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A Murray cod. For its land-size, Australia has a low diversity of native freshwater fish with only 281 described species. [1] This is largely because Australia is a very dry continent with sporadic rainfall and large areas of desert. There is a higher diversity of salt water fish. The most common freshwater fish are: Murray cod. Australian bass.
Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
List of introduced fish. American flagfish, Jordanella floridae[ 1] Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar[ 2] Brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis[ 2] Brown trout, Salmo trutta[ 2] Chinook Salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha[ 2] Common carp, Cyprinus carpio[ 3] Convict cichlid, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus[ 4][ 5] Domingo mosquitofish, Gambusia dominicensis[ 6]
Engraulis ringens. Wild. 4,692,855. Silver carp. Hypophthalmichthys molitrix. Cultivated. 4,189,578. A variety of Asian carp, widely cultivated with other aquaculture carp, but under pressure in its home range (China and eastern Siberia). Also called "flying fish", it is an invasive species in many countries.
Freshwater fish of Australia are limited to approximately 280 species, even though the Australian continent is larger than the contiguous United States. [1] The small scale of species found in Australian inland waters is in some part due to the dry conditions of the continent. Rainfall is sporadic over much of the continent, and fish cannot ...
Freshwater fish of North America (7 C, 128 P) Prehistoric fish of North America (4 C, 28 P) Fish of North America becoming extinct since 1500 (36 P)
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.