Barbus

Barbus

Barbus is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of Barbus is the Common Barbel, first described as Cyprinus barbus and now named Barbus barbus...

Barbus arulius

Barbus conchonius

Barbus cumingi

Barbus daruphani

Barbus dorsalis

Barbus everetti

Barbus fasciatus

Barbus filamentosa

Barbus gelius

Barbus lateristriga

Barbus melanympyx

Barbus nigrofasciatus

Barbus "odessa"

Barbus oligolepis

Barbus oligolepis

Barbus oligolepis is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Turkey.Its taxonomic history has become entangled with that of the Checker Barb of Indonesia, described as Capoeta oligolepis by Pieter Bleeker in 1853 and subsequently often placed in Barbus. But this is not...

Barbus pentazona johorensis

Barbus roloffi

Barbus sachsi

Barbus schuberti

Barbus schwanenfeldi

Barbus semifasciolatus

Barbus tetrazona

Barbus tetrazona (Green)

Barbus tetrazona (Red)

Barbus ticto stoliczkae

Barbus titteya

Barbus vittatus

Barbus walkerie

Brachydanio

Brachydanio albolineatus

Brachydanio kerri

Brachydanio frankei

Brachydanio rerio

Rasbora

Rasbora

A rasbora is a member of a group of small minnow-type fish in the family Cyprinidae . Fish from genera such as Boraras, Microrasbora, Rasbora and Trigonostigma are commonly referred to as rasboras...

Rasbora borapetensis

Rasbora caudimaculata

Rasbora daniconius

Rasbora dorsiocellata

Rasbora dorsiocellata

Brevibora dorsiocellata is a small fish belonging to the Family Cyprinidae, subfamily Danioninae, which is known by the common names of ocellated rasbora, hi-spot rasbora, and eye-spot rasbora, an allusion to the marking situated upon the dorsal fin...

Rasbora einthoveni

Rasbora elegans

Rasbora heteromorpha

Rasbora kalachroma

Rasbora maculata

Rasbora pauciperforata

Rasbora trilineata

Rasbora vaterifloris

Botia

Botia

Botia is a genus of freshwater fish in the loach family . It was a large genus with about 20 species. In 2004 Maurice Kottelat proposed in his paper to divide the genus into four related genera based on fish appearance and locality:* Botia for Indian loaches .*...

Botia horae

Botia lohachata

Botia macracantha

Botia modesta

Botia sidthimunki

Botia striata

Botia striata

The zebra loach, Botia striata, is a small freshwater fish native to Southern India. The maximum size is about 3 in . It lives in tropical climate with temperature range of 23-26°C , and prefers water with 6.0 to 8.0 pH, 5.0 to 12 dGH....

Hemigrammus

Hemigrammus

Hemigrammus is a genus of characins from South America with one species also occurring in Central America. There are currently 54 described species in this genus. Many of these species are popular aquarium fish.-Species:...

Hemigrammus caudovittatus

Hemigrammus erythrozonus

Hemigrammus erythrozonus

Hemigrammus erythrozonus, also known as the glowlight tetra, is a small tropical fish found in the wild in the Essequibo River, Guyana, South America. It is silver in colour and a bright iridescent orange to red stripe extends from the snout to the base of its tail. The front part of the dorsal...

Hemigrammus ocellifer

Hemigrammus pulcher

Hemigrammus pulcher

Hemigrammus pulcher is a semi-popular aquarium species, also known as the pretty tetra, garnet tetra or black wedge tetra ...

Hemigrammus rhodostomus

Hyphessobrycon

Hyphessobrycon

Hyphessobrycon is a genus of freshwater fish in the characin family of order Characiformes. The Hyphessobrycon species are among the fishes known as tetras. All species of this genus are native to the Neotropic ecozone in South America.-Taxonomy:This large genus of characins includes over 100...

Hyphessobrycon bifasciatus

Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma

Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma

Bleeding Heart Tetra, Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma is a peaceful mid-dwelling community fish in the aquarium. Grows to the size of 64mm and lives about 5 years. It requires warm water . This fish, like most tetras, needs soft, acid water, pH 6.5-6.8, with plenty of plants.- General :This fish...

Hyphessobrycon flammeus

Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi

Hyphessobrycon heterorhabdus

Hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis

Hyphessobrycon rosaceus

Hyphessobrycon rosaceus

The Rosy tetra comes from the South American countries of Guyana and Brazil.- Water Conditions :The Rosy tetra is a tropical fish and a temperature of between 24 and 28 degrees C is suitable...

Hyphessobrycon serpae

Leporinus

Leporinus

Leporinus is a genus of Anostomid fish. Seven species have been recently separated in Hypomasticus, but Leporinus is still paraphyletic and needs to be split up further.-Species list:...

Leporinus desmotes

Leporinus frederici

Leporinus octofasciatum

Leporinus arcus

Carnegiella

Carnegiella marthae

Carnegiella strigata strigata

Carnegiella myersi

Carnegiella myersi

The pygmy hatchetfish is a species of hatchetfish native to Peru.-External links:* *...

Nannostomus

Nannostomus beckfordi aripirangensis

Nannostomus beckfordi

Nannostomus eques

Nannostomus trifasciatus

Nannostomus trifasciatus

Nannostomus trifasciatus, commonly known as the three-lined pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the genus Nannostomus in the Lebiasinidae family of Characins...

Nannostomus unifasciatus unifasciatus

Distichodus

Distichodus

Distichodus is a genus of fish in the Distichodontidae family. It comprises 23 species....

Distichodus affinis

Distichodus lussoso

Distichodus noboli

Distichodus sexfasciatus

Distichodus sexfasciatus

The Six-banded distichodus is a species of fish in the Distichodontidae family....

Apistogramma

Apistogramma

Apistogramma is a genus of approximately a hundred species of fish from the family Cichlidae found in tropical areas of the Amazon basin and Venezuela. Apistogramma literally means "irregular lateral line" referring to a common trait of the species under this taxon...

Apistogramma agassizi

Apistogramma cacatuoides

Apistogramma cacatuoides

Apistogramma cacatuoides is a species of South American cichlid usually known under the common name cockatoo dwarf cichlid. Unlike many other Apistogramma species, A. cacatuoides is not threatened by extinction, as it is widely bred in captivity for the aquarium trade.-Characteristics:The male...

Apistogramma macmasteri

Apistogramma macmasteri

Apistogramma macmasteri is a dwarf cichlid in the subfamily Geophaginae. It is a benthopelagic freshwater fish that lives in the Meta River and the Orinoco River in Colombia. They grow up to in total length....

Apistogramma nijsseni

Apistogramma nijsseni

Apistogramma nijsseni is a species of cichlid fish, endemic to the black water habitats in the Carahuayte river drainage, Peru. The species is popular aquarium fish amongst dwarf cichlid hobbyists....

Apistogramma trifasciatum

Aequidens

Aequidens

Aequidens is a genus of fish in the family Cichlidae. The genus itself is poorly defined and polyphyletic. Many species have been reallocated to other genera such as Bujurquina, Laetacara, Tahuantinsuyoa , Krobia and Cleithracara .Two fishes commonly sold in the aquarium hobby are Aequidens rivulatus...

Aequidens maronii

Aequidens pulcher

Aequidens rivulatus

Aequidens curviceps

Cichlasoma

Cichlasoma

Cichlasoma is a genus of fish in the cichlid family.The genus was previously very large, including cichlids from Texas, North America, through all of Central America to parts of South America....

Cichlasoma citrinellum

Cichlasoma dovii

Cichlasoma maculicauda

Cichlasoma cyanoguttatum

Cichlasoma managuense

Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum

Cichlasoma severum

Cichlasoma festivum

Julidochromis

Julidochromis

Julidochromis is a genus of cichlids in the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae. They are commonly called julies and are endemic to Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa. This genus includes at least 5 species, each with a number of subspecies and local variants of uncertain taxonomic status...

Julidochromis dickfeldi

Julidochromis dickfeldi

Julidochromis dickfeldi is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa where it is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.-References:...

Julidochromis marlierie

Julidochromis regani

Melanochromis

Melanochromis

Melanochromis is a genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in Eastern Africa. It was established by Ethylwynn Trewavas in 1935. Ecologically, they belong to the rock-dwelling mbuna cichlids of Lake Malawi....

Melanochromis auratus

Melanochromis auratus

The auratus cichlid, Melanochromis auratus, is a freshwater fish of the cichlid family. It is also known as golden mbuna and Malawi golden cichlid. It is endemic to the southern region of Lake Malawi, particularly from Jalo Reef southward along the entire western coast down to Crocodile Rocks...

Melanochromis chipokae

Melanochromis chipokae

Melanochromis chipokae is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is endemic to Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.-Source:* Kasembe, J. 2005. . Downloaded on 4 August 2007....

Melanochromis johanni

Pseudotropheus

Pseudotropheus

Pseudotropheus is a genus of rock dwelling cichlids found in Lake Malawi. Like some other large cichlid genera, such as Cichlasoma, a number of related fishes have been recently re-assigned to different genera such as Tropheops or Maylandia...

Pseudotropheus elongatus

Pseudotropheus lombardoi

Pseudotropheus tropheops

Pseudotropheus zebra

Ctenopoma

Ctenopoma

Ctenopoma is a genus of bony fishes in the Anabantidae family. It contains the following species:*Ctenopoma acutirostre Pellegrin, 1899 – spotted climbing perch, leopard bush fish*Ctenopoma ashbysmithi Banister & Bailey, 1979...

Ctenopoma acutirostre

Ctenopoma ansorgei

Ctenopoma ansorgei

Microctenopoma ansorgii is a small freshwater fish, known in the aquarium trade as the Ornate ctenopoma, Orange Ctenopoma, Ornate climbing perch, Pretty ctenopoma, or Rainbow ctenopoma. It belongs to the same genus as the Spotted Climbing Perch but looks very different...

Ctenopoma fasciolatum

Ctenopoma oxyrhynchus

Trichopodus

Trichopodus cantoris

Trichopodus cantoris

Trichopodus cantoris is a labyrinth fish of the gourami family.- Physical description :The two black spots are united by a longitudinal zigzag band running from the mouth through the eye to the caudal fin. The caudal is white-spotted. The height of the body is two-fifths or three-sevenths of the...

Trichopodus leerii

Trichopodus microlepis

Trichopodus pectoralis

Trichopodus trichopterus

Lepomis

Lepomis

Lepomis is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. The most recognizable species of the sixteen in this genus is the Bluegill....

Lepomis cyanellus

Lepomis gibbosus

Lepomis humilis

Lepomis macrochirus

Lepomis punctatus

Lepomis punctatus

Lepomis punctatus is the spotted sunfish sometimes referred to as a Stumpknocker or Stump Knocker. It is in the genus Lepomis ....

Amphiprion

Amphiprion frenatus

Amphiprion ocellaris

Amphiprion perideraion

Centropyge

Centropyge

Centropyge is a genus of marine angelfishes. The genus is the largest within the Pomacanthid family, comprising over 30 described species. Species in this group do not exceed 15 cm in length and live in haremic structures with one dominant male and multiple females...

Centropyge argi

Centropyge bicolor

Centropyge bispinosus

Centropyge eibli

Centropyge loriculus

Holacanthus

Holacanthus

Holacanthus is a genus of marine angelfishes . The eight species are particularly abundant near volcanic rocks and coral islands...

Holacanthus ciliaris

Holocanthus tricolor

Holocanthus trimaculatus

Pomacanthus

Pomacanthus

Pomacanthus is a genus of marine angelfish that is usually found around reefs and coral. Some of the notable places one can see these vari-coloured fish includes the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Sipidan off the southern coast of Sabah, Malaysia.-Species:...

Pomacanthus annularis

Pomacanthus maculosus

Pomacanthus maculosus

Pomacanthus maculosus, also known by the common names yellowbar angelfish, half moon or blue moon angelfish, and map angelfish, is a marine angelfish distributed throughout the Persian Gulf, the northwestern Indian Ocean and Red Sea...

Pomacanthus imperator

Pomacanthus paru

Pomacanthus semicirculatus

Pomacanthus semicirculatus

Pomacanthus semicirculatus is a marine angelfish from the Indo-West Pacific ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 40cm in length....

Chaetodon

Chaetodon

Chaetodon is a tropical fish genus in the family Chaetodontidae. Like their relatives, they are known as "butterflyfish". This genus is by far the largest among the Chaetodontidae, with about 90 living species included here, though most might warrant recognition as distinct genera.Several subgenera...

Chaetodon auriga

Chaetodon lunula

Chaetodon quadrimaculatus

Chaetodon unimaculatus

Chaetodon decussatus

Dascyllus

Dascyllus

Dascyllus is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.-Species:*Dascyllus albisella *Dascyllus aruanus *Dascyllus auropinnis *Dascyllus carneus...

Dascyllus aruanus

Dascyllus carneus

Dascyllus carneus

Dascyllus carneus is a Damselfish from the Indian Ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 7cm in length....

Dascyllus melanurus

Dascyllus melanurus

Dascyllus melanurus, also known as Four Stripe Damselfish, Blacktail Dascyllus, Blacktail Damselfish, or Blacktail Humbug is a popular saltwater aquarium fish from the Indo-Pacific.-Appearance:A small marine fish that reaches four inches in length...

Dascyllus trimaculatus

Plectorhynchus

Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides

Plectorhinchus orientalis

Plectorhinchus orientalis

Plectorhinchus orientalis is a Grunt from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 86cm in length....

Aphyosemion

Aphyosemion amieti

Aphyosemion australe

Aphyosemion bivittatum

Aphyosemion gardneri

Aphyosemion sjoestedti

Aphyosemion striatum

Aphyosemion walkeri

Poecilia

Poecilia

Poecilia is a genus of euryhaline brackish water fish in family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes. The type species is P. vivipara. Live-bearers, the Poecilia species are collectively known as mollies, with the exception of Endler's livebearer and the famous guppy...

Poecilia nigrofasciata

Poecilia reticulata

Poecilia latipinna

Xiphophorus

Xiphophorus

Xiphophorus is a genus of euryhaline and freshwater fishes in the family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes. The many Xiphophorus species are all called either platyfish or swordtails. The type species is X. hellerii, the Green swordtail. Platyfish and swordtails are Live-bearers, meaning...

Xiphophorus helleri

Xiphophorus maculatus

Xiphophorus variatus

Skiffia

Skiffia

Skiffia is a genus of goodeid fish that contains four species, endemic to the Mesa Central area of Mexico.They typically have a limited tolerance to environmental degradation, and so are susceptible to anthropogenic disturbance...

Skiffia francesae x multipunctatus

Corydoras

Corydoras

Members of the South American Corydoras genus are freshwater temperate and tropical catfish in the armored catfish family , and are commonly referred to as corydorases, cories, or cory catfish.-Taxonomy:...

Corydoras aenus

Corydoras barbatus

Corydoras elegans

Corydoras haraldshultzi

Corydoras leucomelas

Corydoras napoensis

Corydoras paleatus

Corydoras paleatus

Corydoras paleatus is a species of catfish of the family Callichthyidae. Its common names include peppered cat, pepper cory or salt & pepper cory. It originates from the lower Paraná River basin and coastal rivers in Uruguay and Brazil.-Description:This fish species reaches about...

Melanotaenia

Melanotaenia

Melanotaenia is a genus of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family.-Species:* New Guinea rainbowfish, Melanotaenia affinis * Ajamaru Lakes rainbowfish, Melanotaenia ajamaruensis Allen & Cross, 1980...

Melanotaenia boesmani

Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi

Melanotaenia lacustris

Melanotaenia maccullochi

Melanotaenia splendida

Melanotaenia fluviatilis

Mastacembelus

Mastacembelus

Mastacembelus is a genus of many species of spiny eel fish from the family Mastacembelidae.Some species are relatively common in the aquarium trade such as the Fire eel and Zig-zag eel, Mastacembelus is a genus of many species of spiny eel fish from the family Mastacembelidae.Some species are...

Mastacembelus armatus

Mastacembelus circumcinctus

Mastacembelus erythrotaenia