WikiProject Fishes aims to help organise our rapidly growing collection of articles about fish taxa. Issues outside the scope of this WikiProject include fishkeeping (fish aquarium topics), fishing, fisheries, fish cuisine topics, fish farm topics, fish market topics, fish processing topics, fish product sales topics, fish products topics, and fish trap topics.
At the end of September 2015, there were 21,004 articles within the project's scope. During September 2015, the most popular 500 articles received 3,244,744 views, averaging 107,913 views per day.
Contents
- 1 Related WikiProjects
- 2 Associated Portal
- 3 Participants
- 4 Structure and criteria for inclusion
- 5 Fish names and article titles
- 6 Taxonomy
- 7 Categorization
- 8 Article format
- 9 Fish-related templates and categories
- 10 Article assessment
- 11 Article alerts
- 12 Article traffic
- 13 Collaboration
- 14 Peer Review
- 15 Tasklist
- 16 Automated list of featured and good articles
Related WikiProjects
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life:
- WikiProject Science.
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Fishes
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
It is the parent project of:
It is worth keeping one eye on several Wikiprojects that overlap with this one, including:
- WikiProject Cephalopods
- WikiProject Cetaceans
- WikiProject Conservation worldwide
- WikiProject Ecoregions
- WikiProject Marine life
Associated Portal
The Fish Portal is the associated portal of WikiProject Fishes.
Participants
- For recruiting additional members, see users associating themselves with fish.
- Alexander_ktn (talk · contribs) - trying to destub a few marine articles.
- Antarctic-adventurer (talk · contribs) - any but has a fondness for tropical reef fish
- Bruinfan12 (talk · contribs) - Seahorses and pipefish, et al.
- Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs)
- Cynops3 (talk · contribs)
- Daniel Mietchen (talk · contribs) - mainly images and references
- Dmanrulz180 (talk · contribs) Im a student in AP Bio working on the article for spot croaker as well as Gambusia affinis
- Eliezg (talk · contribs) - has a particular fondness for sturgeon
- ENeville (talk · contribs)
- Ejakeh7 (talk · contribs) - Developed articles about species of different fish and created other fish articles including Apogon maculatus, Apogon trimaculatus ,and Apogon parvulus
- Electriccatfish2 (talk · contribs) Mainly focused on Electric fish.
- Enlil Ninlil (talk · contribs)
- Epipelagic (talk · contribs) – I've developed many articles for this project, mostly about fish types, habitats and ecology or related to fisheries.
- Esoxid (talk · contribs) (Created 2 fish articles before signing up here. Black scabbardfish and Amphiprion akallopisos)
- Fastily (talk · contribs)
- Gihan Jayaweera (talk · contribs) - Endemic and common freshwater and marine fish in Sri Lanka
- Ginkgo100 (talk · contribs)
- Hethokrilliondata (talk · contribs)
- Innotata (talk · contribs)
- Intelligentsium (talk · contribs) I have written several articles about fish. My focus is generally vertebrate animals.
- JackFrost2121 (talk · contribs) I have created 3 fish related articles such as Great northern tilefish.
- Jnpet (talk · contribs)
- Jourdy288 (talk · contribs)
- Jule Firework (talk · contribs) A dwarf pufferfish enthusiast. On the hunt for kuhli loaches now.
- Kare Kare (talk · contribs)
- Killidude (talk · contribs)
- KittyKat (talk · contribs)
- Knight of Gloucestershire (talk · contribs) I like fish. They're fascinating and it's lovely to know more about them init?
- KnowledgeRequire (talk · contribs) Writing Articles
- KokiHaps (talk · contribs) I am active in the German Wikipedia section as well as in Wikispecies under the Username 'Haps' (which is in other Wikipedia languages unfortunately occupied by other users)
- Kraftlos (talk · contribs)
- Kyknos (talk · contribs) - mainly focused on labyrinth fishes, snakeheads, blackwater species and fishkeeping in general
- Lerdsuwa (talk · contribs)
- lfstevens (talk · contribs)
- Liopleurodon93 (talk · contribs)
- ManfromButtonwillow (talk · contribs) Been editing/creating smelt articles, as that is the sort of fish I am most interested in, for some reason.
- Mark Chung (talk · contribs)
- Melanochromis (talk · contribs)
- Micromesistius (talk · contribs)
- MidgleyDJ (talk · contribs)
- Mitternacht90 (talk · contribs)
- Nick Thorne (talk · contribs)
- pacman451 (talk · contribs) i'd love to help
- Palaxzorodice (talk · contribs) Betta fish lover, mostly contribute on Betta-related articles, aim to improve Betta articles to be good or featured articles.
- Philip Mark Green (talk · contribs) Passionate about Zambian fish and would like to start contributing.
- Plantdrew (talk · contribs)
- Pteronura brasiliensis (talk · contribs) I got interested in this sort of thing for the Fish Quiz itself I am willing and ready to help!
- Renice (talk · contribs)
- Rex shock (talk · contribs)
- Richard Barlow (talk · contribs) (been adding a few articles, thought I'd make myself known)
- Rlendog (talk · contribs)
- Ryan shell (talk · contribs) (ive created 12 articles for this project, but i just realised i didnot sign the project page)
- Sablegsd (talk · contribs) I am passionate about Hydrocynus and take an intense personal interest in that genus and the five species contained therein. As of the time of this writing, I own two species.
- Shrumster (talk · contribs)
- Support.and.Defend (talk · contribs)
- Stanfordbound 14 (talk · contribs) I am a student working as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2011 and am doing an article on the Bluespotted stingray any assistance/collaboration would be highly valued.
- Stan Shebs (talk · contribs)
- Stefan (talk · contribs)
- TeaDrinker (talk · contribs)
- Tkinias (talk · contribs)
- Ugen64 (talk · contribs)
- Wilhelmina Will (talk · contribs) I've recently created many fish species articles, and a genus article, and am interested in creating many more.
- Ykvach (talk · contribs) - Yuriy Kvach
- Ensignricky (talk · contribs) I try to add more to fish articles that are stubs
- Mike Cline (talk · contribs) Interested in expanding and improving all articles on North American Salmonidae
- Jokrez (talk · contribs) I hate fish stubs, so I make them bigger
- Melanostomias (talk · contribs) - Randal Singer - fish taxonomist (deep sea and Asian freshwater) and natural history museum enthusiast
Other participants
See Category:WikiProject Fishes participants for participants who have associated themselves with the project using the {{User WPFishes}} or {{User WPFishes2}} userboxes.
Inactive
- Axlq (talk · contribs)
- Bu b0y2007 (talk · contribs)
- Chris huh (talk · contribs)
- Demi (talk · contribs)
- Dwmartin (talk · contribs)
- Fluri (talk · contribs)
- Grander13 (talk · contribs) I am starting to work on the article Atlantic blue marlin
- Jamie C (talk · contribs)
- Jimbobalina2005 (talk · contribs)
- Kamerad (talk · contribs)
- Kid Jack (talk · contribs) Now Kid Jack. I forgot my password as Josen
- L'Aquatique (talk · contribs)
- Lethargy (talk · contribs)
- MiltonT (talk · contribs)
- Mosasaurus (talk · contribs)
- Nilheda (talk · contribs)
- Nwmountaintroll (talk · contribs)
- Oneelephantpickle (talk · contribs)
- Paulpro (talk · contribs)
- Paleodude (talk · contribs)
- Photo2222 (talk · contribs)
- Pier Snake (talk · contribs) (Monkey Who Eats Pirannas)
- Ram-Man (talk · contribs)
- Smcskim (talk · contribs) 07:21, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- Terrapin83 (talk · contribs)
- Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 03:18, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Structure and criteria for inclusion
Articles should normally be about particular taxa. For example:
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Order: Catfish, Cypriniformes
- Family: Gourami, Centrarchidae
- Genus: Black bass, Lepomis
- Species: Largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides
If a family has only a single genus, the family name should redirect to the article on the genus (e.g., Elassomatidae). If a genus has only a single species, the generic name should redirect to the species (e.g., Centrarchus).
When a genus contains only a small number of similar species, the articles may be combined with the article on the genus (e.g., Crappie, which includes the white crappie, Pomoxis annularis, and the black crappie, P. nigromaculatus.)
Also see the lists at Tkinias/Fish, Gæa/Fishes, SpeciesFishes1, SpeciesFishes2, SpeciesFishes3, and MarineFishList
WikiProject Fishes categories
Fish names and article titles
Common names
Common names should be written in sentence case rather than title case, following normal English usage and that of FishBase. (This contrasts with WikiProject Birds, which follows the practice in many ornithology journals of using title case for bird common names.) Use, for example, "largemouth bass", not "Largemouth Bass". Place names or personal names that form part of a common name remain capitalized, hence "Guadalupe bass" (in reference to the Guadalupe River) or "White Cloud Mountain minnow" (in reference to White Cloud Mountain in China).
Systematic names
- Use systematic or "scientific" names according to established biological usage.
- Capitalize but do not italicize names of taxa higher than genus, e.g., the family Exocoetidae.
- Capitalize and italicize generic names, e.g., Xiphophorus.
- Italicize but do not capitalize specific epithets.
- Refer to species using full names, e.g., Xiphophorus hellerii or X. hellerii but not hellerii.
- Neither italicize nor capitalize anglicizations of systematic names, e.g., "the pumpkinseed is a perciform fish".
Article titles
Article naming for fishes differs, as detailed below, from Naming conventions (fauna).
Use the common name for any species that satisfies at least one of the following criteria:
- 1(i) The species has a single common name that is widely used and never used for any other species. While the species in question may have additional common names, those names are rarely used. Example: Greenland halibut.
- 1(ii) The species has a widely recognised common name that is so rarely applied to other species that confusion as to the subject of the article is unlikely to arise. Example: Guppy.
- 1(iii) Within the area where the species is endemic and/or of commercial importance, only a single common name is used by the relevant legal, conservation, fisheries or local institutions, even though other common names may exist. Example: Atlantic salmon.
- 1(iv) The species has a common name that is normally separated from similar common names by use of geographical, descriptive, or other modifications to those names. Once differentiated, these names satisfy criteria i, ii, or iii above. Examples: Shovelnose sturgeon, Little shovelnose sturgeon, False shovelnose sturgeon.
Use the Latin name for any species that fails to satisfy criteria 1(i) to 1(iv), including such situations as the following:
- 2(i) The same common name is regularly applied to multiple species. Example: Green spotted puffer.
- 2(ii) There is no single common name used for the species. Example: Black widow tetra (a.k.a. Black tetra, Petticoat tetra).
- 2(iii) The species has different common names in different English-speaking countries. Example: Plec (UK), pleco (US).
- 2(iv) The species simply has no widely used common name. Example: Dermogenys sumatrana.
Guidelines
- Regardless of the title used, articles should include the scientific name in italics and all significant English common names in bold in the first paragraph (and preferably the first sentence).
- The first paragraph should differentiate the fish from other species with which it might be confused. This may be done by explaining the ambiguity, with links to other fish (e.g., at tilapia), or by mentioning geographical distribution, for example:
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- The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as the millionsfish, is a small fresh and brackish water fish from Central America.
- Disambiguate species that might be confused by using a disambiguation hatnote (e.g., at freshwater hatchetfish). A simple form of disambiguation hatnote is:
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- This article is about the <put text>; for the <put text> see <put link>.
- Create a disambiguation page when the ambiguity involves many fish and a hatnote would be too long. Example: Tigerfish.
- Before renaming articles, discuss the reasons for doing so on the Talk page. In cases of disputed naming, where a consensus cannot be reached on the article's Talk page, the matter should be discussed at WikiProject Fishes to allow a consensus decision to be reached.
Regional lists of species
Lists of fish species should follow the form: List of fishes of <Region>. The definite article may be needed for the name of some regions. Note that "List of fish of ..." is incorrect when dealing with a list of the species.
Higher taxa
Articles on taxa above species should be titled using the common name, if one exists and is unambiguous. Otherwise, the scientific epithet should be used. When FishBase or other references give a common name of "xes and ys" or "xes or ys" for a higher taxon, the scientific epithet (possibly anglicized) should be used for the article title.
Articles on taxa above the generic level should be titled with the Latin form of the name and not the anglicization, e.g. Cyprinidae not cyprinid, and Perciformes not perciform. The anglicizations may be freely used in article text however.
Taxonomy
Taxonomy at the level of genera and species should follow FishBase. Higher-level classification should follow the 2006 fourth edition of Joseph Nelson's Fishes of the World, for consistence. If applicable, disputes in classification should be noted in article text.
- Note: When listing the species authority (the author(s) who originally named the species or subspecies of interest), in the taxobox or elsewhere, parentheses matter. For example, "Foogenus fishii Smith, 1900" has a subtly different meaning than "Foogenus fishii (Smith, 1900)". Parentheses indicate that Smith originally placed fishii in a different genus, and the species was subsequently placed in Foogenus. See more at Binomial nomenclature and Template:Taxobox#Authorities (Animalia usage).
Categorization
Wikipedia categories should be created for well-known families, using the plural of the common name of the family (Category:Sunfishes or Category:Cyprinids), and for orders, using the common name (e.g., Category:Catfishes) or the scientific epithet (e.g., Category:Cyprinodontiformes). For very small families (e.g., the pygmy sunfishes), only the order category may be used, but usage must be consistent among members of a family.
Article format
Taxoboxes
Warmouth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Centrarchidae |
Genus: | Lepomis |
Species: | L. gulosus |
Binomial name | |
Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier, 1829) |
All articles on taxa should have taxoboxes (constructed using the taxobox template, not built from scratch) including kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. The new taxa above class should not be indicated, since they can be found elsewhere in Wikipedia. Taxa between class and order should not be used, since they are unstable and can be found in the class and order articles. For large taxa, intermediate classifications may be indicated in the taxobox. For example, Perciformes should indicate their suborder and (if one exists) superfamily, and members of large families should indicate subfamilies. All members of a taxon should, however, be consistent in the usage of intermediate classifications.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage for the full details of taxobox construction.
An example taxobox, for the warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), is given at right. Note that the specific name is L. gulosus, not simply gulosus, and that the generic name is not bolded, since the article is not about the entire genus Lepomis.
Images
An image should be included in the taxobox if an appropriate one is available.
Higher taxa should use images reflecting their types, if possible. For example, Lepomis uses an image of L. auritus, the redbreast sunfish, which is the type species of the genus, while Centrarchidae uses an image of Centrarchus macropterus, the flier, which is the type (and only) species of Centrarchus, the type genus of Centrarchidae.
The taxobox image should ideally picture a single fish, facing left, in a horizontal orientation, cropped to 20 percent of the fish's length around the fish's body, and should be 250 pixels wide. (The image should not be resized manually; the full-size image should be uploaded and markup used to create the 250px image. Note that very large images may be resized before upload so that they will fit in a normal browser window when enlarged.) For articles long enough to warrant inclusion of additional images, these may be placed as thumbnails in the article body, ideally showing the fish in its native environment.
Note that images of fishes which do not possess right-left symmetry should not be flipped to obtain a left-facing fish; doing so would, for example, convert a righteye flounder into a lefteye flounder.
Text captions should not be used on taxobox images in species articles, but in articles on higher taxa, the article caption should indicate the species pictured (if known), in the format "[[Common name]] (''Genus species'')". If the species depicted is not known, the caption should identify the fish as closely as possible, as in "Pygmy sunfish (Elassoma sp.)"
It is always beneficial to have a picture that communicates a sense of scale. This can be achieved by
- placing standard sized physical objects next to the fish (human hand or body, tape measure, etc.), before taking the photo. Sometimes the background scenery will already do the job.
- painting a measuring scale into an existing image, if you know its exact scale (that's not the same as knowing the average size of the species, btw).
- painting a reference shape (human silhouette, etc.) into the picture, if your idea about the scale is less accurate.
- painting a measuring scale is highly unscientific if it is based on nothing but a guess. In this case you should use the image as it is!
Anyway, any image is better than no image - esp. if you have only third party material available, or if you don't want to get the animal out of its living environment.
Introduction
The first paragraph should give the common and systematic names of the taxon featured in the article, as well as some information about its classification. Species articles should follow the form:
- The foofish (Barus foous) is a species of freshwater fish in the baz family (family Bazidae) of order Quuxiformes. It is native to the Big River basin in Ruritania.
Higher order articles should follow the form:
- Barus is a genus of freshwater fish in the baz family (family Bazidae) of order Quuxiformes. The type species is the common barfish (B. vulgaris), and fishes of this genus are known as the barfishes.
Succeeding paragraphs should give, in order (omitting paragraphs for which no information is available):
- Description, including size, weight, and age data from FishBase
- Taxonomy (includes classification, evolution, subspecies, etymology of name (especially for genus names, which FishBase normally provides), alternate common names, important binomial synonyms, etc.
- Distribution and habitat
- Feeding, diet, and related information
- Reproduction (life-cycle, breeding, etc.)
- Importance to humans (aquarium fish, game fish, commercial fishing, research uses, etc.)
- Conservation status (if not Secure) for species, including explanation for the classification, and mention of members classified as Vulnerable or worse for higher taxa
- Trivia (state fish, national emblem, ships bearing the name, other uses of the name, etc.)
Other sections
Information on keeping fish in an aquarium should be put in a section entitled "In the aquarium". Breeding and dietary information pertaining to captive fish should go here, rather than in the main section, which should refer primarily to the fish in its natural habitat.
Other sections may address topics of interest warranting discussion longer than a brief paragraph.
References
Every article should include a section entitled "References", with a bullet-list of sources. Every article should include a citation there of the relevant entries in FishBase and, if possible, ITIS. It is not necessary to include Fishes of the World unless it has been used as a source for the article. Other sources for information in the article should be included, following normal citation format.
Templates exist for citing FishBase and ITIS, and these should be used.
FishBase
For a FishBase entry on an order, use:
- {{FishBase order | order = Bariformes | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For a FishBase entry on a family, use:
- {{FishBase family | family = Baridae | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For a FishBase entry on a genus, use:
- {{FishBase genus | genus = Barus | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For most FishBase entries on species, use:
- {{FishBase species | genus = Barus | species = foous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For most FishBase entries on subspecies, use:
- {{FishBase subspecies | genus = Barus | species = foous | subspecies = subfoous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For FishBase entries that are problematic for the above templates, get the numeric ID from their URL and use:
- {{FishBase species alt | ID = ???? | taxon = Barus foous foous | year = YYYY | month = Month}}
For all FishBase templates, year and month refer to the FishBase revision consulted, not the date on which you consulted FishBase; the revision can be found from the FishBase home page.
ITIS
For an ITIS entry, use:
- {{ITIS | ID = ????? | taxon = ''Barus foous'' | year = YYYY | date = DD Month}}
For the ITIS template, year and date refer to the date on which ITIS was consulted. Date can be in either U.S. or international format, as it will be wikified.
External links
Web sites or pages not used as sources for the article (except for FishBase and ITIS) should appear in a section entitled "External links" (using the plural even if only one link is present).
Talk pages
WikiProject Fishes' project banner is {{Fishproject}}. Please place at the top of an appropriate talk page. Placing the template on the talk page will help to direct editors to this WikiProject Fishes main page. This is how the template will look when it has been added:
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Stub templates
Remember to mark up stub articles with the appropriate stub template at the bottom of the article. This automatically adds it to the appropriate page and inserts the banners to the bottom of the page. These are the current stub templates:
The pages were counted on March 13, 2010.
* Stub templates with very few articles are often upmerged into a parent category. To propose a separate category, please visit Wikipedia:WSS/P.
Categories
Please make sure to add articles to the appropriate categories among the ones listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes/Categories. If there are any categories that you think should be created, please request them in the tasklist on this page or on the talk page.
In some cases, there might be more appropriate ways to group articles than categories, such as lists or article series boxes. For more information, see Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes.
Userboxes
{{User WPFishes}}
{{User WPFishes2}}
Userbox enthusiasts may want to add one of these userboxes to their userpage to show that they are members of this WikiProject, by adding {{User WPFishes}} or {{User WPFishes2}}. For more userboxes, see additional fish related userboxes.
Article assessment
See WikiProject Fishes/Assessment.
Article alerts
Notice: The RFD detection logic for Article Alerts has been tweaked. Report anything weird to WP:AALERTS/BUGS.
- Good article nominees
- 02 Feb 2016 – Stephanolepis cirrhifer (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Rcej (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jan 2016 – Teleost (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by LittleJerry (t · c); start
Article traffic
See WikiProject Fishes/Popular pages.
Collaboration
Pacific jack mackerel ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Since Image:Trachurus symmetricus baitball.jpg is the image used on the project banner, it is important that the article Pacific jack mackerel be improved. Please work together to imrove the pacific jack mackerel article.
Neon highfin barb ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- I originally nominated the article for deletion as original research. There seems to be some confusion with this article about whether it represents a distinct species and whether it's actually been scientifically described. It's been improved, but it'd be great if an expert would comment on the AfD, improve the article, or otherwise help us figure this one out. Graymornings(talk) 11:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Peer Review
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes/Peer review
Any fish article requiring a review may be placed here for review specifically by members of the wikiproject.
Tasklist
Automated list of featured and good articles
Featured articles
Good articles
- Abyssal plain
- Alligator gar
- Atlantic blue marlin
- Atlantic torpedo
- Australian blacktip shark
- Australian swellshark
- Australian weasel shark
- Banded archerfish
- Banded houndshark
- Barndoor skate
- Bigeye sand tiger
- Bignose shark
- Blackmouth catshark
- Blotchy swellshark
- Bluespotted ribbontail ray
- Bluespotted stingray
- Bluntnose stingray
- Borneo shark
- Bowfin
- Bowmouth guitarfish
- Bramble shark
- Cape Fear shiner
- Cloudy catshark
- Coffin ray
- Common stingray
- Common torpedo
- Convict cichlid
- Coral catshark
- Creek whaler
- Crossback stingaree
- Dark shyshark
- Deepwater stingray
- Diamond stingray
- Estuary stingray
- False catshark
- Finding Nemo
- Finless sleeper ray
- Fish
- Giant freshwater stingray
- Great northern tilefish
- Great white shark
- Halfbeak
- Hardnose shark
- Izak catshark
- Japanese angelshark
- Japanese sleeper ray
- Leopard catshark
- Longtail butterfly ray
- Mangrove whipray
- Marbled electric ray
- Megalodon
- Murray cod
- Nervous shark
- Nursehound
- Ocellated electric ray
- Onefin electric ray
- Pacific electric ray
- Paddlefish
- Pelagic stingray
- Pelvicachromis pulcher
- Peppered maskray
- Pink whipray
- Plain maskray
- Pondicherry shark
- Porcupine ray
- Prickly shark
- Puffadder shyshark
- Pyjama shark
- Quagga catshark
- Reticulate whipray
- Roughtail stingray
- Round ribbontail ray
- Sand devil
- Sand whiting
- Shark
- Sharptooth houndshark
- Short-tail stingray
- Sicklefin weasel shark
- Sixgill stingray
- Slender smooth-hound
- Smalltail shark
- Smoothtooth blacktip shark
- Southern black bream
- Sparsely-spotted stingaree
- Spinner shark
- Spotted eagle ray
- Tasmanian numbfish
- Tasselled wobbegong
- Tawny nurse shark
- Thornback guitarfish
- Tiger shark
- Tiger catshark
- Tiktaalik
- Toxotes chatareus
- Transitional fossil
- Velvet belly lanternshark
- Viper dogfish
- Whale shark
- Whiskery shark
- Winghead shark
- Yellow stingray
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- Acanthogobius flavimanus
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- Aeoliscus strigatus
- African pompano
- African sawtail catshark
- Alectis
- Alepes
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- Alligator pipefish
- Almaco jack
- Ambassis jacksoniensis
- Ambloplites
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- Amphiprion akindynos
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- Aquaculture of cobia
- Arabian carpetshark
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- Asterotrygon
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- Blacktip sawtail catshark
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- Blue trevally
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- Brown lanternshark
- Brown shyshark
- Brown stingaree
- Brown whipray
- Brownsnout spookfish
- Bubba (fish)
- Bumpnose trevally
- Bunocephalus
- Butler's frogfish
- Butterfly stingaree
- California lizardfish
- Cape Fear shiner
- Carangoides
- Caranx sansun
- Carpathian brook lamprey
- Caspian lamprey
- Cephalurus
- Cepola macrophthalma
- Cetopsis
- Chaetostoma microps
- Chameleon goby
- Chesterfield Island stingaree
- Chilean jack mackerel
- Chinese high fin banded shark
- Chinese stingray
- Chionodraco rastrospinosus
- Chromis nitida
- Chupare stingray
- Circular stingaree
- Cleftbelly trevally
- Cloudy catshark
- Coastal trevally
- Coastal fish
- Coastrange sculpin
- Colares stingray
- Common stingaree
- Common stingray
- Cook's swellshark
- Copadichromis borleyi
- Coral Sea stingaree
- Coral reef fish
- Coregonus hoyi
- Coreoleuciscus splendidus
- Cornish jack
- Coryphaenoides rupestris
- Cottonmouth jack
- Cottus girardi
- Jonathan Couch
- Cowtail stingray
- Crazy fish
- Crested bullhead shark
- Crossback stingaree
- Cryptoheros septemfasciatus
- Cui-ui
- Daisy stingray
- Danube bleak
- Dark shyshark
- Dash-and-dot goatfish
- Dasyatis acutirostra
- Dekeyseria
- Demersal fish
- Diamond darter
- Dipturus teevani
- Diversity of fish
- Doctorfish tang
- Dollfus' stargazer
- Dracula fish
- Draughtsboard shark
- Dwarf sawfish
- Dwarf black stingray
- Dwarf lanternshark
- Dwarf pygmy goby
- Dwarf sawtail catshark
- Easter Island butterflyfish
- Eastern school whiting
- Eastern shovelnose stingaree
- Echidna catenata
- Edaphodon
- Eigenmannia vicentespelaea
- Elacatinus
- Elacatinus chancei
- Elacatinus horsti
- Emmelichthyops atlanticus
- Empetrichthys latos
- Enneapterygius bahasa
- Entomocorus
- Epactionotus
- Estuary stingray
- Etheostoma variatum
- European flounder
- Exoglossum laurae
- Eyed flounder
- False scad
- False scorpionfish
- False stonefish
- Fenestraja plutonia
- Finless sleeper ray
- Fish development
- Fish diseases and parasites
- Fish egg fossil
- Flat needlefish
- Flying fox (fish)
- Forage fish
- Forcipiger longirostris
- Freshwater whipray
- Frogfish
- Galápagos catshark
- Gangetic whiting
- Garra barreimiae
- Giant electric ray
- Giant mottled eel
- Giant oceanic manta ray
- Giant stumptail stingray
- Gillellus inescatus
- Glanapteryginae
- Glandulocaudinae
- Glyptothorax kurdistanicus
- Graveldiver
- Great northern tilefish
- Green lanternshark
- Greenback stingaree
- Greeneye
- Grey triggerfish
- Groovebelly stingray
- Grunion
- Guachanche barracuda
- Gulf sturgeon
- Haemulon
- Halichoeres maculipinna
- Hallucinogenic fish
- Haploblepharus
- Haplochromis vonlinnei
- Haplophryne mollis
- Heliobatis
- Helogenes
- Hemiancistrus
- Herring scad
- Heterandria formosa
- Heterobranchus bidorsalis
- Hippocampinae
- Hippocampus kuda
- Holacanthus passer
- Honeycomb whipray
- Hoosier cavefish
- Horabagrus
- Horse-eye jack
- Hortle's whipray
- Houndfish
- Humpback smooth-hound
- Hypancistrus
- Hypophthalmus
- Hypseleotris compressa
- Ichthyoplankton
- Imposter trevally
- Indian threadfish
- Inimicus
- Inimicus filamentosus
- Ives Lake cisco
- Izu stingray
- Japanese bullhead shark
- Japanese lates
- Jenkins' whipray
- Jolthead porgy
- Kai stingaree
- Kapala stingaree
- Keeltail needlefish
- Kessler's gudgeon
- King-of-the-salmon
- Knifetooth sawfish
- Knobbed porgy
- Laccognathus embryi
- Largetooth cookiecutter shark
- Lasiognathus
- Leopard catshark
- Leopard whipray
- Leopard-spotted swellshark
- Lepidotus
- Leporacanthicus
- Leporinus fasciatus
- Leuresthes tenuis
- Lined topminnow
- Liopropoma santi
- Liparis fabricii
- List of fish of Hawaii
- List of threatened rays
- List of threatened sharks
- Little skate
- Littlehead porgy
- Lizard catshark
- Lobed stingaree
- Lollipop catshark
- Longcomb sawfish
- Longfin crevalle jack
- Longfin trevally
- Longhead catshark
- Longnose stingray
- Longnose trevally
- Longtail stingray
- Lookdown
- Lost River sucker
- Louisiana pancake batfish
- Lumpsucker
- Lythrurus ardens
- Mackerel
- Mackerel scad
- Macrourus berglax
- Magosternarchus
- Malabar trevally
- Mangrove whipray
- Marbled whipray
- Margariscus
- Marlin sucker
- Masked stingaree
- Mastacembelus ellipsifer
- Mekong freshwater stingray
- Melanotaenia fluviatilis
- Menticirrhus americanus
- Menticirrhus saxatilis
- Mexican native trout
- Micromyzon akamai
- Mimagoniates microlepis
- Mirrorwing flyingfish
- Mitotic stingaree
- Mobula kuhlii
- Mobula munkiana
- Mogurnda adspersa
- Monacanthus chinensis
- Monacanthus ciliatus
- Monocentridae
- Mormyrinae
- Mottled skate
- Mylossoma duriventre
- Nanocetorhinus
- Naso vlamingii
- Natal shyshark
- Neocyema
- New Caledonian stingaree
- New Ireland stingaree
- Niger stingray
- Nocomis platyrhynchus
- Northern sennet
- Northern whiting
- Novaculichthys taeniourus
- Nursehound
- Orange-spotted trevally
- Oreochromis aureus
- Ossubtus xinguense
- Ouachita madtom
- Oval electric ray
- Owens pupfish
- Oxyurichthys microlepis
- Ozichthys
- Pacific crevalle jack
- Pacific chupare
- Pacific herring
- Pacific leaping blenny
- Pacific ocean perch
- Pacu
- Pain in fish
- Pale-edged stingray
- Paleopsephurus
- Parapercis alboguttata
- Parapercis hexophtalma
- Parapterois
- Pareuchiloglanis
- Pariosternarchus amazonensis
- Patchwork stingaree
- Peacock flounder
- Pearl stingray
- Pebbled butterflyfish
- Pelagic fish
- Pennant coralfish
- Peppered catshark
- Peppered moray eel
- Percina roanoka
- Permit (fish)
- Philypnodon grandiceps
- Philypnodon macrostomus
- Phreatobius cisternarum
- Viktor Pietschmann
- Pimelodus pictus
- Pincushion ray
- Pineapplefish
- Pinhead pearlfish
- Pinirampus pirinampu
- Pink salmon
- Pitted stingray
- Platax
- Plate fish
- Pluma porgy
- Poeciliopsis lucida
- Poeciliopsis monacha
- Poeciliopsis prolifica
- Pomacanthus semicirculatus
- Pomacanthus xanthometopon
- Pondicherry shark
- Porbeagle
- Porcupine ray
- Prietella
- Prognathodes aculeatus
- Protemblemaria perla
- Pseudolithoxus
- Pseudomugil gertrudae
- Pseudomugil mellis
- Pseudomugil signifer
- Psychedelic frogfish
- Puffadder shyshark
- Pygmy ribbontail catshark
- Pygmy seahorse
- Pygmy whitefish
- Pyjama shark
- Rainbow runner
- Rainbow shark
- Raja texana
- Rajiformes
- Razorbelly scad
- Red stingray
- Sicyopterus lagocephalus
- Red-lined wrasse
- Redeye gaper
- Redside dace
- Redtail splitfin
- Rendahl's messmate
- Reticulate whipray
- Retroculus lapidifer
- Rhinesomus
- Rhynchactis
- Robust redhorse
- Romanogobio uranoscopus
- Roughnose stingray
- Roughtail stingray
- Round fantail stingray
- Round ribbontail ray
- Round scad
- Sabertooth fish
- Sacramento splittail
- Saddled swellshark
- Salmon run
- Sand steenbras
- Sandyback stingaree
- Santanichthys
- Sarcoglanidinae
- Sargassum fish
- Saucereye porgy
- Scaly dragonfish
- Scarus globiceps
- Seaweed blenny
- Serpula
- Shadow trevally
- Shagreen ray
- Shark meat
- Shark threat display
- Sharpnose shiner
- Sharpsnout stingray
- Sharptail mola
- Sheepshead minnow
- Shoaling and schooling
- Short-tail stingray
- Shortnose sturgeon
- Shrimp scad
- Siganus doliatus
- Silky shark
- Sillago
- Silver pearlfish
- Slender catshark
- Small-eyed whiting
- Small-scale whiting
- Smalleye stingray
- Smallmouth scad
- Smallscale archerfish
- Smooth lanternshark
- Smooth toadfish
- Snake mackerel
- Snakeskin gourami
- Snubnosed eel
- Soringa whiting
- Sorubim
- Southern African frilled shark
- Southern black bream
- Southern sennet
- Sparsely-spotted stingaree
- Spawn (biology)
- Spearfish remora
- Speckled smooth-hound
- Speckled swellshark
- Spicara maena
- Spicara smaris
- Spined loach
- Spinner shark
- Spiny butterfly ray
- Spotless smooth-hound
- Spottail pinfish
- Spotted houndshark
- Spotted stingaree
- Spotted swellshark
- Springer's sawtail catshark
- Star pearlfish
- Starry smooth-hound
- Stegastes leucostictus
- Steindachneridion
- Steinitz' prawn goby
- Stephanolepis cirrhifer
- Stephanolepis hispidus
- Sternarchogiton nattereri
- Stoplight loosejaw
- Stout whiting
- Striped stingaree
- Surf bream
- Swellshark
- Symphurus thermophilus
- Synbranchus marmoratus
- Synodus intermedius
- Taillight shark
- Tawny nurse shark
- Tecopa pupfish
- Tembeassu marauna
- Teuthidodrilus
- Thaumatichthys
- Thelodonti
- Thoburnia rhothoeca
- Thorntail stingray
- Threadfin jack
- Torpedo scad
- Totoaba
- Toxotes chatareus
- Trachinotus goodei
- Trimma nasa
- Trimma tevegae
- Trypauchen vagina
- Tsunami fish
- Tubemouth whipray
- Typhleotris mararybe
- Unicorn crestfish
- Urolophidae
- Vadigo
- Velvet belly lanternshark
- Verlorenvlei redfin
- Violet goby
- Vision in fishes
- Walking fish
- Weberian apparatus
- Weedy scorpionfish
- West African catshark
- West coast seabream
- Western Atlantic seabream
- Western school whiting
- Western shovelnose stingaree
- White suckerfish
- White-edge freshwater whipray
- Whitecheek shark
- Whitefin trevally
- Whitefin dogfish
- Whitefin swellshark
- Wide stingaree
- Wimple piranha
- The world's 100 most threatened species
- Woundfin
- Yantai stingray
- Yellow shovelnose stingaree
- Yellowfin whiting
- Yellowhead wrasse
- Yellowspotted catshark
- Yellowspotted trevally
- Yellowtail scad
- Yellowtail trumpeter
- Zebrasoma scopas
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