List of Aquarium Fish Species by Common Name

An entire alphabetical itemizing of the entire fish species on the earth would have on the very least 30,000 objects, and individuals are merely the official saltwater and tropical fish names. Many fish—notably customary varieties for aquariums—even have any number of nicknames. As an illustration, the Corydoras metae, or bandit cory, can also be known as a bandit catfish, masked cory, Meta River catfish, and Rio Meta cory. The subsequent (partial) file of aquarium fish names comprises many of essentially the most well-liked ones, from A to Z.

A

• Adolfo’s cory
• Adonis tetra
• African peacock cichlid
• Angelfish

• Archerfish
• Atlantic mudskipper
• Auratus cichlid
• Australian rainbowfish
• Azureus cichlid

B

• Bandit cory
• Barb – gold
• Barb – rosy
• Barb – tiger
• Betta – female
• Betta – male
• Black-banded leporinus
• Black neon tetra
• Black phantom tetra
• Black skirt tetra
• Black widow tetra
• Blind cavefish
• Blood parrot cichlid

• Blue gourami – albino morph
• Blue gourami – cosby hybrid
• Blue gourami – standard shade
• Boeseman’s rainbowfish
• Bronze cory

C

• Cardinal tetra

• Catfish – the opposite manner up
• Cavefish – blind
• Cichlid – five-bar
• Cichlid – purple
• Cichlid – Six-bar
• Clown loach
• Cory – Bandit
• Cory – Bronze

D

• Danio – pearl
• Danio – zebra
• Debauwi catfish
• Deepwater haplochromis
• Denison’s flying fox
• Dojo loach
• Dovii loach
• Dragonfish
• Dusky piranha
• Dwarf croaking gourami
• Dwarf gourami
• Dwarf pencilfish
• Dwarf snakehead

E

• Eartheater
• Jap mudminnow
• Edible gourami
• Eduard’s mbuna
• Ell loach
• Egyptian mouthbrooder
• Eight-barb loach
• Electrical blue hap

• Electrical catfish
• Electrical yellow haplochromis
• Elegant rasbora
• Elephant-nose
• Emperor tetra

F

• Fairy cichlid
• False bumblebee catfish
• Fathead bichir
• Combating fish

• Decide eight puffer
• 5-bar cichlid
• 5-stripe lamprologus

G

• Gold barb
• Gourami – blue
• Gourami – dwarf
• Gourami – gold
• Gourami – kissing

• Gourami – leeri
• Gourami – marbeled
• Gourami – moonlight
• Gourami – opaline
• Gourami – pearl
• Gourami – three spot

H

• Haitian cichlid
• Half-lined pyrrhulina
• Hampala barb
• Harlequin rasbora

• Harlequin shark
• Harrison’s pencilfish
• Hatchetfish
• Heterotis bonytongue
• Hi there-fin banded shark

J

• Jack Dempsey cichlid
• Jae barb
• Jaguar catfish
• Jelly bean tetra
• Jewel cichlid

• Johanni mbuna cichlid
• Jordan’s catfish
• Leaping characin

Okay

• Kafirnigani gray loach
• Katangae Nile bichir
• Keyhole cichlid
• Kissing gourami
• Kribensis cichlid

L

• Labidochromis sp “Yellow” cichlid

• Lamprologus – five-stripe
• Lamprologus – six-stripe
• Leeri pearl gourami
• Leporinus – black-banded
• Loach – clown
• Loach – dojo
• Loach – local weather

M

• Marbled gourami
• Marigold lyretail swordtail
• Marigold wag swordtail
• Melanotaenia splendida tatei
• Moonlight gourami

N

• Nandus
• Needle fin eater
• Needlefish

• Neon tetra – black
• Nigerian crimson krib
• Nile puffer
• Nyerere’s Victoria cichlid

O

• Chubby syndontis
• Obliquidens hap
• Obscure snakehead
• Ocellated freshwater stingray
• Ocellated shell-dweller
• Ocellated synodontis
• Opaline gourami
• Oxeye herring
• Ozola barb

P

• Palembang puffer
• Papuan rainbowfish
• Parrot – blood
• Pearl danio
• Pearl gourami

• Platy – crimson wagtail
• Puffer – decide eight
• Purple cichlid

R

• Rainbowfish – Papuan
• Rasbora – crimson
• Pink eye tetra
• Pink rasbora
• Pink wagtail platy
• Rosy barb

S

• Schwanefeld’s barb
• Siamese stopping fish

• Silver dollar – Metynnis argenteus
• Six-bar cichlid
• Six-stripe lamprologus cichlid
• Swordtail – marigold lyertail
• Swordtail – marigold wag

T

• Tetra – black neon
• Tetra – black phantom
• Tetra – black skirt
• Tetra – black widow
• Tetra – cardinal
• Tetra – emperor

• Tetra – crimson eye
• Tetra – white skirt
• Three spot gourami
• Tiger barb

U

• Uaru cichlid
• Unicorn fish
• The mistaken manner up catfish

V

• Vampire pleco
• Variegated platy
• Variegated shark
• Venustus
• Violet goby

W

• Wallago catfish
• Warmouth
• Local weather fish
• Local weather loach
• West African bichir
• West Australian pygmy perch
• White skirt tetra
• Whiptailed banjo catfish

Y

• Yellow banded moenkhausia
• Yellow Julie cichlid
• Yellow king piranha
• Yellow kribensis
• Yellow lab
• Yellow regal peacock cichlid
• Yellow-finned xenotilapia
• Yellow-tailed conga tetra
• Yo-yo loach

Z

• Zebra danio