Fish images with names - today I will show you pictures of fish from around the world, from the fish that live in fresh water until the fish that live in the sea. from the smallest fish to the largest fish in the world.
A fish is any member of a group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. They form a sister group to the tunicates, together forming the olfactores. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups. Tetrapods emerged within lobe-finned fishes, so cladistically they are fish as well. However, traditionally fish are rendered paraphyletic by excluding the tetrapods (i.e., the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which all descended from within the same ancestry). Because in this manner the term "fish" is defined negatively as a paraphyletic group, it is not considered a formal taxonomic grouping in systematic biology. The traditional term pisces (also ichthyes) is considered a typological, but not a phylogenetic classification. (Wikipedia)
Fish Images With Names
African glass catfish
African lungfish
By Gőtehal.jpg: Mathaederivative work: Bff - Gőtehal.jpg, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10700741 |
Aholehole
Airbreathing catfish
By Mistvan - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2799538 |
Airsac catfish
By Шатилло Г.В. - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16111680 |
Alaska blackfish
Albacore
Alewife
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1656492 |
Alfonsino
Algae eater
Alligatorfish
Alligator gar
By Greg Hume - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30364231 |
Amberjack - Seriola dumerili
American sole
Amur pike
By Andshel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31640440 |
Anchovy
Anemonefish
By Ritiks - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24825656 |
Angelfish
Angler
By User Meocrisis on de.wikipedia - made by Meocrisis, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=863488 |
Angler catfish
Anglerfish Humpback
Antarctic cod
Antarctic icefish
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=207851 |
Antenna codlet
Arapaima
Archerfish
By Ltshears - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6610377 |
Arctic char
Armored gurnard
By Hectonichus - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42968219 |
Armored searobin
Armorhead
Armorhead catfish
Armoured catfish
Arowana
By User:Qwertzy2 - Taken by User:Qwertzy2, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=226294 |
Arrowtooth eel
Aruana
Asian carps
Asiatic glassfish
Atka mackerel
By Andrewarm - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11005288 |
Atlantic Bonito (Sarda sarda)
Atlantic cod
Atlantic herring
Atlantic salmon
Atlantic Sharpnose Shark - Rhizoprioltodon terraenovae
Atlantic saury
Atlantic silverside
Australasian salmon
Australian grayling
By Codman at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15762561 |
Australian herring
Australian lungfish
By Unknown - http://opencage.net/pics.e/large_1151.asp, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9805604 |
Australian prowfish
Ayu
By OAS at the Japanese language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=968976 |
Baikal oilfish
Bala shark
By I, Lerdsuwa, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2286743 |
Ballan wrasse
Bamboo shark
By © Citron, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20805206 |
Banded killifish
By Terrapin83, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17312396 |
CC BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=655178 |
By Christoph Rettberg, Germany, http://bunocephalus.de/ |
By Hectonichus, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51669504 |
Barbel
Barbeled dragonfish
Barbeled houndshark
Barbel-less catfish
Barfish
Barracuda
Barracudina
Barramundi
Barred danio
Barreleye
Basking shark
Bass
Bat ray
By Neil Phillips, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2996515 |
Barbeled houndshark
Barbel-less catfish
By Cláudio D. Timm - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6022321 |
By Iowa Department of Natural Resources, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4664768 |
ByAquaimages, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3553150 |
Barracudina
Barramundi
CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1654077 |
By Rupert A. Collins - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20114598 |
Barreleye
Basking shark
Bass
By Tim Van Vliet, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1420872 |
By Martin Holst Friborg Pedersen https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26213015 |
Beaked salmon
Beardfish
Beluga sturgeon
Bengal danio
Betta
Bichir
Bicolor goat fish
By Izuzuki - http://www.izuzuki.com/ |
Bigeye
By LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) , https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1088968 |
By Dezidor, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12405468 |
Bigmouth buffalo
Bigscale
Bigscale pomfret
Billfish
Bitterling
Black bass
Blackfin Tuna - Thunnus atlanticus
Black neon tetra
By Juan R. Lascorz, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10064831 |
Blacktip reef shark
Black mackerel
By Not mentioned - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31506321 |
Black scabbardfish
Black swallower
Black tetra
By emptyvi - Own work, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24680461 |
By Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25258502 |
By Nick Hobgood, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4567699 |
By David Breneman, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2941600 |
Blowfish
Blue catfish
By forgotton0001 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/forgotton0001/2241245666/ |
By I, Lerdsuwa, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2374856 |
CC BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=934897 |
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna |
Longtail Tuna |
Fasific Bluefin Tuna - By OpenCage - opencage.info |
Southern Bluefin Tuna |
Bluefish
Bluegill
By Ltshears, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5856538 |
By Gourami Watcher, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17169093 |
Blue whiting
Bluntnose knifefish
By Clinton & Charles Robertson, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16041490 |
Boafish
Bobtail snipe eel
Bocaccio
Bombay duck
By Hamid Badar Osmany - http://www.fishbase.us/tools/uploadphoto/uploads/1375143224_182.178.64.14.jpg |
Bonito
Bonytail chub
By Brian Gratwicke - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8024775 |
Bowfin
By Stan Shebs, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2699630 |
By Betty Wills, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44706169 |
By Hectonichus - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41570923 |
Brill
Bristlemouth
Bristlenose catfish
Broadband dogfish
Brook lamprey
By Ra Boe at German Wikipedia - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4774384 |
Brook trout
Brotula
Brown trout
Buffalo fish
Bullhead shark
Bull shark
Burbot
Bumblebee goby
Buri
Butterfish
Butterfly ray
Butterflyfish
California flyingfish
California halibut
Canary rockfish
Candiru
Candlefish
Capelin
Cardinalfish
Cardinal tetra
Carp
Carpetshark
Carpsucker
Catalufa
Catfish
Catla
Cat shark
Cavefish
Celebes rainbowfish
Central mudminnow
Chain pickerel
Channel bass
Channel catfish
Char
Cherry salmon
Chimaera
Chinook salmon
Cherubfish
Chub
Chubsucker
Chum salmon
Cichlid
Cisco
Climbing catfish
Climbing gourami
Climbing perch
Clingfish
Clownfish
Clown loach
Clown triggerfish
Cobbler
Cobia
Cod
Cod icefish
Codlet
Codling
Coelacanth
Coffinfish
Coho salmon
Coley
Collared carpetshark
Collared dogfish
Colorado squawfish
Combfish
Combtail gourami
Combtooth blenny
Common carp
Common tunny
Conger eel
Convict blenny
Convict cichlid
Cookie-cutter shark
Coolie loach
Cornetfish
Cowfish
Cownose ray
Cow shark
Crappie
Creek chub
Crestfish
Crevice kelpfish
Croaker
Crocodile icefish
Crocodile shark
Crucian carp
Cuckoo wrasse
Cusk
Cusk-eel
Cutlassfish
Cutthroat eel
Cutthroat trout
Dab
Dace
Daggertooth pike conger
Damselfish
Danio
Darter
Dartfish
Dealfish
Death Valley pupfish
Deep sea eel
Deep sea smelt
Deepwater cardinalfish
Deepwater flathead
Deepwater stingray
Delta smelt
Demoiselle
Denticle herring
Desert pupfish
Devario
Devil ray
Dhufish
Discus
Diver: New Zealand sand diver or long-finned sand diver
Dogfish
Dogfish shark
Dogteeth tetra
Dojo loach
Dolly Varden trout
Dolphin fish - Corypaena hippurus
Dorab
Dorado
Dory
Dottyback
Dragonet
Dragonfish
Dragon goby
Driftfish
Driftwood catfish
Drum
Duckbill
Duckbill eel
Dusky grouper
Dusky Shark - Carcharhinus obscurus
Dwarf gourami
Dwarf loach
Eagle ray
Earthworm eel
Eel
Eel cod
Eel-goby
Eelpout
Eeltail catfish
Elasmobranch
Electric catfish
Electric eel
Electric knifefish
Electric ray
Elephant fish
Elephantnose fish
Elver
Ember parrotfish
Emerald catfish
Emperor
Emperor angelfish
Emperor bream
Escolar
Eucla cod
Eulachon
European chub
European eel
European flounder
European minnow
European perch
False brotula
False cat shark
False moray
False trevally
Fangtooth
Fathead sculpin
Featherback
Fierasfer
Fire goby
Filefish
Finback cat shark
Fingerfish
Fire bar danio
Firefish
Flabby whale fish
Flagblenny
Flagfin
Flagfish
Flagtail
Flashlight fish
Flatfish
Flathead
Flathead catfish
Flier
Flounder
Flying gurnard
Flying fish
Footballfish
Forehead brooder
Four-eyed fish
French angelfish
Freshwater eel
Freshwater hatchetfish
Freshwater shark
Frigate mackerel
Frilled shark
Frogfish
Frogmouth catfish
Fusilier fish
Galjoen fish
Gag Grouper - Mycteroperca microlepis
Ganges shark
Gar
Garden eel
Garibaldi
Garpike
Ghost fish
Ghost flathead
Ghost knifefish
Ghost pipefish
Ghost shark
Ghoul
Giant danio
Giant gourami
Giant sea bass
Gibberfish
Gila trout
Gizzard shad
Glass catfish
Glassfish
Glass knifefish
Glowlight danio
Goatfish
Goblin shark
Goby
Golden dojo
Golden loach
Golden shiner
Golden trout
Goldeye
Goldfish
Gombessa
Goosefish
Gopher rockfish
Gourami
Grass carp
Graveldiver
Grayling
Gray mullet
Gray reef shark
Gray Trout Cynoscion regalis
Great white shark
Green swordtail
Greeneye
Greenling
Grenadier
Green spotted puffer
Ground shark
Grouper
Grunion
Grunt
Grunter
Grunt sculpin
Gudgeon
Guitarfish
Gulf menhaden
Gulper eel
Gulper
Gunnel
Guppy
Gurnard
Haddock
Hagfish
Hairtail
Hake
Halfbeak
Halfmoon
Halibut
Halosaur
Hamlet
Hammerhead shark
Hammerjaw
Handfish
Hardhead catfish
Harelip sucker
Hatchetfish
Hawkfish
Herring
Herring smelt
Hickory Shad
Hillstream loach
Hog sucker
Hoki
Horn shark
Horsefish
Houndshark
Huchen
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
Hussar
Icefish
Ide
Ilisha
Inanga
Inconnu
Jack
Jackfish
Jack Dempsey
Japanese eel
Javelin
Jawfish
Jellynose fish
Jewelfish
Jewel tetra
Jewfish
John Dory
Kafue pike
Kahawai
Kaluga
Kanyu
Kelp perch
Kelpfish
Killifish
King of the herrings
Kingfish
King-of-the-salmon
Kissing gourami
Knifefish
Knifejaw
Koi
Kokanee
Kokopu
Kuhli loach
Labyrinth fish
Ladyfish
Lagena
Lake chub
Lake trout
Lake whitefish
Lampfish
Lamprey
Lancetfish
Lanternfish
Largemouth bass
Leaffish
Leatherjacket
Lefteye flounder
Lemon shark
Lemon sole
Lemon tetra
Lenok
Leopard danio
Lightfish
Limia
Lined sole
Ling
Ling cod
Lionfish
Little Tunny - Euthynnus alletteratus
Livebearer
Lizardfish
Loach
Loach catfish
Loach goby
Loach minnow
Longfin
Longfin dragonfish
Longfin escolar
Longfin smelt
Long-finned char
Long-finned pike
Longjaw mudsucker
Longneck eel
Longnose chimaera
Longnose dace
Longnose lancetfish
Longnose sucker
Longnose whiptail catfish
Long-whiskered catfish
Loosejaw
Lost River sucker
Louvar
Loweye catfish
Luderick
Luminous hake
Lumpsucker
Lungfish
Mackerel
Mackerel shark
Madtom
Mahi-mahi
Mahseer
Mail-cheeked fish
Mako shark
Mandarin fish
Manefish
Man-of-war fish
Manta ray
Marblefish
Marine hatchetfish
Marlin
Masu salmon
Medaka
Medusafish
Megamouth shark
Menhaden
Merluccid hake
Mexican golden trout
Midshipman fish
Milkfish
Minnow
Minnow of the deep
Modoc sucker
Mojarra
Mola
Monkeyface prickleback
Monkfish
Mooneye
Moonfish
Moorish idol
Mora
Moray eel
Morid cod
Morwong
Moses sole
Mosquitofish
Mouthbrooder
Mozambique tilapia
Mrigal
Mud catfish (Mud cat)
Mudfish
Mudminnow
Mud minnow
Mudskipper
Mudsucker
Mullet
Mummichog
Murray cod
Muskellunge
Mustache triggerfish
Mustard eel
Naked-back knifefish
Nase
Needlefish
Neon tetra
New World rivuline
New Zealand smelt
Nibble fish
Noodlefish
North American darter
North American freshwater catfish
North Pacific daggertooth
Northern anchovy
Northern clingfish
Northern lampfish
Northern pike
Northern sea robin
Northern squawfish
Northern stargazer
Nurseryfish
Nurse shark
Oarfish
Ocean perch
Ocean sunfish
Oceanic whitetip shark
Oilfish
Oldwife
Old World knifefish
Olive flounder
Opah
Opaleye
Orange roughy
Orangespine unicorn fish
Orangestriped triggerfish
Orbicular batfish
Orbicular velvetfish
Oregon chub
Oriental loach
Oscar
Owens pupfish
Pacific albacore
Pacific cod
Pacific hake
Pacific herring
Pacific lamprey
Pacific salmon
Pacific saury
Pacific trout
Pacific viperfish
Paddlefish
Pancake batfish
Panga
Paradise fish
Parasitic catfish
Parore
Parrotfish
Peacock flounder
Peamouth
Pearleye
Pearlfish
Pearl danio
Pearl perch
Pelagic cod
Pelican eel
Pelican gulper
Pencil catfish
Pencilfish
Pencilsmelt
Peppered corydoras
Perch
Peters' elephantnose fish
Pickerel
Pigfish
Pike conger
Pike eel
Pike
Pikeblenny
Pikeperch
Pilchard
Pilot fish
Pineapplefish
Pineconefish
Pink salmon
Píntano
Pipefish
Piranha
Pirarucu
Pirate perch
Plaice
Platy
Platyfish
Pleco
Plownose chimaera
Poacher
Pollyfish
Pollock
Pomfret
Pompano
Pompano dolphinfish
Ponyfish
Popeye catalufa
Porbeagle shark
Porcupinefish
Porgy
Port Jackson shark
Powen
Prickleback
Pricklefish
Prickly shark
Prowfish
Pufferfish
Pumpkinseed
Pupfish
Pygmy sunfish
Queen danio
Queen parrotfish
Queen triggerfish
Quillback
Quillfish
Rabbitfish
Raccoon butterfly fish
Ragfish
Rainbow trout
Rainbowfish
Rasbora
Ratfish
Rattail
Ray
Razorback sucker
Razorfish
Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio)
Red salmon
Red snapper
Redfin perch
Redfish
Redhorse sucker
Redlip blenny
Redmouth whalefish
Redtooth triggerfish
Red velvetfish
Red whalefish
Reedfish
Reef triggerfish
Remora
Requiem shark
Ribbon eel
Ribbon sawtail fish
Ribbonfish
Rice eel
Ricefish
Ridgehead
Riffle dace
Righteye flounder
Rio Grande perch
River loach
River shark
River stingray
Rivuline
Roach
Roanoke bass
Rock bass
Rock beauty
Rock cod
Rocket danio
Rockfish
Rockling
Rockweed gunnel
Rohu
Ronquil
Roosterfish
Ropefish
Rough scad
Rough sculpin
Roughy
Roundhead
Round herring
Round stingray
Round whitefish
Rudd
Rudderfish
Ruffe
Russian sturgeon
Sábalo
Sabertooth
Saber-toothed blenny
Sabertooth fish
Sablefish
Sacramento blackfish
Sacramento splittail
Sailfin silverside
Sailfish
Salamanderfish
Salmon
Salmon shark
Sandbar shark
Sandburrower
Sand dab
Sand diver
Sand eel
Sandfish
Sand goby
Sand knifefish
Sand lance
Sandperch
Sandroller
Sand stargazer
Sand tiger
Sand tilefish
Sandbar Shark - Carchathinus plumbeus
Sarcastic fringehead
Sardine
Sargassum fish
Sauger
Saury
Sawfish
Saw shark
Sawtooth eel
Scabbard fish
Scaly dragonfish
Scat
Scissor-tail rasbora
Scorpionfish
Sculpin
Scup
Sea bass
Sea bream
Sea catfish
Sea chub
Sea devil
Sea dragon
Sea lamprey
Sea raven
Sea snail
Sea toad
Seahorse
Seamoth
Searobin
Sevan trout
Sergeant major
Shad
Shark
Sharksucker
Sharpnose puffer
Sheatfish
Sheepshead
Sheepshead minnow
Shiner
Shortnose chimaera
Shortnose sucker
Shovelnose sturgeon
Shrimpfish
Siamese fighting fish
Sillago
Silver carp
Silver dollar
Silver dory
Silver hake
Silverside
Silvertip tetra
Sind danio
Sixgill ray
Sixgill shark
Skate
Skilfish
Skipjack tuna
Slender mola
Slender snipe eel
Sleeper
Sleeper shark
Slickhead
Slimehead
Slimy mackerel
Slimy sculpin
Slipmouth
Smalleye squaretail
Smalltooth sawfish
Smelt
Smelt-whiting
Smooth dogfish
Snailfish
Snake eel
Snakehead
Snake mackerel
Snapper
Snipe eel
Snipefish
Snoek
Snook
Snubnose eel
Snubnose parasitic eel
Sockeye salmon
Soldierfish
Sole
South American darter
South American lungfish
Southern Dolly Varden
Southern flounder
Southern hake
Southern sandfish
Southern smelt
Spadefish
Spaghetti eel
Spanish mackerel
Spearfish
Speckled trout
Spiderfish
Spikefish
Spinefoot
Spiny basslet
Spiny dogfish
Spiny dwarf catfish
Spiny eel
Spinyfin
Splitfin
Spookfish
Spotted climbing perch
Spotted danio
Spottail Pinfish - Diplodus holbrooki
Sprat
Springfish
Squarehead catfish
Squaretail
Squawfish
Squeaker
Squirrelfish
Staghorn sculpin
Stargazer
Starry flounder
Steelhead
Stickleback
Stingfish
Stingray
Stonecat
Stonefish
Stoneroller minnow
Stream catfish
Striped bass
Striped burrfish
Sturgeon
Sucker
Suckermouth armored catfish
Summer flounder
Sundaland noodlefish
Sunfish
Surf sardine
Surfperch
Surgeonfish
Swallower
Swamp-eel
Swampfish
Sweeper
Swordfish
Swordtail
Tadpole cod
Taimen
Tang
Tapetail
Tarpon
Tarwhine
Telescopefish
Temperate bass
Temperate ocean-bass
Temperate perch
Tench
Tenpounder
Tenuis
Tetra
Thorny catfish
Thornfish
Threadfin
Threadfin bream
Thread-tail
Three spot gourami
Threespine stickleback
Three-toothed puffer
Thresher shark
Tidewater goby
Tiger barb
Tigerperch
Tiger shark
Tiger shovelnose catfish
Tilapia
Tilefish
Titan triggerfish
Toadfish
Tommy ruff
Tompot blenny
Tonguefish
Tope
Topminnow
Torpedo
Torrent catfish
Torrent fish
Trahira
Treefish
Trevally
Triggerfish
Triplefin blenny
Triplespine
Tripletail
Tripod fish
Trout
Trout cod
Trout-perch
Trumpeter
Trumpetfish
Trunkfish
Tubeblenny
Tube-eye
Tube-snout
Tubeshoulder
Tui chub
Tuna
Turbot
Two spotted goby
Uaru
Unicorn fish
Upside-down catfish
Vanjaram
Velvet belly lanternshark
Velvetfish
Vermillion Snapper - Rhomboplites aurorubens
Vimba
Viperfish
By Forgerz - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32470597
Wahoo
Walking catfish
Wallago
Walleye
Walleye pollock
Warmouth
Warty angler
Waryfish
Waspfish
Weasel shark
Weatherfish
Weeverfish
Wels catfish
Whale catfish
Whalefish
Whale shark
Whiff
Whitebait
White croaker
Whitefish
White Grunt - Haemulon plumieri
White marlin
White shark
Whitetip reef shark
Whiting
Wobbegong
Wolf-eel
Wolffish
Wolf-herring
Worm eel
Wormfish
Wrasse
Wrymouth
X-ray fish
Yellow-and-black triplefin
Yellowbanded perch
Yellow bass
Yellowedge Grouper (Epinephelus flavolimbatus)
Yellow-edged moray
Yellow-eye mullet
Yellowhead jawfish
Yellowfin croaker
Yellowfin cutthroat trout
Yellowfin grouper
Yellowfin pike
Yellowfin surgeonfish
Yellowfin tuna
Yellow jack
Yellowmargin triggerfish
Yellow moray
Yellow perch
Yellowtail amberjack
Yellowtail barracuda
Yellowtail clownfish
Yellowtail horse mackerel
Yellowtail kingfish
Yellowtail snapper
Yellow tang
Yellow weaver
Yellowtail catfish
Zander
Zebra bullhead shark
Zebrafish
Zebra lionfish
Zebra loach
Zebra oto
Zebra pleco
Zebra shark
Zebra tilapia
Zebra turkeyfish
Ziege
Zingel
By Cymothoa exigua - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6433192 |
Burbot
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By Citron - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6851555 |
By E-190's - E-190's file https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5009197 |
Butterfly ray
By © Tomas Willems https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24293440 |
California flyingfish
California halibut
Canary rockfish
By Stan Shebs https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=506204 |
Candiru
Candlefish
Capelin
Cardinalfish
CC BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=354671 |
Cardinal tetra
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=399384 |
Carp
By Dezidor - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2387371 |
Carpetshark
Carpsucker
Catalufa
Catfish
Catla
By Khalid Mahmood - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3072963 |
Cavefish
By Hectonichus - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41742666 |
By Shigella dysenteriae https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4056381 |
Chain pickerel
Channel bass
Channel catfish
Char
Cherry salmon
Chimaera
Chinook salmon
Cherubfish
Chub
Chubsucker
Chum salmon
Cichlid
Cisco
Climbing catfish
Climbing gourami
Climbing perch
Clingfish
Clownfish
Clown loach
Clown triggerfish
Cobbler
Cobia
Cod
Cod icefish
Codlet
Codling
Coelacanth
Coffinfish
Coho salmon
Coley
Collared carpetshark
Collared dogfish
Colorado squawfish
Combfish
Combtail gourami
Combtooth blenny
Common carp
Common tunny
Conger eel
Convict blenny
Convict cichlid
Cookie-cutter shark
Coolie loach
Cornetfish
Cowfish
Cownose ray
Cow shark
Crappie
Creek chub
Crestfish
Crevice kelpfish
Croaker
Crocodile icefish
Crocodile shark
Crucian carp
Cuckoo wrasse
Cusk
Cusk-eel
Cutlassfish
Cutthroat eel
Cutthroat trout
Dab
Dace
Daggertooth pike conger
Damselfish
Danio
Darter
Dartfish
Dealfish
Death Valley pupfish
Deep sea eel
Deep sea smelt
Deepwater cardinalfish
Deepwater flathead
Deepwater stingray
Delta smelt
Demoiselle
Denticle herring
Desert pupfish
Devario
Devil ray
Dhufish
Discus
Diver: New Zealand sand diver or long-finned sand diver
Dogfish
Dogfish shark
Dogteeth tetra
Dojo loach
Dolly Varden trout
Dolphin fish - Corypaena hippurus
Dorab
Dorado
Dory
Dottyback
Dragonet
Dragonfish
Dragon goby
Driftfish
Driftwood catfish
Drum
Duckbill
Duckbill eel
Dusky grouper
Dusky Shark - Carcharhinus obscurus
Dwarf gourami
Dwarf loach
Eagle ray
Earthworm eel
Eel
Eel cod
Eel-goby
Eelpout
Eeltail catfish
Elasmobranch
Electric catfish
Electric eel
Electric knifefish
Electric ray
Elephant fish
Elephantnose fish
Elver
Ember parrotfish
Emerald catfish
Emperor
Emperor angelfish
Emperor bream
Escolar
Eucla cod
Eulachon
European chub
European eel
European flounder
European minnow
European perch
False brotula
False cat shark
False moray
False trevally
Fangtooth
Fathead sculpin
Featherback
Fierasfer
Fire goby
Filefish
Finback cat shark
Fingerfish
Fire bar danio
Firefish
Flabby whale fish
Flagblenny
Flagfin
Flagfish
Flagtail
Flashlight fish
Flatfish
Flathead
Flathead catfish
Flier
Flounder
Flying gurnard
Flying fish
Footballfish
Forehead brooder
Four-eyed fish
French angelfish
Freshwater eel
Freshwater hatchetfish
Freshwater shark
Frigate mackerel
Frilled shark
Frogfish
Frogmouth catfish
Fusilier fish
Galjoen fish
Gag Grouper - Mycteroperca microlepis
Ganges shark
Gar
Garden eel
Garibaldi
Garpike
Ghost fish
Ghost flathead
Ghost knifefish
Ghost pipefish
Ghost shark
Ghoul
Giant danio
Giant gourami
Giant sea bass
Gibberfish
Gila trout
Gizzard shad
Glass catfish
Glassfish
Glass knifefish
Glowlight danio
Goatfish
Goblin shark
Goby
Golden dojo
Golden loach
Golden shiner
Golden trout
Goldeye
Goldfish
Gombessa
Goosefish
Gopher rockfish
Gourami
Grass carp
Graveldiver
Grayling
Gray mullet
Gray reef shark
Gray Trout Cynoscion regalis
Great white shark
Green swordtail
Greeneye
Greenling
Grenadier
Green spotted puffer
Ground shark
Grouper
Grunion
Grunt
Grunter
Grunt sculpin
Gudgeon
Guitarfish
Gulf menhaden
Gulper eel
Gulper
Gunnel
Guppy
Gurnard
Haddock
Hagfish
Hairtail
Hake
Halfbeak
Halfmoon
Halibut
Halosaur
Hamlet
Hammerhead shark
Hammerjaw
Handfish
Hardhead catfish
Harelip sucker
Hatchetfish
Hawkfish
Herring
Herring smelt
Hickory Shad
Hillstream loach
Hog sucker
Hoki
Horn shark
Horsefish
Houndshark
Huchen
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
Hussar
Icefish
Ide
Ilisha
Inanga
Inconnu
Jack
Jackfish
Jack Dempsey
Japanese eel
Javelin
Jawfish
Jellynose fish
Jewelfish
Jewel tetra
Jewfish
John Dory
Kafue pike
Kahawai
Kaluga
Kanyu
Kelp perch
Kelpfish
Killifish
King of the herrings
Kingfish
King-of-the-salmon
Kissing gourami
Knifefish
Knifejaw
Koi
Kokanee
Kokopu
Kuhli loach
Labyrinth fish
Ladyfish
Lagena
Lake chub
Lake trout
Lake whitefish
Lampfish
Lamprey
Lancetfish
Lanternfish
Largemouth bass
Leaffish
Leatherjacket
Lefteye flounder
Lemon shark
Lemon sole
Lemon tetra
Lenok
Leopard danio
Lightfish
Limia
Lined sole
Ling
Ling cod
Lionfish
Little Tunny - Euthynnus alletteratus
Livebearer
Lizardfish
Loach
Loach catfish
Loach goby
Loach minnow
Longfin
Longfin dragonfish
Longfin escolar
Longfin smelt
Long-finned char
Long-finned pike
Longjaw mudsucker
Longneck eel
Longnose chimaera
Longnose dace
Longnose lancetfish
Longnose sucker
Longnose whiptail catfish
Long-whiskered catfish
Loosejaw
Lost River sucker
Louvar
Loweye catfish
Luderick
Luminous hake
Lumpsucker
Lungfish
Mackerel
Mackerel shark
Madtom
Mahi-mahi
Mahseer
Mail-cheeked fish
Mako shark
Mandarin fish
Manefish
Man-of-war fish
Manta ray
Marblefish
Marine hatchetfish
Marlin
Masu salmon
Medaka
Medusafish
Megamouth shark
Menhaden
Merluccid hake
Mexican golden trout
Midshipman fish
Milkfish
Minnow
Minnow of the deep
Modoc sucker
Mojarra
Mola
Monkeyface prickleback
Monkfish
Mooneye
Moonfish
Moorish idol
Mora
Moray eel
Morid cod
Morwong
Moses sole
Mosquitofish
Mouthbrooder
Mozambique tilapia
Mrigal
Mud catfish (Mud cat)
Mudfish
Mudminnow
Mud minnow
Mudskipper
Mudsucker
Mullet
Mummichog
Murray cod
Muskellunge
Mustache triggerfish
Mustard eel
Naked-back knifefish
Nase
Needlefish
Neon tetra
New World rivuline
New Zealand smelt
Nibble fish
Noodlefish
North American darter
North American freshwater catfish
North Pacific daggertooth
Northern anchovy
Northern clingfish
Northern lampfish
Northern pike
Northern sea robin
Northern squawfish
Northern stargazer
Nurseryfish
Nurse shark
Oarfish
Ocean perch
Ocean sunfish
Oceanic whitetip shark
Oilfish
Oldwife
Old World knifefish
Olive flounder
Opah
Opaleye
Orange roughy
Orangespine unicorn fish
Orangestriped triggerfish
Orbicular batfish
Orbicular velvetfish
Oregon chub
Oriental loach
Oscar
Owens pupfish
Pacific albacore
Pacific cod
Pacific hake
Pacific herring
Pacific lamprey
Pacific salmon
Pacific saury
Pacific trout
Pacific viperfish
Paddlefish
Pancake batfish
Panga
Paradise fish
Parasitic catfish
Parore
Parrotfish
Peacock flounder
Peamouth
Pearleye
Pearlfish
Pearl danio
Pearl perch
Pelagic cod
Pelican eel
Pelican gulper
Pencil catfish
Pencilfish
Pencilsmelt
Peppered corydoras
Perch
Peters' elephantnose fish
Pickerel
Pigfish
Pike conger
Pike eel
Pike
Pikeblenny
Pikeperch
Pilchard
Pilot fish
Pineapplefish
Pineconefish
Pink salmon
Píntano
Pipefish
Piranha
Pirarucu
Pirate perch
Plaice
Platy
Platyfish
Pleco
Plownose chimaera
Poacher
Pollyfish
Pollock
Pomfret
Pompano
Pompano dolphinfish
Ponyfish
Popeye catalufa
Porbeagle shark
Porcupinefish
Porgy
Port Jackson shark
Powen
Prickleback
Pricklefish
Prickly shark
Prowfish
Pufferfish
Pumpkinseed
Pupfish
Pygmy sunfish
Queen danio
Queen parrotfish
Queen triggerfish
Quillback
Quillfish
Rabbitfish
Raccoon butterfly fish
Ragfish
Rainbow trout
Rainbowfish
Rasbora
Ratfish
Rattail
Ray
Razorback sucker
Razorfish
Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio)
Red salmon
Red snapper
Redfin perch
Redfish
Redhorse sucker
Redlip blenny
Redmouth whalefish
Redtooth triggerfish
Red velvetfish
Red whalefish
Reedfish
Reef triggerfish
Remora
Requiem shark
Ribbon eel
Ribbon sawtail fish
Ribbonfish
Rice eel
Ricefish
Ridgehead
Riffle dace
Righteye flounder
Rio Grande perch
River loach
River shark
River stingray
Rivuline
Roach
Roanoke bass
Rock bass
Rock beauty
Rock cod
Rocket danio
Rockfish
Rockling
Rockweed gunnel
Rohu
Ronquil
Roosterfish
Ropefish
Rough scad
Rough sculpin
Roughy
Roundhead
Round herring
Round stingray
Round whitefish
Rudd
Rudderfish
Ruffe
Russian sturgeon
Sábalo
Sabertooth
Saber-toothed blenny
Sabertooth fish
Sablefish
Sacramento blackfish
Sacramento splittail
Sailfin silverside
Sailfish
Salamanderfish
Salmon
Salmon shark
Sandbar shark
Sandburrower
Sand dab
Sand diver
Sand eel
Sandfish
Sand goby
Sand knifefish
Sand lance
Sandperch
Sandroller
Sand stargazer
Sand tiger
Sand tilefish
Sandbar Shark - Carchathinus plumbeus
Sarcastic fringehead
Sardine
Sargassum fish
Sauger
Saury
Sawfish
Saw shark
Sawtooth eel
Scabbard fish
Scaly dragonfish
Scat
Scissor-tail rasbora
Scorpionfish
Sculpin
Scup
Sea bass
Sea bream
Sea catfish
Sea chub
Sea devil
Sea dragon
Sea lamprey
Sea raven
Sea snail
Sea toad
Seahorse
Seamoth
Searobin
Sevan trout
Sergeant major
Shad
Shark
Sharksucker
Sharpnose puffer
Sheatfish
Sheepshead
Sheepshead minnow
Shiner
Shortnose chimaera
Shortnose sucker
Shovelnose sturgeon
Shrimpfish
Siamese fighting fish
Sillago
Silver carp
Silver dollar
Silver dory
Silver hake
Silverside
Silvertip tetra
Sind danio
Sixgill ray
Sixgill shark
Skate
Skilfish
Skipjack tuna
Slender mola
Slender snipe eel
Sleeper
Sleeper shark
Slickhead
Slimehead
Slimy mackerel
Slimy sculpin
Slipmouth
Smalleye squaretail
Smalltooth sawfish
Smelt
Smelt-whiting
Smooth dogfish
Snailfish
Snake eel
Snakehead
Snake mackerel
Snapper
Snipe eel
Snipefish
Snoek
Snook
Snubnose eel
Snubnose parasitic eel
Sockeye salmon
Soldierfish
Sole
South American darter
South American lungfish
Southern Dolly Varden
Southern flounder
Southern hake
Southern sandfish
Southern smelt
Spadefish
Spaghetti eel
Spanish mackerel
Spearfish
Speckled trout
Spiderfish
Spikefish
Spinefoot
Spiny basslet
Spiny dogfish
Spiny dwarf catfish
Spiny eel
Spinyfin
Splitfin
Spookfish
Spotted climbing perch
Spotted danio
Spottail Pinfish - Diplodus holbrooki
Sprat
Springfish
Squarehead catfish
Squaretail
Squawfish
Squeaker
Squirrelfish
Staghorn sculpin
Stargazer
Starry flounder
Steelhead
Stickleback
Stingfish
Stingray
Stonecat
Stonefish
Stoneroller minnow
Stream catfish
Striped bass
Striped burrfish
Sturgeon
Sucker
Suckermouth armored catfish
Summer flounder
Sundaland noodlefish
Sunfish
Surf sardine
Surfperch
Surgeonfish
Swallower
Swamp-eel
Swampfish
Sweeper
Swordfish
Swordtail
Tadpole cod
Taimen
By Ojensen at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6953595 |
Tang
By Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=563147 |
Tapetail
Tarpon
Tarwhine
Telescopefish
Temperate bass
Temperate ocean-bass
Temperate perch
Tench
Tenpounder
Tenuis
Tetra
Thorny catfish
Thornfish
Threadfin
Threadfin bream
Thread-tail
Three spot gourami
Threespine stickleback
Three-toothed puffer
Thresher shark
Tidewater goby
Tiger barb
Tigerperch
Tiger shark
Tiger shovelnose catfish
Tilapia
Tilefish
Titan triggerfish
Toadfish
Tommy ruff
Tompot blenny
Tonguefish
Tope
Topminnow
Torpedo
Torrent catfish
Torrent fish
Trahira
Treefish
Trevally
Triggerfish
Triplefin blenny
Triplespine
Tripletail
Tripod fish
Trout
Trout cod
Trout-perch
Trumpeter
Trumpetfish
Trunkfish
Tubeblenny
Tube-eye
Tube-snout
Tubeshoulder
Tui chub
Tuna
Turbot
Two spotted goby
Uaru
By Ivan Mikolji / www.fishfromvenezuela.com - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hu/5/51/Uaru_fernandezyepezi.jpg, CC BY 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8268033 |
Unicorn fish
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/southern-line-islands/img/06-whitemargin-unicornfish-670.jpg |
Upside-down catfish
By en:User:Neale Monks, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1663160 |
Vanjaram
Velvet belly lanternshark
Velvetfish
Vermillion Snapper - Rhomboplites aurorubens
By {JSR} - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jedstr/361589655/in/set-72157607722942806/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7103391 |
Vimba
Viperfish
By Forgerz - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32470597
Wahoo
Walking catfish
By Rajesh dangi at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17409142 |
Wallago
By Reezwan - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17132371 |
Walleye
Walleye pollock
Warmouth
Warty angler
By CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35432863 |
Waryfish
Waspfish
By Izuzuki - http://www.izuzuki.com/, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=702961 |
Weasel shark
Weatherfish
Weeverfish
By Nabokov at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17668835 |
Wels catfish
Whale catfish
Whalefish
Whale shark
By User:Zac Wolf (original), en:User:Stefan (cropping) - en:Image:Whale shark Georgia aquarium.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1312499 |
Whiff
Whitebait
By Elisa Prato from Firenze, Italy - [1], CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3356682 |
White croaker
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=862091 |
Whitefish
By Matthieu Godbout - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1897579 |
White Grunt - Haemulon plumieri
By Andy Blackledge - P4150114Uploaded by Magnus Manske, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21415569 |
White marlin
By dominic sherony - originally posted to Flickr as White Marlin in North Carolina, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4139120 |
White shark
By Terry Goss, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1561215 |
Whitetip reef shark
Whiting
Wobbegong
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64470 |
Wolf-eel
Wolffish
Wolf-herring
By Jean-Lou Justine - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45804814 |
Worm eel
Wormfish
Wrasse
By Leonard Low from Australia - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1554985 |
Wrymouth
By Derek Keats - Taken by Derek Keats, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5025660 |
X-ray fish
By Richard Bartz, Munich Makro Freak - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2121085 |
Yellow-and-black triplefin
Yellowbanded perch
Yellow bass
By Bclegg77 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49508270 |
Yellowedge Grouper (Epinephelus flavolimbatus)
Yellow-edged moray
By jon hanson from london, UK - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=665667 |
Yellow-eye mullet
Yellowhead jawfish
By http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Opistognathus_aurifrons.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1301309 |
Yellowfin croaker
Yellowfin cutthroat trout
Yellowfin grouper
Yellowfin pike
Yellowfin surgeonfish
By Julien Bidet - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38592542 |
Yellow jack
By Kare Kare - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21904321 |
Yellowmargin triggerfish
Yellow moray
Yellow perch
Yellowtail amberjack
Yellowtail barracuda
By Jens Petersen - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1586263 |
Yellowtail clownfish
By Samuel Chow - Flickr: Clark's Anemonefish (School of) 2, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31878060 |
Yellowtail horse mackerel
By Richard Ling from NSW, Australia - Yellowtail Scad, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3155022 |
Yellowtail kingfish
Yellowtail snapper
By Fred Hsu (Wikipedia:User:Fredhsu on en.wikipedia) - Photo taken and uploaded by user, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1561062 |
Yellow tang
By I, Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3733305 |
Yellow weaver
Yellowtail catfish
By Xufanc - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17549679 |
Zander
By eLNuko - Own work (own photo), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1806446 |
Zebra bullhead shark
By CSIRO National Fish Collection - http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1983, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26251884 |
Zebrafish
By Azul - Own work, Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=260841 |
Zebra lionfish
By Richard Ling - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1885844 |
Zebra loach
By Lerdsuwa - Own photo (400D + 50/1.4), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=468701 |
Zebra oto
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49072 |
Zebra pleco
By Birger A - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3805857 |
Zebra shark
By jon hanson from London - leopard shark, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6605518 |
Zebra tilapia
By Hectonichus - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41768974 |
Zebra turkeyfish
By Jens Petersen - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1431228 |
Ziege
Zingel
By User:Haplochromis - Own work (own Photo), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1103441 |
Images of Fish
The earliest organisms that can be classified as fish were soft-bodied chordates that first appeared during the Cambrian period. Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts. Fish would continue to evolve through the Paleozoic era, diversifying into a wide variety of forms. Many fish of the Paleozoic developed external armor that protected them from predators. The first fish with jaws appeared in the Silurian period, after which many (such as sharks) became formidable marine predators rather than just the prey of arthropods.
Most fish are ectothermic ("cold-blooded"), allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change, though some of the large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish). With 33,100 described species, fish exhibit greater species diversity than any other group of vertebrates.
Fish are an important resource for humans worldwide, especially as food. Commercial and subsistence fishers hunt fish in wild fisheries (see fishing) or farm them in ponds or in cages in the ocean (see aquaculture). They are also caught by recreational fishers, kept as pets, raised by fishkeepers, and exhibited in public aquaria. Fish have had a role in culture through the ages, serving as deities, religious symbols, and as the subjects of art, books and movies.
Most fish are ectothermic ("cold-blooded"), allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change, though some of the large active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish). With 33,100 described species, fish exhibit greater species diversity than any other group of vertebrates.
Fish are an important resource for humans worldwide, especially as food. Commercial and subsistence fishers hunt fish in wild fisheries (see fishing) or farm them in ponds or in cages in the ocean (see aquaculture). They are also caught by recreational fishers, kept as pets, raised by fishkeepers, and exhibited in public aquaria. Fish have had a role in culture through the ages, serving as deities, religious symbols, and as the subjects of art, books and movies.