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 Tetras (7)
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Airbreathing catfish (1)
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American soles (1)
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Armored Catfishes (7)
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Armored Catfishes (25)
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Bagrid Catfishes (14)
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Banjo Catfish (2)
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Barbel (1)
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Bichirs (1)
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Bonytongues (1)
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Bully Sleepers (1)
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Carps (5)
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Catfish (1)
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Catfishes (28)
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Chameleonfish (4)
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Characins (39)
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Cichlids (88)
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Climbing Perches (3)
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Driftwood Catfishes (3)
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Eartheaters (2)
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Freshwater Pufferfish (4)
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Halfbeaks (1)
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Halftooths (1)
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Headstanders (8)
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Knifefish (1)
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Long-whiskered catfishes (1)
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Madagaskar Rainbowfish (2)
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Malawi Cichlids (53)
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Pacu, Piranha and Silver Dollar (2)
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Pike Cichlids (1)
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Piranhas (2)
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Rasboras and Danios (4)
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River Loaches (5)
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Scrapetooths (1)
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Sea Catfishes (1)
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Sisorid Catfishes) (1)
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Snakeheads (16)
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Splashing Tetras (1)
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Stream catfishes (2)
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Suckers (1)
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Sunfishes (2)
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Tanganyika Cichlids (1)
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Toadfishes (1)
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True loaches (2)
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Asiatic Glassfishes (1)
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Brook Loaches (2)
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Dwarf Cichlids (6)
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Gourami (2)
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Killifish (9)
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Labyrinth fish (2)
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Pointface Loaches (6)
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Ricefishes (7)
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Smallscale pike characins (4)
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South American Cichlids (13)