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Fish

Fish in this database: 6 species, 4 of them threatened, recorded across 135 countries.

Sharks and rays · 3Bony fish · 3

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Species filed
6
Threatened
4
Countries recorded
135
With a free photo
100%

All fish on file

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Where are fish recorded?

Species on file in this group with sighting records in each country. Recorded sightings, not natural ranges.

Fiji: 1 speciesTanzania: 1 speciesW. Sahara: 1 speciesCanada: 5 speciesUnited States of America: 6 speciesPapua New Guinea: 2 speciesIndonesia: 5 speciesArgentina: 2 speciesChile: 2 speciesSudan: 2 speciesRussia: 1 speciesNorway: 2 speciesGreenland: 1 speciesFr. S. Antarctic Lands: 5 speciesTimor-Leste: 1 speciesSouth Africa: 6 speciesMexico: 5 speciesUruguay: 1 speciesBrazil: 5 speciesPeru: 3 speciesColombia: 3 speciesPanama: 3 speciesCosta Rica: 4 speciesHonduras: 1 speciesGuatemala: 1 speciesBelize: 3 speciesSuriname: 1 speciesFrance: 5 speciesEcuador: 4 speciesPuerto Rico: 1 speciesJamaica: 1 speciesCuba: 1 speciesNamibia: 3 speciesSenegal: 2 speciesBenin: 2 speciesGhana: 3 speciesCôte d'Ivoire: 1 speciesGuinea: 2 speciesLiberia: 1 speciesGabon: 1 speciesEq. Guinea: 2 speciesMozambique: 3 speciesAngola: 1 speciesIsrael: 2 speciesMadagascar: 1 speciesTunisia: 1 speciesAlgeria: 2 speciesUnited Arab Emirates: 1 speciesQatar: 1 speciesKuwait: 1 speciesOman: 2 speciesVanuatu: 1 speciesThailand: 4 speciesMyanmar: 2 speciesVietnam: 3 speciesIndia: 4 speciesBangladesh: 1 speciesPakistan: 1 speciesIran: 1 speciesSweden: 2 speciesUkraine: 1 speciesPoland: 1 speciesAustria: 1 speciesLithuania: 1 speciesLatvia: 1 speciesEstonia: 2 speciesGermany: 3 speciesGreece: 1 speciesTurkey: 3 speciesSwitzerland: 1 speciesLuxembourg: 1 speciesBelgium: 3 speciesNetherlands: 3 speciesPortugal: 5 speciesSpain: 4 speciesIreland: 2 speciesNew Caledonia: 4 speciesNew Zealand: 4 speciesAustralia: 6 speciesSri Lanka: 2 speciesChina: 2 speciesTaiwan: 5 speciesItaly: 2 speciesDenmark: 2 speciesUnited Kingdom: 4 speciesIceland: 1 speciesPhilippines: 5 speciesMalaysia: 3 speciesBrunei: 1 speciesFinland: 1 speciesCzechia: 2 speciesJapan: 6 speciesYemen: 3 speciesSaudi Arabia: 1 speciesMorocco: 1 speciesEgypt: 2 speciesDjibouti: 1 species
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species per country · small islands are not drawn at this scale
  1. United States6
  2. Australia6
  3. Japan6
  4. South Africa6
  5. France5
  6. Canada5
  7. French Southern Territories5
  8. Mexico5
  9. Portugal5
  10. Philippines5
  11. Brazil5
  12. Indonesia5
  13. Taiwan5
  14. United Kingdom4
  15. Spain4
  16. Thailand4
  17. New Zealand4
  18. New Caledonia4
  19. Réunion4
  20. Mayotte4

How “fish” is defined here

A species belongs to this group if it sits anywhere under one of these branches of the classification.

class Elasmobranchiiclass Actinopterygiiclass Teleosteiclass Holocephaliclass Myxiniclass Petromyzonticlass Dipneusticlass Coelacanthiclass Chondrosteiclass Holosteiclass Cladistiiorder Perciformesorder Salmoniformesorder Tetraodontiformesorder Cypriniformesorder Siluriformesorder Gadiformesorder Anguilliformesorder Syngnathiformesorder Pleuronectiformesorder Clupeiformesorder Scombriformesorder Ovalentaria

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