
  • Montezuma Swordtail
  • Moonlight Gourami
  • Mossaic Stingray
  • Motoro Sting Ray
  • Mousetail Knife fish
  • Neon Tetra
  • New Ediths Mouthbrooder
  • Niger Snakehead
  • Night Snakehead
  • Norman's Lampeye
  • Northern Mountain Swordtail
  • Ocellated Puffer Fish
  • Ocellated Snakehead
  • Olive Danio
  • One Spot Mouthbrooder
  • Orange Finned Danio
  • Orange spotted Snakehead
  • Ornate Bichir
  • Ornate Pim
  • Ornate Tetra
  • Oscar Fish
  • Otocinclus
  • Otocinclus Catfish
  • Pacman catfish
  • Panaw Snakehead
  • Panda cory
  • Paradise Fish
  • Pareutropius buffei
  • Peacock Mouthbrooder
  • Pearl Danio
  • Pearl Gourami
  • Penguin Tetra
  • Pepper Tetra
  • Peppered Corydoras
  • Pickerel
  • Pictus Catfish
  • Pike
  • Pike Livebearer
  • Pike Piranha
  • Pinche Piranha
  • Pingi Logsucker
  • Pink Tailed Chalceus
  • Piranha
  • Piraya Piranha
  • Platy
  • Plumed Lyretail
  • Polka Dot Loach
  • Polka Dot Ray
  • Powder Blue Cichlid
  • Purple Spotted Gudgeon
  • Rainbow Shark
  • Rainbow Snakehead
  • Rainbow Trout
  • Red Belly Pacu
  • Red Devil
  • Red Empress Cichlid
  • Red Eyed Tetra
  • Red Heckles Discus
  • Red Hook Silver Dollar
  • Red jewel cichlid
  • Red Sumatran Fighter
  • Red Tailed Catfish
  • Red Tailed Shark
  • Red Terror Cichlid
  • Redbelly Piranha
  • Redish Dwarf Fighter
  • Rio Aloyac Platy
  • Rose Danio
  • Royal pleco
  • Rummy Nose Tetra
  • Sabretooth Tetra
  • Sailfin Molly
  • Sailfin Pim
  • San Juan Cory
  • Scissortail
  • Serpae Tetra
  • Serrated Piranha
  • Severum
  • Sheepshead Swordtail
  • Siamese Algae Eater
  • Siamese Fighting Fish
  • Sieve Cichlid
  • Silver Dollar
  • Silver hatchetfish
  • Silver Hemiodopsis
  • Silver Mylossoma
  • Silver Prochilodus
  • Silvertip Tetra
  • Simor Fighter
  • Skunk Botia
  • Skunk Cory
  • Slender Betta
  • Slender Hemiodus
  • Slender Pygme Swordtail
  • Small Fin Fighter
  • Smaragd Fighting Fish
  • Smooth Back River Stingray
  • Snakeskin Gourami
  • Socolof's Tetra
  • Speckled Platy
  • Splendid Snakehead
  • Spotted cachorro
  • Spotted Green Puffer
  • Spotted Silver Dollar
  • Spotted Snakehead
  • Sterbai Cory Cat
  • Sterlet
  • Striped Panchax
  • Striped Silver Dollar
  • Sunfish
  • Swordtail Characin
  • Tail Light Tetra
  • T-Bar Cichlid
  • Ten Spotted Livebearer
  • Tenuis Tetra
  • Texas Cichlid
  • Thick Lib Gourami
  • Thinbar Datnoid
  • Three Lined Cory
  • Three Spot Tetra
  • Tiger Barb
  • Tiger Botia
  • Tigrinus Catfish
  • Tilapia
  • Tiretrack Eels
  • Tomi Mouthbrooder
  • Tricolor Cichlid
  • Trout
  • Turquoise Cichlid
  • Twin Spot Flag Cichlid
  • Umbie
  • Umbrella Cichlid
  • Upland Swordtail
  • Upside-down Catfish
  • Viejita Apisto
  • Walleye Pike
  • Wasers Mouthbrooder
  • Wessel's Cichlid
  • West African Lungfish
  • Western Mosquitofish
  • White Piranha
  • Widebar Datnoid
  • Wimple Piranha
  • Wine Red Betta
  • Wolf Fish
  • Yellow Acara
  • Yellow King Piranha
  • Yellow Swordtail
  • YoYo Loach
  • Zander
Marine Fish

These fish are found in seawater. There are about 15,000 species of marine fish. Every species has its own appearance, characteristics, reproduction, environmental needs, nutritional requirements, survival adaptations and compatibility with other marine creatures. Most marine fish need tropical climate. Here is a list of marine fish.
  • Achilles tang
  • Algae blenny
  • Antennata Lionfish
  • Arabian angel
  • Arc eye hawkfish
  • Asfur Angelfish
  • Atlantic Blue Tang
  • Auriga Butterflyfish
  • Axilspot hogfish
  • Balloonfish
  • Banana Wrasse
  • Banded goby
  • Banded shark
  • Banded snake eel
  • Bandfin cardinalfish
  • Bar goby
  • Barred rabbitfish
  • Barrier Reef Chromis
  • Batfish
  • Beaked coralfish
  • Bennet's butterfly
  • Bicolor Angelfish
  • Bicolor Parrotfish
  • Bicolor rabbitfish
  • Bicolored Foxface
  • Bigeye cardinalfish
  • Bignose unicornfish
  • Bird Wrasse
  • Black and gold chromis
  • Black and White Chromis
  • Black and white damsel
  • Black angel
  • Black axil chromis
  • Black Cardinal fish
  • Black Damselfish
  • Black triggerfish
  • Black velvet angelfish
  • Black velvet damsel
  • Black back Butterflyfish
  • Blackbar triggerfish
  • Blackbelly Triggerfish
  • Black-blotched porcupinefish
  • Blackcap Basslet
  • Blackfin Hogfish
  • Black headed Filefish
  • Black mouth Chromis
  • Black patch trigger
  • Black spotted Puffer
  • Blood Red Hawkfish
  • Blue and Gold Damselfish
  • Blue angel
  • Blue chromis
  • Blue devil
  • Blue Dot Toby
  • Blue flasher wrasse
  • Blue head tilefish
  • Blue jaw tilefish
  • Blue line toby
  • Blue mandarin
  • Blue Reef Chromis
  • Blue spotted stingray
  • Blue spotted wrasse
  • Blue streak damsel
  • Blue stripe goby
  • Blue striped butterfly
  • Blue striped clownfish
  • Blue Whale
  • Blue tang surgeonfish
  • Blue back angel
  • Blue chin Triggerfish
  • Blue face Angelfish
  • Blue line Squirrelfish
  • Blue mask Angelfish
  • Bluespine Unicornfish
  • Blue spot butterfly
  • Blue spot damsel
  • Blue spotted angel
  • Blue spotted Grouper
  • Blue spotted Jawfish
  • Blue spotted triggerfish
  • Bluestripe Pipefish
  • Bluestripe snapper
  • Bottlenose Dolphin
  • Borneo damsel
  • Bower's Parrotfish
  • Brazilian gramma
  • Brown sailfin tang
  • Brown surgeonfish
  • Brown banded Bamboo Shark
  • Brown banded pipefish
  • Bursa trigger
  • Canary Fang Blenny
  • Carberryi Anthias
  • Carpet Eel Blenny
  • Cat Shark
  • Catalina Goby
  • Cherub Angelfish
  • Chevron Tang
  • Chinese trumpetfish
  • Choat's Wrasse
  • Chocolate Surgeonfish
  • Chromis Citron Goby
  • Clark's Clownfish
  • Clown butterfly
  • Cockatoo waspfish
  • Cods
  • Comical blenny
  • Common lionfish
  • Convict Blenny
  • Convict surgeonfish
  • Copperband Butterflyfish
  • Coral Beauty Angelfish
  • Coral Catfish
  • Coral Hogfish
  • Croakers
  • Cube Boxfish
  • Cutlass fish
  • Cuttlefish
  • Dartfish goby
  • Dispar Anthias
  • Dog toothed cardinalfish
  • Dolphins
  • Dragon Moray Eel
  • Dragon Pipefish
  • Dwarf Lionfish
  • Emperor Angelfish
  • Epaulette Shark
  • Exquisite butterfly
  • Fathead Anthias
  • Fiji Blue Devil Damselfish
  • Filamented Flasher Wrasse
  • Five Bar Wrasse
  • Five Stripe Wrasse
  • Flagfin Angelfish
  • Flagtail Grouper
  • Flamefish
  • Flower cardinal
  • Forceps fish
  • Foxface Rabbitfish
  • Freckled Hawkfish
  • French Angelfish
  • Giant moray
  • Glass Eye Squirrelfish
  • Goblin Shark
  • Gold Spotted Rabbitfish
  • Golden Butterflyfish
  • Gold spotted Snake Eel
  • Gray unicornfish
  • Great White Shark
  • Great Barracuda
  • Green Mandarinfish
  • Harlequin Bass
  • Hawaiian Squirrelfish
  • Hogfish
  • Horn Shark
  • Horrid stonefish
  • Humpback Whales
  • Humpback unicornfish
  • Humphead bannerfish
  • Indian Triggerfish
  • Jackknife Fish
  • Jewel Damselfish
  • Jewel moray
  • Jellyfish
  • Klein's Butterflyfish
  • Koi fish
  • Killer whales
  • Ladder wrasse
  • Large toothed cardinalfish
  • Lavender Tang
  • Leaf Scorpionfish
  • Leopard puffer
  • Leopard shark
  • Linguado
  • Lionfish
  • Longfin Fairy Wrasse
  • Lyretail Hogfish
  • Magpie Sweetlips
  • Malcolor Snapper
  • Manybar goatfish
  • Map angel
  • Map Puffer
  • Miniata Grouper
  • Monkeyface eel
  • Multicolor Angelfish
  • Naso Tang
  • Neon Goby
  • Nurse Shark
  • Ocean surgeon
  • Ocellated butterfly
  • Okinawa chromis
  • Orange Skunk
  • Orange Back Fairy Wrasse
  • Orbic batfish
  • Oriental Dogfish
  • Pacific Blue Tang
  • Paddle wrasse
  • Painted frogfish
  • Pajama Cardinalfish
  • Palette tang
  • Panda puffer
  • Panther Grouper
  • Parrotfish
  • Passer Angelfish
  • Peacock Flounder
  • Pearl damsel
  • Pearly jawfish
  • Pebble butterfly
  • Percula Clownfish
  • Picasso Triggerfish
  • Pineapple Fish
  • Pinktail Triggerfish
  • Pinnate Batfish
  • Pipefish
  • Pixy hawkfish
  • Porcupine Puffer
  • Porkfish
  • Princess Parrotfish
  • Purple Tang
  • Purple Tilefish
  • Pygmy Yellowtail Angelfish
  • Pyramid butterfly
  • Queen Triggerfish
  • Rabbitfish
  • Radiant Wrasse
  • Randall's Shrimp Goby
  • Red cardinal
  • Red Coris
  • Red Sea mimic blenny
  • Red spotted grouper
  • Red spotted hawkfish
  • Redstripe tilefish
  • Regal Angelfish
  • Reticulated Damselfish
  • Rhinecanthus cinereus
  • Ribbon Eel
  • Rogue Fish
  • Rusty Angelfish
  • Saddled Toby
  • Sailfin Tang
  • Sargassum Fish
  • Scott's Fairy Wrasse
  • Scribbled Angelfish
  • Scythe trigger
  • Sea pony
  • Sebae Clownfish
  • Short Bigeye
  • Silver chromis
  • Shovelnose Shark
  • Sixbar wrasse
  • Spot tail dartfish
  • Spotfin lionfish
  • Spotted oceanic triggerfish
  • Squareback Anthias
  • Starfish
  • Starck's damsel
  • Starry Puffer
  • Stone triggerfish
  • Striated frogfish
  • Striated surgeonfish
  • Striped Fang Blenny
  • Swissguard Basslet
  • Tahitian Butterflyfish
  • Talbots blenny
  • Teardrop Butterflyfish
  • Threadfin Snapper
  • Tibicin angelfish
  • Tobacco Basslet
  • Tomato clown
  • Tomini Bristletooth Tang
  • Two Barred Rabbitfish
  • Two eyed coralfish
  • Two spot surgeonfish
  • Two striped Sweetlips
  • Undulate Triggerfish
  • Unicorn tang
  • Urchin Clingfish
  • Vagabond Butterflyfish
  • Valentine puffer
  • Vermiculated angelfish
  • Volitan's Lionfish
  • Wartskin Frogfish
  • Watanabe's Angelfish
  • Wedge-tail triggerfish
  • White-tailed Remora
  • Wolf Cardinalfish
  • Wolf eel
  • Whales
  • Whale Sharks
  • Yellow anthias
  • Yellow Assessor Basslet
  • Yellow banded fairy wrasse
  • Yellow boxfish
  • Yellow fin tang
  • Yellow goby
  • Yellow Headed Angelfish
  • Yellow Prow Goby
  • Yellow spotted anthias
  • Yellow stingray
  • Yellow tail wrasse
  • Yellow Watchman Goby
  • Yellow watchmann goby
  • Yellow back butterfly
  • Yellow fin fairy wrasse
  • Yellow fin flasher
  • Yellow head Jawfish
  • Yellow head sleeper goby
  • Yellow head wrasse
  • Yellow headed Sleeper Goby
  • Yellow margin moray
  • Yellow margin triggerfish
  • Yellow saddle Goatfish
  • Yellow spotted triggerfish
  • Yellow spotted Wrasse
  • Yellow streaked Fairy Wrasse
  • Yellow striped cardinalfish
  • Yellow tail Blue Damsel
  • Yellow tail Goldie/Evansi Anthias
  • Yellow tail surgeonfish
  • Yellow tail tang
  • Yellow tail Wrasse
  • Zebra Barred Dartfish
  • Zebra goby
  • Zebra lionfish
  • Zebra Moray Eel
Tropical Fish

Tropical fish require a warm, medium temperature to live. They include both freshwater and saltwater fish species. They are popular aquarium fish because of their bright coloration. Following are some of the types of tropical fish:

Angelfish
  • Zebra Long Fin
  • Black Marble Long Fin
Aulonocara/Nimbo/Placi
  • Red dragon
  • New Aulonocara Calico
  • Aulonocara sp. Fire Fish
  • Nimbochromis venustus
  • Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus
Aggressive Characins
  • Oligosarcus hepsetus
  • Cynopoptamus atratoensis
  • Amazon River Salmon
  • Hollandi pirahna
  • Piraya Pirahna
Anabatoids
  • Giant Betta Platak
  • Pink Kissing Gourami
  • Thick Lip Gourami
  • Opaline Gouarmi
  • Lavender Gourami
  • Gold Gourami
  • Orange Thick Lips
Barbs
  • Green Mascara Barbs
  • Bangana behri
  • Wild Rose Line Sharks
  • Longfin Rosy Barbs
  • Black Ruby Barbs
  • Albino Tiger Barbs
  • Green Tiger Barbs
  • Striped Barbs
  • Odessa Barbs
  • Pentazona Barb
  • Tiger Barbs
  • Super Black Ruby Diamond Barbs
  • Jumbo Cherry Barbs
  • Panda Barbs
  • Golden Fire Diamond Barb
Catfish
  • Otocinclus
  • Burma Orange Panda Cats
  • Sturiosoma feurschi
  • Tiffiny Whips
  • Red Whips
  • Amber Glass Cats
  • True Glass Cats
  • Synodontis nigriventris zebra
  • Indian Gulper Cat
  • Calicthy Calicthys
  • Hassar notospilus
  • Ompok
  • Tiger Shovelnose
  • Debawi Cats
Characins
  • Nannostomus trifasciatus red III
  • Beckfordi
  • Leporinus octofasciatum
  • Chalceus pink tail
Cichlids
  • Eurobred Geophagus Suriamensis
  • Severum Spotted
  • Severum Gold
  • Wild Festivums
  • New Galaxy Blue Jack Dempsey
  • Azureus Firemouths
  • Ellioti Firemouths
  • Helleri Firemouths
  • Heros efasciatus rotkeil
  • Wild Geophagus Tapajos Red
  • Eurobred Rio Negro
  • Haplochromis Hot Rock Kribensis
  • Heros appendiculatus
  • Geophagus Sp. Altamira
  • Eurobred Geophagus Proximus
  • Wild Satanoperca leucosticta
Crustacea
  • Bamboo Shrimps
  • New Shrimps from Celebes
  • White Spot Red Bee
  • Six Banded Blue Bee
  • Red Orchid Bee
  • Yellow Cheek Bee
  • Mini Blue Bee
  • Caridina spongicola
Corydoras
  • Bronze
  • Albino Paleatus
  • Incolicana
  • Robustrus
  • Arcuatus Super
  • Delphax
  • Haroldshultzi
  • Sterbai
  • Punctatus
  • Schwartzi
  • Brochis splendens
  • Brochis multiradiatus
  • Metae
Danios
  • Zebra
  • Blue Bengal
  • Burmese Fire Ring
  • Marbled Moustache Danio
  • Moustache Danio
  • Giraffe Danio
  • Burma Blue Ring Danio
  • Emperor Minnows
Guppies
  • Assorted ribbons
  • Metallic Blue Ribbons
  • Solid Purple
  • Metallic Blue
  • Blue Varigated
  • Red Varigated
  • Green Varigated
  • Red Tailed Neon
Killifish
  • Cubanicthys pengelleri
Loaches
  • New Emperor Loaches
  • New Dragon Loach
  • New Sumo Loach
  • Golden Dario
  • Striata
  • Sid thiumunki Loach
  • Burmese Polkadot Loach
  • Burmese Marbled Loach
  • Gecko Loach (Homaloptera)
  • Golden Loach
  • Rostrata
  • Sucking Loach
  • Golden Sucking Loach
  • Pennocki Algae Eaters
  • Zebra Cold
  • Marble Cold
  • Butterfly
  • Clown Loach
Malawi
  • Mbuna
  • Cynotilapia afra cobalt
  • Labidochromis caereuleus gold
  • Labeotropheus trewevassae chilumba
  • Microchromis zebroides
  • Pseudotropheus callainos white neon/blue light
  • Pseudotropheus Cobalt
  • Pseudotropheus tropheops albino apricot
  • Pseudotropheus sp. Ndumbi Red Top
  • Pseudotropheus Zebra
  • Pseudotropheus Elongatus neon spot
  • Pseudotropheus Salousi coral
  • Pseudotropheus acei yellow
Mollies
  • Black
  • Black Lyretail
  • Polka-dot
  • Black and Gold
  • Blue Limia
  • Cuban Humpback Limia
  • New Salvador Molly
  • Red Faced Black Coral Platy
  • New Bleeding Heart Wagtail
Rainbows
  • Red Rainbow Bosemani
  • Lacustris
  • Praecox
  • Trifasciatus
Rasbora
  • Euro Harlequins
  • Eurobred Black Harlequins
  • Copper Harlequins (R. Hengeli)
  • Sawba Resplendens
SharksSnakeheads
  • New Burmese Ornate Snakeheads
  • New Channa sp.
  • Black and Green (Channa Aurantimaculatus)
  • Rainbow
  • New Green
Swordtails
  • Koi Swords
  • Utsuri Swords
  • Red Wag
  • Guntheri
  • Pineapple Guntheri
Tanganika
  • Altrolamprologus calvus kapamba
  • Altrolamprologus compressiceps gold
  • Petrotilapia trewevasse
  • Elipsifer Eels
  • Synodontis multipunctatus wild
  • Petricolor Zaire bred
  • Poll wild
  • Petricolor wild
Tetra
  • Wild New Red Cherry Congos
  • Euro Coffee Bean Tetra
  • Emperor Tetra
  • Eurobred Cardinal Tetra
  • Eurobred Candy Glow Golden Cardinals
  • Diamond Bleeding Hearts
  • Eurobred Diamond Neon Tetra
  • Eurobred Glass Bloodfin
  • Eurobred Black Neons
  • Eurobred Lemon Tetra
  • Eurobred Sweglesi Phantoms
  • Eurobred Diamond Tetra
  • Eurobred White Widows
  • Eurobred Ornate Tetra
  • Eurobred Super Red Serpae
  • Eurobred Jumbo Congo
  • Eurobred Silvertips
  • Eurobred Kerri Tetra
  • Eurobred Majenta Kerri Tetra
  • Eurobred Green Neons
  • Eurobred Rummynose (Rhodostomus)
  • Eurobred Ember Tetra
  • Eurobred Red Eyed Tetra
  • Eurobred Black Phantom Tetra
  • Eurobred White Fin Ornate Tetra
  • Eurobred Penguin Tetra
  • Eurobred Albino Congo Tetra
  • New Peru Blue Tetra
Randoms
  • Flying Fish
  • New Purple Mussels
  • New Pink Mussels
  • New Green Mussels
  • New Razor Mussels
  • New Golden Mussels
  • Black Ghost Knife Fish
  • Fire Eels
  • Congo Frogs
  • Pipa pipa Suriname Toad
  • Algae Shrimp
  • Polypterus ornatipinnis
  • Polypterus seneqalis albino
  • Pstacus Amazon Puffers
  • Japonica Algae Shrimp
  • New Cherry Algae Shrimp
  • Puffer fish
  • Topaz Puffers
  • Hairy Puffers
  • Endlecheri
  • Platinum Arowana
  • Australian Pearl Arowana
  • Golden Freshwater Archer Fish
  • S Panda Garra
  • Panda Garra
  • Burmese Ugly Faced Garra
  • Siamese Flying Fox
  • Yellow Panchax
  • Zebra Snail
  • Spotted Snail
  • Dageti monroviae panchax
Besides these types, there are a number of species of fish that can be kept in an aquarium. These include freshwater aquarium fish as well as marine aquarium fish. Some of the aquarium fish are angelfish, anthias, batfish, blennies, bass & groupers, boxfish, butterflyfish, catfish, cichlids, chromis, damsels, lionfish, loaches, pufferfish, rabbitfish, sharks, spiny eels, tilefish, etc. In addition, there are certain fish, which mature in saltwater but migrate to freshwater for breeding. Such fish are known as migratory fish, which include eels, salmons, shads, smelts, rockfish, sturgeons, etc.

By Reshma Jirage
Published: 10/11/2008
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