Oddballs & Brackish · names

Every name, resolved

Each fish here is known by a current scientific binomial under the Catalog of Fishes and, for many species, by an English common name used in the trade. Several of these fish have no settled English name at all, and some trade names are shared across unrelated species. This index cross-references both layers, the 59 scientific names and 70 common names, and resolves each one to its species page.

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Scientific name — the valid binomial under the Catalog of Fishes, the authority for valid names. Common name — the English names for the species, including the names the hobby and the trade use. Each entry is tagged with its group: badids, glassfish, archerfish, leaf fish, freshwater pipefish, brackish fish or odd families.

129 of 129 name entries

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