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Fish guide prioritized for Southeast Asia.

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Barramundi held near tropical water
BrackishLocal priority

Barramundi

Lates calcarifer

A powerful tropical fish found in coastal, brackish, and freshwater systems across the Indo-Pacific.

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Climbing Perch reference image
FreshwaterLocal priority

Climbing Perch

Anabas testudineus

Climbing Perch (Anabas testudineus) is a hardy air-breathing fish of ponds, ditches, floodplains, and rice fields across South and Southeast Asia. It can survive low oxygen and short overland movements in damp conditions, making it a resilient invasive in some regions.

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Giant Snakehead reference image
FreshwaterLocal priority

Giant Snakehead

Channa micropeltes

Giant snakehead (Channa micropeltes) is a large predatory freshwater snakehead from Southeast Asia, notorious for rapid growth and aggressive strikes. Juveniles often travel in schools, while adults become solitary ambush hunters in warm, sluggish waters.

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Red snapper side profile
SaltwaterLocal priority

Red Snapper

Lutjanus campechanus

A reef-associated saltwater target with a red body, spiny dorsal fin, and strong structure-oriented behavior.

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Talang Queenfish reference image
SaltwaterLocal priority

Talang Queenfish

Scomberoides commersonnianus

Talang queenfish is a fast-swimming coastal carangid of the Indo-West Pacific, often seen in surf zones, bays, estuaries, and around reefs. It is a sharp-toothed predator that chases small fish near the surface and is valued by anglers for blistering runs and acrobatic jumps.

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Aba reference image
Freshwater

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...

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Saltwater

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.

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Abdurahmanov's pugolovka reference image
Freshwater

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.

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Freshwater

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.

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Freshwater

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...

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Abudjubbe Wrasse reference image
Freshwater

Abudjubbe Wrasse

Cheilinus abudjubbe

Cheilinus abudjubbe, the Abudjubbe wrasse, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. This species was formally described by Eduard Rüppell in 1835, no type locality was given but it is thought to have been Jeddah. This taxon is regarded as a synonym of the tripletail wrasse by some authorities.

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Freshwater

Abyssal halosaur

Halosauropsis macrochir

The abyssal halosaur is a species of bottom-dwelling, deep-sea fish in the family Halosauridae that is found in all oceans at depths from 1100 to 3500 meters. It is the only member of its genus.

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