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Barramundi
Lates calcarifer
A powerful tropical fish found in coastal, brackish, and freshwater systems across the Indo-Pacific.
Catla
Labeo catla
Catla is a large South Asian carp found in warm rivers, reservoirs, and floodplain lakes. It is a fast-growing surface and midwater feeder, valued as an aquaculture and food fish rather than a premier sport species.
Common Carp
Cyprinus carpio
A widespread freshwater fish with large scales, barbels, and strong bottom-feeding behavior.
Mrigal Carp
Cirrhinus cirrhosus
Mrigal carp is a South Asian freshwater cyprinid widely cultured and also found in rivers and floodplain waters. It is a bottom-feeding fish that roots through soft sediment for detritus and benthic organisms.
Rohu
Labeo rohita
Rohu is a large South Asian carp prized for food and pond culture, native to major river systems like the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Indus. It is an herbivorous to omnivorous bottom- and midwater feeder that often schools in rivers, reservoirs, and floodplain waters.
Aba
Gymnarchus niloticus
Gymnarchus niloticus – the aba, aba aba or frankfish – is an electric fish, living at the bottoms of rivers and lakes. It is the only species in the genus Gymnarchus and the family Gymnarchidae, within the order Osteoglossiformes. It is a long slender fish with no pelvic or anal fins, and a tail fin shaped like a rat's tail. It swims using its elongated dorsal fin, allowing it to keep its body...
Abbott's Moray
Gymnothorax eurostus
Abbott's moray is a reef-associated moray eel known from tropical Indo-Pacific waters, but species-level natural history is not as well documented as for more common reef fishes. It hides in crevices by day and emerges at night to hunt fish and crustaceans.
Abdurahmanov's pugolovka
Benthophilus abdurahmanovi
Abdurahmanov's pugolovka is a brackishwater fish of family Gobiidae. It is found in the northern Caspian Sea and the lower reaches of the rivers Volga and Terek. FishBase treats this taxa as a subspecies of the Azov tadpole goby, and is reported as Benthophilus magistri abdurahmanovi.
Abe's Angelfish
Centropyge abei
Centropyge abei is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a small marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean.
Abe's Flyingfish
Cheilopogon abei
Abe's Flyingfish is a unknown fish recorded under the scientific name Cheilopogon abei. This guide summarizes identification, habitat, bait choices, fishing notes, and local rule reminders.
Abe's mangrove goby
Mugilogobius abei
Abe's mangrove goby is a unknown fish recorded under the scientific name Mugilogobius abei. This guide summarizes identification, habitat, bait choices, fishing notes, and local rule reminders.
Abrau Sprat
Clupeonella abrau
The Abrau sprat is a species of freshwater fish in the family Clupeidae. It is found landlocked in Russia in a single locality, Lake Abrau, located at 70 m above sea level near the Black Sea coast close to Novorossiysk. The lake is small and has been stocked by several alien species, whence the Abrau sprat is considered critically endangered. As a result of the 2019 expedition, several individu...