Common names
In this category, freshwater fish are classified by species group and by their common name. Some fish fall under more than one category. For example, a dwarf cichlid is also a cichlid and is included in both categories. Not all groups of fish species have a clearly defined common name.
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African Lungfishes (1)
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African Tetras (9)
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American soles (1)
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Angelfish (3)
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Archerfish (1)
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Armored Catfishes (35)
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Armored Catfishes (29)
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Asian Glass Catfishes (1)
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Asiatic Glassfishes (1)
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Bagrid Catfishes (7)
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Banjo Catfish (3)
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Barbel (7)
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Bichirs (2)
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Bonytongues (1)
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Brook Loaches (1)
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Bully Sleepers (2)
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Carps (24)
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Catfish (6)
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Catfishes (29)
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Chameleonfish (5)
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Characins (46)
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Cichlids (218)
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Climbing Perches (3)
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Driftwood Catfishes (3)
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Dwarf Cichlids (20)
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Eartheaters (6)
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Four eyes (1)
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Freshwater Pufferfish (5)
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Gourami (20)
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Halfbeaks (1)
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Hatchetfish (2)
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Headstanders (7)
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Killifish (13)
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Knifefish (1)
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Labeo species (7)
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Labyrinth fish (23)
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Leaffish (2)
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Live-bearers (3)
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Long-whiskered catfishes (1)
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Madagaskar Rainbowfish (2)
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Malawi Cichlids (116)
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Pacu (1)
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Pacu, Piranha and Silver Dollar (2)
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Pencilfish (1)
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Perches (1)
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Pike Cichlids (1)
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Piranhas (13)
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Pointface Loaches (10)
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Rasboras and Danios (13)
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Ricefishes (8)
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River Loaches (5)
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Scrapetooths (1)
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Sea Catfishes (1)
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Shark Catfishes (1)
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Sheatfishes (2)
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Sisorid Catfishes) (1)
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Smallscale pike characins (3)
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Snakeheads (17)
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South American Cichlids (35)
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Spiny Eels (1)
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Squeakers or Upside-down Catfishes (3)
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Stream catfishes (2)
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Sunfishes (2)
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Tanganyika Cichlids (20)
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Toadfishes (1)
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True loaches (2)