Common names
In this category, freshwater fish are classified by their common group name. Some fish fall under more than one category. For example, a dwarf cichlid is also a cichlid and is therefore included in both categories. Not all groups of fish species have a clearly defined common name. You can find these fish in the category with scientific names.
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Shark Catfish (1)
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African Lampeyes (1)
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African Tetra's (9)
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Airbreathing Catfishes (2)
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American Soles (1)
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Angelfish (1)
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Archerfish (3)
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Ariid Catfish (1)
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Armored-Catfishes (40)
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Armoured Catfish (18)
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Arowana (2)
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Asiatic Glassfishes (1)
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Banjo Catfishes (4)
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Barbs (10)
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Bonytongues (1)
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Carps or Minnows (11)
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Catfish (6)
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Catfish (54)
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Chameleonfishes (5)
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Characins (63)
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Cichlids (342)
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Climbing Perches (4)
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Cyprinids (65)
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Danios (2)
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Driftwood Catfishes (3)
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Dwarf Cichlids (37)
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Eartheaters (7)
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Eeltail Catfish (1)
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Featherfins (2)
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Foureyes (1)
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Freshwater Tripletails (1)
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Gars (1)
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Giraffe Catfish (14)
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Glass Catfish (2)
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Goatfishes (1)
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Gobies (7)
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Gourami (44)
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Gudgeons (1)
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Halfbeaks (5)
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Halftooths (1)
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Hatchetfish (7)
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Headstanders (7)
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Headstanders (1)
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Hillstream Loaches (11)
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Killifish (32)
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Knifefish (7)
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Leaffish (3)
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Live bearing tooth carps (12)
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Loaches (10)
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Long Whiskered Catfishes (16)
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Lungfish (3)
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Madagascar Rainbowfishes (2)
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Malawi Cichlids (117)
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Pencil Fishes (2)
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Pencilfish (6)
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Perches (2)
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Pike Cichlids (3)
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Piranhas (14)
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Pointface Loaches (6)
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Puffers (13)
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Pygmy Sunfishes (1)
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Rainbowfish and Lampeyes (2)
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Rasbora and Danio (28)
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Ricefish (8)
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Sandperches (1)
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Scrapetooths (1)
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Serrasalmids (2)
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Sleeper Gobies (2)
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Smallscale Pike Characins (4)
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Snakeheads (30)
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South Asian River Catfishes (1)
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Spiny Eels (10)
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Squeakers (10)
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Stone Loach (4)
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Suckers (1)
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Sunfish (2)
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Tanganyika Cichlids (64)
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Thorny Catfishes (4)
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Toadfish (1)
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Trahiras (3)