sawfish

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Sawfish, entry in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, Volume 16: Rifleman - sea slug, page 2238,
The sawlike snout that gives the sawfish its common name may represent up to one-third of its total body length. Despite its sharklike shape, the sawfish is more closely related to rays.

Because of their sharklike appearance, people often refer to the sawfishes as sharks. However, they are actually related to the skates and rays because the gills are ventral, the eyes are on top of the head, and the pectoral fins are attached to the head.

2006, Glenn R. Parsons, Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico: A Field Guide, page 123:

Smalltooth sawfish native to rivers in south-west Florida appear to have given birth without sex – essentially cloning themselves.
The sawfish (Pristis pectinata) – a type of ray that grows up to 7 metres long – is a critically endangered species.[…]The sawfish is the first vertebrate shown to use parthenogenesis in the wild.

2015 June 6, “Sawfish babies don’t need a dad”, in New Scientist, number 3024, archived from the original on 2015-09-05, page 17:

Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw.


striped beakfish

en-noun

striped beakfish (plural striped beakfishes or striped beakfish)

striped beakfishes (plural)
striped beakfish (plural)

A tropical fish of species Oplegnathus fasciatus, found primarily in waters around Japan, with young distinguished by alternating stripes or bars of light and dark grey, whence the names; Adults, which grow up to 15 inches, tend to be charcoal grey.


spearfish

spearfish (plural spearfishes or spearfish)

Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.


spearfish

en-verb

spearfish (third-person singular simple present spearfishes, present participle spearfishing, simple past and past participle spearfished)

spearfishes (present singular third-person)
spearfishing (participle present)
spearfished (participle past)
spearfished (past)

Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies.

1979 February 7, “Outdoors: Northeast Spearfishing”, in The New York Times:

A Bajau diver spearfishes in Sulawesi.

2018 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea”, in The New York Times:

He always said freediving was the best way to spearfish because it required enormous patience and concentration, without the benefit of a scuba tank, to hold one’s position until the right prey came along.

2020 July 14, Tom Mashberg, “Jay Riffe, Spearfishing King, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times:

To try to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.


zebrafish

en-noun

zebrafish (plural zebrafishes or zebrafish)

Use of the GAL4-UAS technique for targeted gene expression in the zebrafish.

2002, Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Pattern Formation in Zebrafish:

A small striped fish of species Danio rerio, originally from India but now common as an aquarium fish and as a subject of genetic experiments.


bottom feeder

The Apristurus genus, the second-most diverse group of sharks that counts about 40 species, is commonly known as the ghost or demon catshark. […] The sharks are bottom feeders and have elongated catlike eyes.

2023 May 12, Lauren McCarthy, “‘A Bit Spooky’: The New Shark Species With Bright, White Eyes”, in The New York Times:

A fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish.

pohjakala

a fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish


groundling

From ground + -ling. Compare Old English grundling (“a groundling fish, grundel”).

cog

The BEARDED-LOACH or GROUNDLING. Gobites Barbatula. It is a small fish about five inches long, bearded with six small Threads, three on each side

1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge:

When you angle for a trout, you are to do it as deep, that is, as near to the bottom as you can, provided your bait do not drag, although a trout will sometimes take it in that posture: if for a grayling, you are then to fish further from the buttom, it being a fish that usually swims nearer to the middle of the water, and lies always loose; or, however, is more apt to raise than trout, and more inclined to raise than to descend, even to a groundling.

Fertilized groundling (Misgurnus fossilis) and sturgeon (Acipenser Stellatus) eggs were irradiated (10,000 r) at stages from fertilization to middle gastrulation.

1958, Soviet Physics, Doklady, page 464:

Lopashov (1944) extirpated and grafted neural tubes from several species of teleosts—the groundling, Misgurnus fossilis, the loach, Nemacheilus barhatulus, and the perch, Perca fluviatilis — to determine whether pigment cells were of neural crest origin.

1999, Brian K. Hall, The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution, →ISBN, page 82:

Cobitis taenia
Cobitis taenia#Translingual

Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:

The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.

Charadrius hiaticula
Charadrius hiaticula#Translingual

The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.

In the pond behind the garden there were plenty of carp and groundlings.

1922, Ivan Turgenev, chapter XXVI, in Constance Garnett, transl., A House of Gentlefolk, London: Heinemann, page 155:

[…] the ewe called Tiny
 Crossed over and touched her, the others turned anxious looks
 From sniffing the autumn-pinched leaves of the groundling blackberries.

1929, Robinson Jeffers, “The Loving Shepherdess”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1937, page 219:

Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards.

2012, David Williams, Planning on Murder, →ISBN:


finfish

(informal) Short for finned fish. As in ray-finned fish. Term is used to distinguish them from shellfish, cartilaginous fish and other similar aquatic creatures customarily used as food.


barramunda

A Queensland lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri).


knifetooth sawfish

en-noun

knifetooth sawfish (plural knifetooth sawfishes)

Anoxypristis cuspidata, a sawfish of the family Pristidae, the lone member of the genus Anoxypristis.


Baltic herring

Baltic herring (usually uncountable, plural Baltic herrings)

Clupea harengus membras
Clupea harengus membras#Translingual

A subspecies of Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus membras), living in the Baltic Sea, smaller than Atlantic herring, with leaner flesh.


Atlantic herring

Atlantic herring (plural Atlantic herrings or Atlantic herring)

Atlantic herrings (plural)
Atlantic herring (plural)

Clupea harengus
Clupea harengus#Translingual

Clupea harengus, an abundant species of herring and an important food fish living in the North Atlantic.


platy

platy (plural platys or platies or platy)

platys (plural)
platies (plural)
platy (plural)

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Translingual: Platypoecilus (“former genus of platys”)

desc

I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.

Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).


candiru

/ˌkændɪˈɹuː/

From Old Tupi, via Portuguese or Spanish.

A small parasitic catfish, Vandellia cirrhosa, native to the Amazon river, rumored to swim up male urethras.


parrotfish

en-noun

parrotfish (plural parrotfishes or parrotfish)

parrotfishes (plural)
parrotfish (plural)

Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.


reef triggerfish

reef triggerfish (plural reef triggerfish or reef triggerfishes)

reef triggerfish (plural)
reef triggerfishes (plural)

Rhinecanthus rectangulus, a species of triggerfish.


fantail

Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.


sazan

From Russian саза́н (sazán), from Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *siāŕgan (“carp; snake, dragon”).

der

Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio#Translingual

A fish (Cyprinus carpio) in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to Sea of Azov, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Balkhash lake, Amour river.


fingerling

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fingerling.wav

From Middle English fyngyrlynge, equivalent to finger + -ling, from having the size of a human finger.

(zoology) A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.


pouting

Trisopterus luscus
Trisopterus luscus#Translingual

A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus.


paddlefish

en-noun

paddlefish (plural paddlefishes or paddlefish)

paddlefishes (plural)
paddlefish (plural)

Caviar comes from various species of sturgeons and paddlefishes.

1996 May 21, The Associated Press, “Test for Caviar Source”, in The New York Times:

A plucky, compact vendor of fish, Mr. Shuckman spent years peddling southern paddlefish roe from his seafood shop in Louisville, knocking on doors of fancy restaurants and country clubs, asking anyone who would listen, "Y'all want some caviar?"

2003 July 20, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Humble Paddlefish Fulfills Southerners' Caviar Dreams”, in The New York Times:

Any of several primitive fish, of the family Polyodontidae, that have a long snout shaped like a paddle.


actinopterygian

[…] actinopterygians have 'ray fins' which are supported by a series of narrow cartilaginous or bony rods called radials, while sarcopterygians have 'lobe fins' supported by a single basal bone and with muscles that can modify the posture of the fin.

1997, Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Palaeontology, 2nd edition, Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 64:

The ear of all nonteleostean actinopterygian fishes (Grande and Bemis 1996) does not differ much from that of ratfish (considered by most an ancient line of cartilaginous fish), with the notable exception of the position of the ultricular macula.

1999, Bernd Fritzsch, “2: Hearing in Two Worlds”, in Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors, Comparative Hearing: Fish and Amphibians, page 19:

The otico-orbitotemporal region is formed by a single ossification in primitive actinopterygians but by many separate ossifications in advanced actinopterygians, expecially teleosts.

2004, Bhavna Khanna, Ichthyology Handbook, page 108:

2004, M. L. J. Stiassny, E. O, Wiley, G. D. Johnson, M. R, de Carvalho, 24: Gnathostome Fishes, Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue (editors), Assembling the Tree of Life, page 416,
The most basal of living actinopterygians are the bichirs (Polypteridae), a small group (11 spp.) of African fishes previously thought to be related to the lobefin fishes (sarcopterygians), or to form a third group.

(zoology) Any of the ray-finned fish of the taxonomic class Actinopterygii.

actinopterígio

any of the ray-finned fish of the class Actinopterygii


longspine snipefish

longspine snipefish (plural longspine snipefishes)

A moderately elongate species of snipefish with a tubular snout equal to about a quarter of the total body length, Macroramphosus scolopax.


tuna fish

tuna fish (countable and uncountable, plural tuna fishes)

(uncountable) The flesh of this fish, used as food


tunny

tunny (countable and uncountable, plural tunny or tunnies)

→ Irish: tuinnín

From Middle French thon + -y, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), + -y.

The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 3:

You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--

2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:


small fry

small fry (plural small fry or small fries)

From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.


leaffish

leaffish (plural leaffishes or leaffish)

A small South American freshwater fish of the family Polycentridae.


placoderm

From placo- + -derm, after German Placoderm.

Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12:

(paleontology) A member of an extinct class (Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods.


golomyanka

Either of two species of fish of the family Cottidae, endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia (Comephorus baicalensis and Comephorus dybowskii).


omul

Any of the salmon-like fish of species Coregonus migratorius (syn. Coregonus autumnalis migratorius), native to Lake Baikal in Siberia


copi

Clipping of copious, coined by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources in 2022 in reference of the abundance of Asian carp as well as to give it a less racist name.

Now imagine if copi becomes the new tuna or tilapia or shrimp. Skyrocketing demand could encourage a surge in fishing, which in turn could help restore some semblance of ecological balance in rivers up and down the Mississippi watershed.

2022 June 22, Patti Wetli, “Introducing Copi, the Fish Formerly Known as Asian Carp”, in WTTW:

You’re in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. Ugh, you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River?

2022 June 22, John Flesher, “A ‘copi’ fillet? Illinois hopes new name for ‘invasive carp’ will convince diners”, in PBS:

That may as well be the new battle cry for Illinois fishery managers trying to rebrand four invasive species of Asian carp as copi.

2022 January 7, Chris Bentley, “If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em: Illinois fisheries rebrand the invasive Asian carp”, in WBUR:

It’s “copi,” short for “copious,” which the fish certainly are in Illinois’s waterways. Copi are actually four very different fish species native to China: grass, bighead, black, and silver carp.

2022 August 14, Christian Elliot, “This Invasive Fish Got an Anti-Racist Rebrand”, in Sierra:


fusilier

Borrowed from French fusilier, from fusil.

A fish in family Caesionidae, related to snappers.


gadoid

From modern Latin gadus, from Ancient Greek γάδος (gádos, “cod”). See -oid.


pickerel

From Middle English pikerel; equivalent to pike + -rel.

I see, that the Pickrell-fish, and the Swallowes live well by her lawes.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


tule

From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).

uder

A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin


hoki

Borrowed from Maori hoki (“blue grenadier”).

bor+

Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.


masu

From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).

bor

masu-seki

possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.


thrasher

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.


sile

en-verb

sile (third-person singular simple present siles, present participle siling, simple past and past participle siled)

siles (present singular third-person)
siling (participle present)
siled (participle past)
siled (past)

From Middle English silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) + -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).

cog

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.

(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.


sile

From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.


pollard

From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.


skipjack

Any of several not closely related fish.


snakehead

Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.

2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1:

(zoology) A family of perciform fish native to Africa and Asia, Channidae.

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.

A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead

(US, rail transport) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.

(rare) Alternative form of snake's head, various unrelated species of flowering plant, including Fritillaria meleagris.


sergeant major

en-noun

sergeant major (plural sergeant majors or sergeants major)

sergeant majors (plural)
sergeants major (plural)

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(US, plural sergeants major) The most senior rank of non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, ranking above a first sergeant. In the United States Marine Corps it ranks above First Sergeant and is equal in grade to Master Gunnery Sergeant.


gravelling

Uncertain. Compare Old French gravele (“minnow”) + -ling.


mossback

From moss + back (in senses 1 (“person with old-fashioned views; one who is very conservative or reactionary”) and 2.3 (“fish that is large and old”) probably a variant of mossyback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.
Sense 2.4 (“largemouth bass”) may refer to the back of the fish being a dark green colour.

(informal, historical) A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.


moonlighter

(Australia) A southern Australian marine fish, Tilodon sexfasciatum.


jewie

From jewfish + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), ultimately from jewel.

(Australia) A fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway.


garibaldi

/ɡæɹɪˈbældi/

The jacket is named after Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, who wore a red shirt of similar appearance. The biscuit is also named after Garibaldi.

(British) a biscuit consisting of currants squashed between layers of flaky pastry.


rudd

Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.

2007, Martin James, “At the Waters Edge blog!”, in BBC - Lancashire - Sport, retrieved 2010-08-02:

Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.

common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)


red-eye

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Agkistrodon contortrix Linnaeus.—Cotton-mouth, Highland Moccasin, Rattlesnake Pilot, Red-eye.

[1905, F. N. Notestein, “The Ophidia of Michigan with an Analytical Key”, in Seventh Report of the Michigan Academy of Science: […], Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, →OCLC, page 120:

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

(countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.

(US) Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).


aua

When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.

1855, Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui: Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, page 133:

The Picton Herring, a dried fish commonly known throughout the colony, is the Aua preserved by smoking.

1872, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Sir James Hector, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with Diagnoses of the Species:

(New Zealand) Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.


taimen

From Russian тайме́нь (tajménʹ, “Hucho taimen”), from Middle Russian таймень (tajmenʹ), from Old Novgorodian таимень (taimenĭ), from Finnish taimen (“Salmo trutta”).

der

One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.

1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times:

A species of salmon (Hucho taimen), living in Siberia.


karanteen

karanteen sea bream
karanteen sea bream#English

A saltwater fish of any of several varieties found in the waters near southern Africa.

A white karanteen or karanteen sea bream (Crenidens crenidens).


threespine stickleback

en-noun

threespine stickleback (plural threespine sticklebacks)

Gasterosteus aculeatus
Gasterosteus aculeatus#Translingual

Gasterosteus aculeatus, an endangered species of European stickleback.


escolar

From Spanish escolar, because of a resemblance of the rings around the eyes to a scholar's spectacles. Doublet of scholar.
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And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of “white tuna” was not tuna at all, but escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum). Consumption of more than 100 grams or so of this species causes severe diarrhoea.

2013 February 20, Helen Thomson, “News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?”, in New Scientist, volume 217, number 2904, page 7:

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, one of the snake mackerels.

Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish.

Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).


amberjack

amberjack (countable and uncountable, plural amberjacks)

From amber (“yellow color”) + jack (“fish of family Carangidae”).

It was an amberjack, and twice as large as any I had ever seen before. As I drew up the captain's snapper this amberjack came to the surface, and I certainly yelled.

1925, Zane Grey, Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas, published 2000, page 111:

Greater amberjacks have 11-19 gill rakers, a long anal fin base, 7 dorsal fin spines, and 30-34 dorsal fin rays.

2006, Jerald Horst, Mike Lane, Angler's Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, page 223:

The greater amberjack is the largest of the jacks, the most important amberjack to anglers, and, like most of its brethren, a strong fighter.

2011, Ken Schultz, Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish, page 31:

Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.


pollan

A freshwater fish, Coregonus pollan, resembling a herring


European eel

Anguilla anguilla
Anguilla anguilla#Translingual

A snake-like fish, reaching between 60 cm and 1.5 m in length, Anguilla anguilla.


doncella

Borrowed from Spanish doncella (“maid”). Doublet of damsel, demoiselle, and donzella.

doublet

A fish of Florida and the West Indies (Halichoeres radiatus).


gunner

Cebuano: gunner

gonna (non-rhotic, based on the /ˈɡʌn.ə/ pronunciation)

From Middle English gonner; equivalent to gun + -er.

Pagellus bogaraveo
Pagellus bogaraveo#Translingual

(UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)


squaloid

From Latin squālus (“a large sea fish; a shark”) + -oid.

af

Several species of squaloids have light-emitting organs, but none can glow as brightly as the monotypical Isistius brasiliensis.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 136:


tyee

(Canada) A large chinook salmon that weighs more than 13.5 kg.


basker

We'd had our first encounter with a basking shark, and, metaphorically at least, this gigantic, strange beast had me firmly in its jaws. Out of our wetsuits and back on dry land, we headed for the marine laboratories at Port Erin on the south of the island to meet biologist Jill Strawbridge. Coming face to face with a basker had whetted my appetite, and I was keen to get to the bottom of some of the mysteries surrounding Cetorhinus maximus.


yellowfin

en-noun

yellowfin (plural yellowfin or yellowfins)

yellowfin cutthroat trout (†Oncorhynchus clarkii macdonaldi, in the family Salmonidae)

yellowfin sea bream, any of several species in family Sparidae

Any of various fish with yellow fins.
yellowfin sole (Limanda aspera)


glossohyal

From glosso- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).

uder

the letter <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">upsilon</i>

(zoology anatomy) The tongue bone, specifically the lingual plate, which is a dermal toothed bone that covers or fuses with the basihyal.


blackfish

en-noun

blackfish (plural blackfishes or blackfish)

(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).


gunnel

From Middle English gonnewalle, itself from gonne (“gun”) + wale, as it used to support the ship's guns; equivalent to gun + wale.

A small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, especially Pholis gunnellus.


fishify

en-verb

fishify (third-person singular simple present fishifies, present participle fishifying, simple past and past participle fishified)

fishifies (present singular third-person)
fishifying (participle present)
fishified (participle past)
fishified (past)

[…] I have found a cure for his lunatic excellency. Water expelleth fire—marry, when he talks of being an archbishop, souse him, good Tio,—fishify him straight,—may be his madness is a dog madness which flieth from the fountain.

1822 December, “Vargas [Vargas: A Tale of Spain, in three volumes. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 1822.]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume XII, number LXXI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T[homas] Cadell, Strand, London, →OCLC, page 740:

For although unable to recognise in water an universal and infallible panacea for all the ills that flesh is heir to, we can yet bear a large testimony in its favour, and send it out to service with the highest character. It is our deliberate and mature conviction that the inhabitants of the Cumbraes and the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland may, to their own infinite advantage, fishify their flesh a great deal more than they do at present.

1846 September, Richard J[ames] Lane, “The Water-Cure [Life at the Water-Cure; or, a Month at Malvern. A Diary. By Richard J. Lane. London: 1846]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume LX, number CCCLXXI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T[homas] Cadell, Strand, London, →OCLC, page 385:

(transitive, figuratively) To make as wet as a fish; to drench with water.


cyprinid

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the Cyprinidae family of fish that includes carps and minnows.


cyprinid

Romanichthys, commonly known as the Romanian darter, is a very primitive cyprinid which has two dorsal fins and a covering of rough scales.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 122:


wolffish

en-noun

wolffish (plural wolffishes or wolffish)


macchi

(India, cooking) Any of several white fish used in Indian cooking


brasse

Perhaps a transposition of barse; but compare German Brasse (“bream”), and English bream.

Sander lucioperca
Sander lucioperca#Translingual

The zander (Sander lucioperca), a European freshwater fish.


brisling

From Norwegian brisling and Danish brisling, from Low German bretling, from bret (“broad”), from Middle Low German *brêd, from Old Saxon brēd.

Sprattus sprattus
Sprattus sprattus#Translingual

A sprat (small herring), especially Sprattus sprattus.


togue

Via Canadian French from an Algonquian word.

Salvelinus namaycush
Salvelinus namaycush#Translingual

Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, a freshwater char of northern North America.


sea trout

sea trout (plural sea trouts or sea trout)

A fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon and a subspecies of brown trout. It is lighter in colour than the brown trout, and lives in salt water, returning to fresh water only to spawn.


grunter

Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.


cavefish

cavefish (plural cavefishes or cavefish)

Any of various fish, typically blind and lacking pigment, that inhabit subterranean waters.


angel shark

A member of the unusual genus Squatina of sharks with flattened bodies and broad pectoral fins resembling skates or rays. There are approximately 16 known species, which are the only members of their taxonomic genus, family and order. They occur worldwide in temperate and tropical seas.

àngel

a member of the unusual genus Squatina of sharks


cartilaginous fish

cartilaginous fish (plural cartilaginous fishes or cartilaginous fish)

cartilaginous fishes (plural)
cartilaginous fish (plural)

Any member of the taxonomic class Chondrichthyes, having a skeleton made of cartilage rather than bone. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fishes.


kelt

I know fine hoo a kelt should be pit on, though I'm no Highlander mysel'

1895, “Sketches from Scotland”, in Punch:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


rabbitfish

rabbitfish (plural rabbitfish or rabbitfishes)

rabbitfish (plural)
rabbitfishes (plural)

From rabbit + fish, from its mouth shape.

Any fish in the family Chimaeridae, cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes.


sea rover

Compare Danish sørøver, German Seeräuber, Norwegian sjørøver, Swedish sjörövare.

(British, colloquial, archaic) A herring.


trahira

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese traíra.

etymon

The American ray-finned fish Hoplias malabaricus.


cyprine

en-adj

cyprine (comparative more cyprine, superlative most cyprine)

more cyprine (comparative)
most cyprine (superlative)

From Latin cyprīnus (“a species of carp”) + -ine.


bluefin

bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.


bogue

Related to Spanish boga (“a ray-finned fish”) Leporinus obtusidens, from Late Latin bōca, bōx; Box vulgaris is an older name for Boops boops. Compare also the obsolete term boce for this or another kind of fish.

A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).


panga

Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of translingual Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś, “mud- or brown-coloured fish”).

der

Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.


volador

A flying fish of California (Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus californicus).


elephantfish

en-noun

elephantfish (plural elephantfish or elephantfishes)

elephantfish (plural)
elephantfishes (plural)

A plownose chimaera, any fish in the not closely related genus Callorhinchus of cartilaginous fish, which uses its fleshy snout to feel for food in sediments and to sense electric fields.


Greenland shark

Greenland shark (plural Greenland sharks)

Somniosus microcephalus
Somniosus microcephalus#Translingual

A large shark (Somniosus microcephalus) that inhabits the northern Atlantic Ocean.


seadog

(uncommon) A white-topped wave in an estuary.


crucian carp

crucian carp (usually uncountable, plural crucian carps)

Carassius carassius
Carassius carassius#Translingual

Carassius carassius, a species of carp found in northern Europe and northern Asia.

A fish of any species in genus Carassius.


snakefish

snakefish (plural snakefish or snakefishes)

Any of the several fish that resemble a snake.


hardhead

Aythya australis
Aythya australis#Translingual

A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí binááʼ łigaaígíí


slippery as an eel

(simile, colloquial) So slippery that it is almost impossible to hold.


lagoon triggerfish

lagoon triggerfish (plural lagoon triggerfish)

Rhinecanthus aculeatus
Rhinecanthus aculeatus#Translingual

Rhinecanthus aculeatus, a vividly-coloured tropical fish.


syno

Any member of the genus Synodontis of catfishes.


speckled carpetshark

speckled carpetshark (plural speckled carpetsharks)

A bamboo shark, of the family Hemiscylliidae found around northern Australia; Hemiscyllium trispeculare.


speckled trout

speckled trout (plural speckled trout or speckled trouts)

speckled trout (plural)
speckled trouts (plural)

Salvelinus fontinalis
Salvelinus fontinalis#Translingual

A North American freshwater game fish (Salvelinus fontinalis); the brook trout.


corvina

Any of various fish, including Cilus gilberti, Larimichthys polyactis, and members of the genera Cynoscion and Isopisthus.


red snapper

Any of several Atlantic foodfishes, of the genus Lutjanus, that have reddish bodies

Rhomboplites aurorubens (vermillion snapper)


suckermouth

A ventrally orientated (inferior) mouth, in some fish, adapted for grazing on algae etc.


Torbay sole

An Atlantic flatfish, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus; witch; formerly classified as Pleuronectes cynoglossus.


landlocked salmon

landlocked salmon (plural landlocked salmon or landlocked salmons)

landlocked salmon (plural)
landlocked salmons (plural)

Populations of the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar that inhabit freshwater only.


lemon sole

Probably from French sole limande. See Wikipedia article for more theories.

A European flatfish of the species Microstomus kitt (not a true sole).


European perch

European perch (plural European perches or European perch)

European perches (plural)
European perch (plural)

Perca fluviatilis
Perca fluviatilis#Translingual

A freshwater fish of species Perca fluviatilis in the family Percidae, native to northern Eurasia.


pike-perch

pike-perch (plural pike-perch or pike-perches)

pike-perch (plural)
pike-perches (plural)

Any of the five species of fish in the genus Sander of the family Percidae (perches and darters).


percoid

(obsolete) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae (originally named "Percoides" before family-name endings were standardized).


common carp

common carp (plural common carps or common carp)

common carps (plural)
common carp (plural)

Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio#Translingual

A fish in the carp family, of species Cyprinus carpio.


eulachon

Borrowed from Chinook Jargon ulakan, from Clatsop Chinook.

The Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia observe certain ceremonies when the first olachen fish of the season are caught.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 254:


capelin

Borrowed from Middle French capelan, from Provençal and Old Occitan capelan, from Late Latin cappellānus (“chaplain”). Doublet of chaplain.

The birds are spread - so that we can see what they are like; and the men catching capelins are elevated up out of the umiak, where they practically float on the gunwale, so that we can perceive that they are the main figures and see their work-movements (fig. 250).

1983, Bodil Kaalund, translated by Kenneth Tindall, The Art of Greenland: Sculpture, Crafts, Painting, page 161:

Capelin are widely distributed in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Sea Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka Peninsula.

1996, (US) National Academy of Sciences, The Bering Sea Ecosystem, page 107:

Capelin is a relatively small, pelagic species found in the North-East Atlantic, the Barents Sea, Southwest of Greenland, off the coast of Labrador, and around Newfoundland.

2009, Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, Who Gets What?, page 20:

Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.


sea lamprey

Petromyzon marinus
Petromyzon marinus#Translingual

A parasitic lamprey found in Europe and North America, Petromyzon marinus.


European river lamprey

European river lamprey (plural European river lampreys)

Any lamprey of species Lampetra fluviatilis, of Europe.


river lamprey

European river lamprey
European river lamprey

European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis).


brook lamprey

A small European lamprey, Lampetra planeri.


ruffe

From ruff, referring to the dorsal spines.

Gymnocephalus cernua
Gymnocephalus cernua#Translingual

Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.


carp bream

Abramis brama
Abramis brama#Translingual

A species of freshwater bream, Abramis brama.


fourhorn sculpin

fourhorn sculpin (plural fourhorn sculpins)

A species of fish of the Cottidae family, Myoxocephalus quadricornis, found in Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States.


shorthorn sculpin

shorthorn sculpin (plural shorthorn sculpins)

Myoxocephalus scorpius
Myoxocephalus scorpius#Translingual

A species of fish in the Cottidae family: Myoxocephalus scorpius.


alpine bullhead

alpine bullhead (plural alpine bullheads)

A species of fish in the Cottidae family, Cottus poecilopus.


European bullhead

European bullhead (plural European bullheads)

A European species in the Cottidae family, Cottus gobio.


long-spined bullhead

long-spined bullhead (plural long-spined bullheads)

A species of the Cottidae family, Taurulus bubalis.


viviparous eelpout

viviparous eelpout (plural viviparous eelpouts)

Zoarces viviparus
Zoarces viviparus#Translingual

(US) A fish in the family Zoarcidae (Zoarces viviparus).


viviparous blenny

viviparous blenny (plural viviparous blennies)

(British) A fish in the family Zoarcidae, Zoarces viviparus.


cusk

Early 17th century; of unknown origin. Probably an alteration of torsk or tusk, a codlike fish, from Norwegian tosk, torsk; Old Norse thorskr, codfish.

He suggested cusk, because he knew they would have it. She had never heard of cusk. “Doesn't it sound exotic!” she said. “Exotic indeed!” he laughed, and almost told her what a humdrum fish it really was, but stopped himself.

1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 89:

A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.


bighead

bighead (countable and uncountable, plural bigheads)

bighead goby

Drombus globiceps and Ponticola kessleri

bighead grenadier

Coryphaenoides capito and Coryphaenoides rudis

(countable, colloquial) Any of several species of fish having a large head.


bloater

From bloat + -er, because they swell during preparation.

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(Canada, US) A freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes (Coregonus hoyi).


lemon shark

Negaprion brevirostris
Negaprion brevirostris#Translingual

A shark of species Negaprion brevirostris, growing up to 10 feet long and found along the Atlantic coast of North and South America.


zebra shark

A species of carpet shark, Stegostoma fasciatum, family Stegostomatidae, covered in black and white stripes.


midshipman fish

midshipman fish (plural midshipman fish or midshipman fishes)

midshipman fish (plural)
midshipman fishes (plural)

From midshipman + fish, after their prey-attracting photophores, which are said to resemble the buttons of a naval uniform.

Any species of the genus Porichthys of batrachoid toadfishes, typically nocturnal, distinguished by photophores and four lateral lines, and noted for a hum produced by males during the breeding season.


toadfish

toadfish (plural toadfish or toadfishes)

From toad + fish, in reference to their toadlike appearance.

Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.


goldeye

From gold + eye, from the fish's characteristic iris.

A North American freshwater fish of the mooneye family, Hiodon alosoides, usually eaten smoked.


Winnipeg goldeye

Winnipeg goldeye (plural Winnipeg goldeye or Winnipeg goldeyes)

Winnipeg goldeye (plural)
Winnipeg goldeyes (plural)

Originally named after Lake Winnipeg, but now associated with the city.


polyneme

Any of several tropical foodfish, of family Polynemidae, that have long filaments below the pectoral fin; the threadfins


polynemid

Any fish in the family Polynemidae: a polyneme or threadfin


abyssal fish

Any fish that lives below a depth of 2000 meters.


cunner

A marine European fish (Symphodus melops).


myctophid

From translingual Myctophidae, from Ancient Greek μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nose”) + ὄφις (óphis, “serpent”).

The astronesthes, or 'eater of the stars,' so called because it feeds entirely upon other 'star-lit' fish called myctophids, is not only endowed with a number of small, luminous organs upon its body, but its fins, and the greater part of its chin-barbels, also emit a bright light.

1933, Walter Sydney Berridge, All about Fish and Other Denizens of the Seas & Rivers, page 67:

You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--

2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:

Any of the small deep-sea fish of the large family Myctophidae, known for their conspicuous use of bioluminescence.


haked

From Middle English *haket, from Old English hacod, hæċed (“pike, mullet”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakud, *hakid (“pike”).

(Now chiefly dialectal) The pike (fish).


miller's thumb

[I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.

1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1:

European bullhead
European bullhead#English

The European bullhead (“a species of fish, Cottus gobio”).


kabeljou

Borrowed from Afrikaans kabeljou, from Dutch kabeljauw (“cod”).

(South Africa) A type of fish from southern Africa, Argyrosomus coronus.

not to be confused with the squaretail kob


wahoo

Perhaps from Wahoo, an obsolete spelling of Oahu, where the fish is found.

Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.


tarakihi

/ˈtɐɹɘˌkiːhiː/

A fish, Nemadactylus macropterus, between 30 and 60 centimeters long and found off the coast of Australia and South America.


snig

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz; related to snail.

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


sterlet

A smaller, common Eurasian sturgeon, of the species Acipenser ruthenus.


butterflyfish

butterflyfish (plural butterflyfishes or butterflyfish)

butterflyfishes (plural)
butterflyfish (plural)

From butterfly + fish, from their bright colours.

Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm (c.7-9 in) in length.


discus fish

discus fish (plural discus fish or discus fishes)

discus fish (plural)
discus fishes (plural)

Any of three cichlid fish species from the genus Symphysodon, popular as aquarium fishes.


morid

(zoology) Any member of the Moridae family of fish.


basslet

Any of several small, colourful fish, of the family Grammatidae, popular in aquaria


four-eyed fish

four-eyed fish (plural four-eyed fishes)

A member of a genus Anableps of fish in the family Anablepidae having eyes raised above the top of the head and divided in two different parts, so that they can see below and above the water surface at the same time.


croaker

A fish in the family Sciaenidae, known for the throbbing sounds it makes.


yellow perch

yellow perch (plural yellow perch or yellow perches)

yellow perch (plural)
yellow perches (plural)

Perca flavescens
Perca flavescens#Translingual

A species of perch found in North America, Perca flavescens, having a more yellowy colour than other species of perch.


northern cavefish

northern cavefish (plural northern cavefish)


stripey

(Australia) A marine fish found from Australia to Hawaii and Japan, Microcanthus strigosus, which is sometimes kept in aquaria.

Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae.


whalefish

whalefish (plural whalefishes or whalefish)

From whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur.

Any fish of the order Cetomimiformes of deepwater ray-finned fish.


whale catfish

Any fish of the family Cetopsidae of catfishes.


lant

Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).


jackass morwong

jackass morwong (plural jackass morwongs)


prickleback

Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae.


guitarfish

guitarfish (plural guitarfish or guitarfishes)

guitarfish (plural)
guitarfishes (plural)

From guitar + fish, from its body shape.


mudfish

Channa striata
Channa striata#Translingual

Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, of numerous species, including:


killifish

killifish (plural killifishes or killifish)

From killie (“killifish”, perhaps from kill (“channel, creek”)) or kill, + fish.

Any of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontiformes order of ray-finned fish.

Valenciidae

families in Cyprinodontiformes with species called killifish


anemonefish

anemonefish (plural anemonefishes or anemonefish)

anemonefishes (plural)
anemonefish (plural)

From anemone + fish, due to the species' symbiotic relationship with sea anemones.

Any of the clownfish, principally in the Amphiprion genus.


archerfish

archerfish (plural archerfishes or archerfish)

archerfishes (plural)
archerfish (plural)

Any of the species of fish in the family Toxotidae (usually with sole genus Toxotes), who prey on small animals near to the surface of a water by shooting them with water from their mouths.


mullid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Mullidae, the goatfish or red mullets.


notothen

(biology) Any fish of the family Nototheniidae of cod icefishes.


icefish

en-verb

icefish (third-person singular simple present icefishes, present participle icefishing, simple past and past participle icefished)

icefishes (present singular third-person)
icefishing (participle present)
icefished (participle past)
icefished (past)


bottlenose

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From bottle + nose. The creatures have a bottle-shaped nose.


ray-finned

(of fish) In the Actinopterygii taxonomic class of fish, all having in common lepidotrichia (a kind of fin made of webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines).


damselfish

en-noun

damselfish (plural damselfishes or damselfish)

damselfishes (plural)
damselfish (plural)


kutum

A freshwater fish (Rutilus kutum) native to the Caspian Sea.


sarcopterygian

[…] actinopterygians have 'ray fins' which are supported by a series of narrow cartilaginous or bony rods called radials, while sarcopterygians have 'lobe fins' supported by a single basal bone and with muscles that can modify the posture of the fin.

1997, Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Palaeontology, 2nd edition, Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 64:

Many sarcopterygians have a lung as a respiratory organ.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 63:

(biology) Any lobe-finned fish of the class Sarcopterygii, including the lungfish and coelacanths.


cleaner fish

cleaner fish (plural cleaner fishes or cleaner fish)

cleaner fishes (plural)
cleaner fish (plural)

(zoology) Any of many unrelated fishes that provide a service to other fish species by removing dead skin and parasites.


cucumber fish

cucumber fish (plural cucumber fishes or cucumber fish)

cucumber fishes (plural)
cucumber fish (plural)

Any fish of the Australian family Paraulopidae, especially Paraulopus nigripinnis.


mooneye

From moon + eye, from the silvery luster of the eyes.

A primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae.


bergylt

Sebastes norvegicus
Sebastes norvegicus#Translingual

A rose fish (Sebastes norvegicus), an edible red fish of the North Atlantic.


trumpetfish

trumpetfish (plural trumpetfish or trumpetfishes)

trumpetfish (plural)
trumpetfishes (plural)

Any of the fish in the family Aulostomidae family of tube-shaped fish.

A longspine snipefish, Macroramphosus scolopax.


butterfish

butterfish (plural butterfish or butterfishes)

butterfish (plural)
butterfishes (plural)

Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially

Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.

A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.

The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.

(obsolete) The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis http://www.fishbase.org/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=6308&SynCode=26048&GenusName=Maccullochella&SpeciesName=macquariensis, http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Maccullochella-macquariensis.html.


barse

From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at bass (“fish”).

inh

The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.


humpback salmon

en-noun

humpback salmon (plural humpback salmons or humpback salmon)

humpback salmons (plural)
humpback salmon (plural)

The six species of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus) are Chinook (king), Coho (silver), Sockeye (red), Chum (dog), Pink (humpback or humpy), and Cherry.

2012, C. Pierce, Education in the Age of Biocapitalism, →ISBN:

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha#Translingual

a small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), which ascends Pacific coast rivers of Asia and of America from California to Alaska.


hogfish

Lachnolaimus maximus, an edible species of wrasse, found in the Caribbean.

Percina caprodes, an American freshwater fish, the log perch, rockfish, a kind of darter.

The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.

1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).

A pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, ranging from Massachusetts to Texas.


mosquitofish

mosquitofish (plural mosquitofishes or mosquitofish)

mosquitofishes (plural)
mosquitofish (plural)

Any of several small fish that feed on mosquitoes, but especially those of the genus Gambusia.


boohoo

(colloquial) used to represent the noise of someone crying.


spawner

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(fishing) A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn


rockfish

rockfish (countable and uncountable, plural rockfish or rockfishes)

Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically:

A fish in the family Sebastidae, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world

A striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America


powan

Coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.


elpistostegid

The recently discovered elpistostegid Tiktaalik probably already had a pair of fins, which could function like vertebrate limbs in shallow waters.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 64:

(paleontology) Any lobe-finned fish of the extinct family †Elpistostegidae, from the late Devonian period.


pipefish

pipefish (plural pipefishes or pipefish)

A small fish of subfamily Syngnathinae in the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.


dark sleeper

In these species the eggs are defended most strongly, and feeding territories have also been reported for some of them (the dark sleeper and the common freshwater goby).

1980, Jiro Kikkawa, Comparative Ecology, translation of original by Yoshiaki Ito, →ISBN, page 218:

Odontobutis obscura, a freshwater goby found in East Asia


needlefish

needlefish (plural needlefish or needlefishes)

needlefish (plural)
needlefishes (plural)

Slender fish, in the family Belonidae, usually found in shallow marine habitats.


hackleback

They served crackers with hackleback caviar.

A small North American sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, the roe of which is harvested for caviar


salmonid

But commercial fishing and the construction of dams over the last two centuries have contributed to the decline of wild salmonids by 95 percent.

2019 December 11, Priyanka Runwal, “A Silicon Valley Disruption for Birds That Gorge on Endangered Fish”, in The New York Times:


striper

I caught a striper today.

(fishing) The striped bass, Morone saxatilis, a popular sport fish native to North America.


boxfish

Any of the family Ostraciidae of often colorful, squared, bony fishes.


cockup

Lates calcarifer
Lates calcarifer#Translingual

A large edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer)


cowfish

Common bottlenose dolphin
Ostraciidae
Risso's dolphin
Scrawled cowfish

A marine plectognath fish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species, having two projections, like horns, in front.


aimara

From a native name; said by Century to be Tupi, but perhaps in fact Cariban: contrast Emerillon taɾeʔiɾ (“aïmara”) with Trió aimara (“anjumara”).

Release of fishing pressure after a 25 year period (Fig. 40) revealed that aimara increased rapidly becoming the dominant species, and that pavon declined drastically as aimara became abundant. Payara showed a slight increase ...

1989, Ana Beatriz Locci Hernandez, Comparative Study of the Response of Simulated Temperate and Tropical Fish Communities to Fishery Exploitation and Environmental Variability:

Abak Ekwa means “the land of many avocado trees”; Haimara Ekwa means “the land of many aimara fish” (Hoplias aimara).

2018, Stuart Kirsch, Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 246:

A South American freshwater river fish, Hoplias aimara.


hogsucker

Hypentelium nigricans, a species of fish found throughout the Mississippi river basin, growing up to two feet in length.


redhorse

From red + horse. So named because of the red fins on many species, although the animal's similarity to a horse is unclear.

Another thing: most native Ozarkers actually prefer suckers to either bass or trout, and will regularly pass up game fish in order to strike at a big redhorse or hogmolly!

2017, Vance Randolph, Robert Cochran, The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society, page 235:

Any of various ray-finned fish in the genus Moxostoma.


sac-a-lait

From Choctaw sakli (“trout”), via Cajun French, which reinterpreted it as sac (“sack”) (à (“of”)) lait (“milk”), ultimately from Proto-Muskogean *¢akliCo (“trout”).

(Louisiana dialect) A white crappie (Pomoxis annularis).


acanthodian

The emerging picture of acanthodian (and perhaps placoderm) paraphyly does not overturn a general consensus about gnathostome interrelationships.

2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436

(zoology) A member of a group of extinct fish (Acanthodii) that existed from the Silurian to the Permian period.


arthrodire

The basicranial circulation of Ptomacanthus resembles that in arthrodire placoderms.

(zoology) Any member of the extinct order Arthrodira, armored jawed fishes that flourished in the Devonian period.


medaka

[…] report oscillating patterns in the rate of genetic variation around the start sites of transcription in the medaka (Japanese killifish, Oryzias latipes ) genome.

2009 January 16, Colin A. M. Semple, Martin S. Taylor, “MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: The Structure of Change”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912:

Similar to the findings in medaka, fathead minnows treated with an intermediate concentration (10ng/L) of EE2 [18] in the ambient water at various timeranges throughout development did not result in sexreversal.^([sic])

2009, Daniel Dietrich, Heiko O. Krieger, Histological Analysis of Endocrine Disruptive Effects in Small Laboratory Fish, page 47:

Much of the research directed toward developing this technology has been done using model fish species such as medaka (Wakamatsu et al. 1994; Hong et al. 1996) and zebrafish (Sun et al. 1995; Ma et al. 2001; Kurita and Sakai 2004).

2012, Ten-Tsao Wong, Paul Collodi, “Chapter 12: Application of Fish Stem Cell Technology to Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology”, in Garth L. Fletcher, Matthew L. Rise, editors, Aquaculture Biotechnology, page 193:

Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums.


maasbanker

Trachurus trachurus
Trachurus trachurus#Translingual

(South Africa) A species of edible mackerel (Trachurus trachurus).


mackerel shark

nictitating membrane
nictitating membrane

Any shark of the order Lamniformes, having two dorsal fins an anal fin, five gill slits and eyes without nictitating membrane


macrourid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Macrouridae; a rattail.


rattail

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rattail.wav

From rat + tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblance to the tail of a rat.

In the North Atlantic, Russians pioneered the harvesting of rattails, a ubiquitous deep fish with big eyes and a long tail that swishes back and forth in a sinuous motion.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

en:ray-finned fish of family Macrouridae

Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.


hamachi

Over an elaborate lunch — kimchi and other pickled vegetables, East and West Coast oysters, pork and shitake mushroom buns, noodle soups and hamachi with beet purée — he and Mr. McCarthy discussed their attempts to sidestep the clichés of postpunk stardom while still making a record people could dance, and debauch themselves, to.

2009 January 27, Melena Ryzik, “A Band Moves Away From the Style It Helped Make Mainstream”, in New York Times:

Japanese amberjack, Pacific yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata).


Japanese amberjack

Japanese amberjack (plural Japanese amberjacks or Japanese amberjack)

Japanese amberjacks (plural)
Japanese amberjack (plural)

Pacific yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata)


common whitefish

common whitefish (plural common whitefish)

Coregonus lavaretus
Coregonus lavaretus#Translingual

A freshwater fish of salmon family, Coregonus lavaretus.


galloper

(Australia) The Chinamanfish, a type of snapper


dipnoan

(zoology) Any fish of the subclass Dipnoi, the lungfish, (including the closest living relatives to the ancestor of the tetrapods).


elopomorph

(ichthyology) Any of fish of the superorder Elopomorpha, including bonefish, tarpon, and many eels and eel-like fish.


toothfish

toothfish (plural toothfishes or toothfish)

Either of the two fish species of the genus Dissostichus.


tiddler

(British, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.


steelhead

steelhead (plural steelheads or steelhead)


milkfish

milkfish (countable and uncountable, plural milkfishes or milkfish)

Its fare is a mix of fast-food staples like burgers and Chickenjoy, along with more regional dishes like smoked bangus, or milkfish — a national symbol of the Philippines — served with vinegar and pepper.

2009 February 15, Mark Foggin, “Fast Food for the Filipino Soul”, in New York Times:

The Taiwanese milkfish industry has faced troubles in recent years, and in 2011 a state-owned PRC firm placed an order for the fish from the town of Syuejia (Xuejia) in Tainan County.

2016, Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, “Winning Hearts and Minds? On the Sources and Efficacy of Economic Engagement Policies in US-China and China-Taiwan Relations”, in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman, editors, The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 159–160:

Chanos chanos
Chanos chanos#Translingual

Chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.


tautog

Borrowed from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut.

The fish he found were nothing unusual: cunner and tautog, small fish generally found around pilings or rocky shores, and one weakfish.

2007 August 22, Ellen Barry, James Estrin, “Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs”, in New York Times:

A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis).


lamper

One who takes part in lamping, or hunting with bright lights.


false trevally

false trevally (plural false trevallies)

A fish of the species Lactarius lactarius.


cetomimid

(zoology) Any whalefish of the family Cetomimidae.


megalomycterid

Any of several largenose fish of the family Megalomycteridae which were shown in 2009 to be males of whalefish in the family Cetomimidae.

mirapinnid

the larval forms, also once thought to be a separate family


mirapinnid

(zoology) Any of several genera of deep-sea fish of the family Mirapinnidae, now known to be the larval forms of whalefish in the family Cetomimidae.

megalomycterid

the male forms, also once thought to be a separate family


grasser

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-grasser.wav

This grasser had to be pushing 45-50 lb.

2003 June 30, David Lee, “Flathead Frenzy”, in alt.fishing.catfish (Usenet):

Obviously if you see a grasser eat something–a bee, wasp, or mayfly–go that way fast!

2021, Drew Ross, “Pro Tips: How to Catch Grass Carp on the Fly”, in Orvis.com, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

2021, TexasRoughFishing, “Just a grasser! Caught on bread from a park pond in Windsor, Colorado.”, in Reddit.com, archived from the original on 2021-11-04

(recreational fishing) A grass carp; a white amur.


gaspereau

gaspereau (plural gaspereaus or gaspereaux)

From French gaspereau, a variant of gaspareau.

(Canada, dated) An alewife (type of fish).


billard

(obsolete) A coalfish, especially a young one.


frogfish

frogfish (plural frogfishes or frogfish)

Any of several benthic anglerfish, of the family Antennariidae, having a frog-like mouth with a lure.

2016 October 22, Frogfish turns ghostly white to match a bleached coral, New Scientist, Issue 3096, page 15,
Warty frogfish are sedentary seafloor dwellers that can change colour over a few weeks. […] Since the warm waters off the Maldives abound in vibrantly coloured corals, the frogfish there typically sport matching orange or pinkish hues, says Gabriel Grimsditch of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Maldives in Malé.

Any of the benthic ray-finned fish of the family Batrachoididae (the sole family of order Batrachoidiformes), which are ambush predators and have a toad-like appearance.


antiarch

(zoology) Any of a group of extinct placoderms of the order Antiarchi


arthrodiran

(zoology) Any of a group of extinct fish of the order Arthrodira.


carcharhiniform

(zoology) Any ground shark of the order Carcharhiniformes.


elasmobranch

Any of many cartilaginous fish of the subclass Elasmobranchii.


holocephalan

(zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; a chimera.


mako

Borrowed from Maori makō (“shark”), a Southern Maori dialect form of the more standard mangō (“shark”).


phyllolepid

(zoology) Any extinct placoderm of the order †Phyllolepida.


tilefish

tilefish (plural tilefish or tilefishes)

The federal Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency advise women and children to avoid king mackerel, shark, swordfish and tilefish, and limit their consumption of some tuna.

2008 January 30, Nick Fox, “Taking Worry Off the Plate”, in New York Times:

Any of the mostly small, perciform marine fish in the family Malacanthidae; an important food fish.


ptyctodont

Any placoderm of the order Ptyctodontida


ptyctodontid

Any placoderm of the order Ptyctodontida.


ladyfish

ladyfish (plural ladyfishes or ladyfish)

Eventually we yielded to the urge to catch something — anything — so we sought out a channel where we boated seatrout, ladyfish and one lizard fish.

2008 March 5, Norm Zeigler, “Seeking Florida Redfish, Catching Only Glimpses”, in New York Times:

A coastal dwelling fish (Elops saurus), found throughout the tropical and sub-tropical regions.


ratfish

A fish of any of the species in family Chimaeridae.

A Pacific fish, Hydrolagus colliei, that has a long rat-like tail


seawolf

From Middle English sēwolf, from Old English *sǣwulf, equivalent to sea + wolf.

Anarhichas lupus
Anarhichas lupus#Translingual

A strong-jawed North Atlantic fish of wolffish family Anarhichadidae, Anarhichas lupus.


teleostean

Any of very many ray-finned fish of the infraclass Teleostei.


telescopefish

telescopefish (plural telescopefishes or telescopefish)

telescopefishes (plural)
telescopefish (plural)

Any of several deep-sea aulopiform fish, of the family Giganturidae, having tubular eyes.


aulopiform

Any of many fish of the order Aulopiformes.


barracouta

(Australia, New Zealand) The snoek, Thyrsites atun, a foodfish.


clupeid

The open water expanses of the lake have been occupied mainly by two species of clupeids, as well as by Eutropius niloticus and Physailia pellucida.

1973, Willis A. Evans, John Vanderpuye, “Early Development of Fish Populations and Fisheries of Volta Lake”, in William C. Ackermann, Gilbert F. White, E. B. Worthington, editors, Man-Made Lakes: Their Problems and Environmental Effects, page 117:

In the pelagic zone of Lake Tanganyika, the endemic clupeids are planktivores which migrate surfacewards at night (cf. marine clupeids, p. 227).

1987, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities, page 90:

Although most marine fishes studied thus far cannot detect sound frequencies above about 500 Hz, at least some clupeids can detect considerably higher frequencies.

2008, Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, Brian W. Bowen, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, page 80:

Any of many soft-finned fish of the family Clupeidae.


cypriniform

Any of many ray-finned fish, of the order Cypriniformes, such as the carps, minnows and loaches


maomao

A number of different fish of the Pacific Ocean

Abudefduf abdominalis (green damselfish)


scorpaeniform

Any fish of the former order Scorpaeniformes or of suborder Scorpaenoidei.


splake

A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout


hammerhead shark

hammerhead shark (plural hammerhead sharks)

Eusphyra blochii
Eusphyra blochii#Translingual


winghead shark

The fast-declining winghead shark – a species of hammerhead – has also proved vulnerable to unregulated fishing, due to its distinctive shape which lends itself to entanglement in fishing nets.

2016 July 8, Arthur Nelsen, The Guardian:

A species of hammerhead shark, Eusphyra blochii, in the family Sphyrnidae, named for the remarkably wide lobes on its head. It is the sole species in its genus.


ram cichlid

Mikrogeophagus ramirezi
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi#Translingual

Mikrogeophagus ramirezi, a species of freshwater fish endemic to the Orinoco River basin


matjes herring

matjes herring (plural matjes herrings or matjes herring)

matjes herrings (plural)
matjes herring (plural)

From Dutch maatjesharing (“matjes herring”), from maatjes (“young, small”) + haring (“herring”), from earlier forms maetgens-, maeghdekins-, medykens- (“maiden-like”), from maagd (“maiden”) + -kin (“-kin”), so called because matjes herring is made of young herring that has never spawned.

Young filleted herring that has been matured for a short time in brine and prepared traditionally with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.


tigerfish

tigerfish (plural tigerfishes or tigerfish)

Any of a number of species of fish with stripes on their bodies, otherwise fearsome appearance, or aggressive predatory behavior, including, among others:

(Africa) Any fish in the genus Hydrocynus of characins.

Any fish in the percoid genus Datnioides.

Any of the genus Pterois of east Asian lionfishes.


bangda

Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.

2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times:

A fish of the species Rastrelliger kanagurta.


bombil

The lizardfish (Harpadon nehereus), the Bombay duck, or bummalo, native to the Arabian Sea.


lizardfish

lizardfish (plural lizardfishes or lizardfish)

lizardfishes (plural)
lizardfish (plural)

Any member of the family Synodontidae of aulopiform fish.


flatty

From flat + -y.
(policeman): From flatfoot.


scorpionfish

scorpionfish (plural scorpionfish or scorpionfishes)

scorpionfish (plural)
scorpionfishes (plural)

Any of the family Scorpaenidae of mostly marine fish, including many of the world's most venomous species, the "sting" taking the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus.


rock salmon

(British) The flesh of any of several species of small sharks.


huss

A lot of people on this board think Western whites can't end up HSTS, but they just lack an imagination. Grew up in the Appalachians? Probable huss. Irish/Italian Northeastern Catholic family? Again, probable huss.

2022 September 22, anonymous author, /lgbt/ (4chan), archived from the original on 2024-06-25:

You're a huss because you date ftms

2022 December 29, anonymous author, /lgbt/ (4chan), archived from the original on 2024-06-25:

I'm a huss, vaginas make me throw up unironically

2023 October 18, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

(4chan /lgbt/ slang) Alternative form of husstuss (“A transgender woman who is sexually attracted to men”)


noodlefish

noodlefish (plural noodlefishes or noodlefish)

noodlefishes (plural)
noodlefish (plural)

Any of the family Salangidae of osmeriform fish, related to the smelts, with translucent bodies and no scales.


spookfish

spookfish (plural spookfishes or spookfish)


barreleye

A small, deep-sea osmeriform fish of the family Opisthoproctidae, with barrel-shaped, tubular eyes which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey.


panchax

Any of various tropical fish in the cyprinodontiform families Aplocheilidae and Nothobranchiidae which were formerly classified in the genus Panchax.


selachian

From the (disused) genus name Selache, from Latin selachē, from the plural of Ancient Greek σέλαχος (sélakhos, “shark”).

der

However, some selachians enter freshwater and a few, like the stingray Paratrygon motoro, are even restricted to freshwater.

1999, William C Hamlett, editor, Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes, page 300:

(zoology) Any organism of the superorder Selachimorpha or subclass Elasmobranchii; an extant shark (or related species).


saury

From Latin saurus, from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.

Pacific saury

Cololabis saira. Scomberesox scombroides


cascadura

Any of the armoured freshwater catfish of the genus Hoplosternum (syn. Cascadura).


sevruga

en-noun

sevruga (countable and uncountable, plural sevrugas)

stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus).


beardy

Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.

1864, John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, page 180:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.


blennioid

Any member of the true blennies of the suborder Blennioidei.


triplefin

Any of approximately 150 blennioid species of the family Tripterygiidae, found in tropical and temperate waters, whose dorsal fin is separated into three parts, two of them spinous.


rough fish

rough fish (usually uncountable, plural rough fish or rough fishes)

rough fish (plural)
rough fishes (plural)

Any fish not considered valuable as sport fish nor used as bait or for food.

roskakala

fish regarded as having no value to humans


bony fish

bony fish (plural bony fishes or bony fish)

A fish of the taxonomic superclass Osteichthyes.


oilfish

A snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus), having a high content of wax esters instead of glyceride oils.


megamouth shark

megamouth shark (plural megamouth sharks)

A rare species of deepwater shark, Megachasma pelagios, a filter-feeder, swimming with its large mouth wide open to capture plankton and jellyfish.

tangoytangoy

Megachasma pelagios, a rare deepwater shark


wormfish

wormfish (plural wormfishes or wormfish)

Any of the family Microdesmidae of small goby-like fish which often burrow in estuarine mud.


sheepshead

sheepshead (countable and uncountable, plural sheepsheads or sheepshead)

sheepsheads (plural)
sheepshead (plural)

(countable) A fish of the species Archosargus probatocephalus.


sabalo

Fish of various species in the genus Brycon, native to northern South America.


ribaldo

Mora moro, the common mora, a deep-sea cod-like fish.


goldie

Incredibly, the reactions of the dogs differed between the instances. […] "It's the pursed lips that do it for me," said another comment: "My goldie used to do the same."

2022 July 5, Alice Gibbs, “Golden Retriever's Reaction to Missing Snack Time Delights Internet”, in Newsweek:

Something which is golden in color.
(informal) A Golden Retriever.

Something which is golden in color.
A Golden Retriever.


European hake

Merluccius merluccius
Merluccius merluccius#Translingual

A species of sea fish, Merluccius merluccius.


saibling

From German Saibling, etymologically equivalent to salmon + -ling.

Salvelinus alpinus
Salvelinus alpinus#Translingual

A char of Europe (Salvelinus alpinus), also called Arctic char.


moonfish

moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)

From moon + fish, from the silvery color, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.

риба-луна

any of various flat, oval marine fish species

Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.

The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.


alose

Borrowed from French alose, from Latin alausa, from unattested Gaulish *alausa. Cognate with German Alse.

Any of certain shad
American shad (Alosa sapidissima).


sailor's-choice

Any of several grunts and sparids of the Atlantic:

Haemulon album
Haemulon album#Translingual


saithe

From Old Norse seiðr; compare Norwegian sei and Swedish and Danish sej.

Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens#Translingual

The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens).


gadiform

Belonging to the order Gadiformes of ray-finned fish.


moki

(New Zealand) A trumpeter fish, of the genus Latridopsis.


jackfish

jackfish (plural jackfishes or jackfish)

A jack (in any of the senses referring to types of fish).


bottlenose skate

bottlenose skate (plural bottlenose skates)

Rostroraja alba, a benthic skate native to the coastal eastern Atlantic Ocean, now endangered through overfishing.


rainbow runner

Rainbow runners are fished for food and sport in warm waters.

(zoology) The marine fish species Elagatis bipinnulata, which is brilliantly striped yellow and blue


Sevan trout

Salmo ischchan
Salmo ischchan#Translingual

A highly-valued endangered species of freshwater trout, Salmo ischchan, that is native only to Sevan, a mountain lake in Armenia.


butterfly ray

A ray (fish) of the family Gymnuridae (or, in some systems, the subfamily Gymnurinae).


copper moki

A trumpeter fish of the species Latridopsis forsteri


bastard trumpeter

bastard trumpeter (plural bastard trumpeters)

A trumpeter (fish) of the species Latridopsis forsteri


feeder fish

Certain types of inexpensive fish commonly fed as live prey to captive animals, such as sharks and turtles.


mormyrid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Mormyridae of freshwater elephantfish.


sea bass

sea bass (plural sea bass or sea basses)

Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, in several families in order Perciformes


yellowtail amberjack

yellowtail amberjack (plural yellowtail amberjacks)

Seriola lalandi
Seriola lalandi#Translingual

A species of large edible fish, Seriola lalandi, found in the Indian and Pacific oceans.


splitfin

Any fish in the serranid genus Luzonichthys


opah

From Igbo uba. Earliest attestation in English is the Royal Society’s 1752 Philosophical Transactions, 1749–50 (vol. 46, p. 519): “The black Prince, and his Cousin, from Anamaboe on the Coast of Guinea, and Mr. Creighton, formerly Governor of Capo Corso Castle, upon seeing this Fish immediately knew it, and said it was common on that Coast … The Natives call it Opah, and the English there call it the King-fish”

2003, Margaret M. Smith, Phillip C. Heemstra (editors), Smiths' Sea Fishes (Revision of 1977, James Leonard Brierley Smith, The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa), page 398,
A member of the lower epipelagic community, the opah feeds on squid and fishes (including some benthic species) and is usually found well offshore.

For a long time, opah has been thought to be good luck so it was only given away, never sold. Opah is a nonschooling open-ocean fish so it's not caught in great quantities.

2006, Sharon Hamblin, Adventure Guide Maui, page 36:

Opah is an extraordinary-looking ocean fish, with an almost perfectly round shape; a comparatively thin, flat profile; a silvery skin, and bright crimson fins.

2013, Roy Yamaguchi, John Harrisson, Roy's Fish and Seafood: Recipes from the Pacific Rim, page 77:

Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae.


stomiid

Since stomiids are sensitive to the far-red bioluminescence produced by their suborbital photophores, which other animals in the deep sea cannot see, they have what could be regarded as a private waveband.

2001, Friedrich G. Barth, Ecology of Sensing:

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Stomiidae of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, stareaters, and loosejaws.


keeling

Compare Icelandic keila, Swedish kolja, Danish kulle.

(archaic, Scotland) A cod, especially a small one.


barndoor skate

Some are particularly rich in biodiversity; others support fish nurseries or contain rare or fragile species like barndoor skates and corals.

1999 April 9, Karin Jegalian, “FISHERY MANAGEMENT:Plan Would Protect New England Coast”, in Science, volume 284, number 5412, →DOI:

Dipturus laevis, one of the largest skates, native to the northwestern Atlantic


surmullet

From French surmulet, from Middle French sormulet, from sor (“reddish brown”) + mulet (“mullet”).


oily bitterling

oily bitterling (plural oily bitterlings)

A temperate freshwater fish, Tanakia limbata, of the family Cyprinidae, that is found in central and southwestern Japan.


spotted dragonet

spotted dragonet (plural spotted dragonets)

A fish of the species Callionymus maculatus.


dragonet

Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.


electric catfish

electric catfish (plural electric catfishes or electric catfish)

electric catfishes (plural)
electric catfish (plural)

Any catfish of the family Malapteruridae (order Siluriformes).


gourami

From French gourami, from Malay gurami, from Javanese ꦒꦸꦫꦩꦶ (gurami).

An edible freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae.


squirrelfish

squirrelfish (plural squirrelfishes or squirrelfish)

squirrelfishes (plural)
squirrelfish (plural)

Any member of the subfamily Holocentrinae of the family Holocentridae of ray-finned fish.


soldierfish

soldierfish (plural soldierfishes or soldierfish)

soldierfishes (plural)
soldierfish (plural)

Any member of the subfamily Myripristinae of the family Holocentridae of ray-finned fish.


merlucciid

(zoology) Any member of the family Merlucciidae of codlike fishes, including most hakes.


torgoch

Welsh, from tor (“belly”) + coch (“red”), from Latin coccum (“kermes berry, scarlet”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “scarletberry”)


warehou

(New Zealand) Any of the three medusafishes Seriolella brama (the common warehou), Seriolella caerulea (the white warehou), and Seriolella punctata (the silver warehou).


medusafish

en-noun

medusafish (plural medusafishes or medusafish)

medusafishes (plural)
medusafish (plural)

Any of the family Centrolophidae of perciform fish, often found in association with jellyfish.


nelma

Stenodus nelma
Wikispecies:Stenodus nelma


jewelfish

jewelfish (plural jewelfishes or jewelfish)

Any fish in the genus Hemichromis, native to Africa.


ricefish

ricefish (plural ricefishes or ricefish)

(US) A freshwater fish of the southeastern United States, Chologaster cornuta


lampern

From Middle English laumproun, adopted from Old French lampreon, diminutive of lampreie (“lamprey”).

[…]if thou woldest an eel or a laumprun holde with streite hondis, how myche strengerli thou thristis, so myche the sunnere it shal sliden awey.

1382, Wyclif's Bible, prologue to Job, page 671:

LAmprayes or Lampurnes bee partly of the nature of Eeles[…].

1589, Thomas Coghan, Haven of Health, published 1636, page 165:

The Lampern is called Petromyzon Fluviatilis, becauſe this fiſh at certain ſeaſons goes to the ſea.

1799, John Price, The Worcester Guide, page 55:

The Lampern, Lampetra fluviatilis, is white, with greenish back; it reaches a length of sixteen inches.

1936, Charles Tate Regan, Natural History, Ward Lock, page 194:

Lampetra fluviatilis (the lampern or river lamprey) undergoes a spawning migration in British rivers during the period between November and February, after which the animals spend from 4 to 6 months in fresh water prior to spawning.

1956, R. Morris, “The Osmoregulatory Ability of the Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis L.) in Sea Water during the Course of Its Spawning Migration”, in Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 33, page 235:

European river lamprey
European river lamprey

European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis).


agnathan

/ˈæɡ.nə.θən/

From Agnatha, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”).

Haikouichthys is one of three species of jawless (or agnathan) fish to be found in the Early Cambrian period.

2005, Tim Haines, Paul Chambers, The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life, BBC Books, page 20:

(zoology) Belonging or pertaining to the superclass Agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.


agnath

Evolution of vertebrates was accompanied by a gradual increase in oxygen availability, from the irrespirable atmosphere of the Precambrian to a PO₂ at 7 mmHg with the first vertebrates (agnaths), to the present sea level PO₂ value of 160 mmHg with the first reptiles.

1979, Stephen C. Wood, Evolution of Respiratory Processes, Marcel Dekker,, →ISBN, page 218:

The gnathostomes almost entirely replaced the agnaths, presumably because they were more effective fishes.

1996, George Christopher Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection, Princeton University Press,, →ISBN, page 51:

Thus, although tunicates are presumably intermediate between flatworms and agnaths, the larval tunicate more closely resembles the flatworm and adult agnath.

2002, Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 113:


electric ray

Any of the group of rays of the order Torpedodiniformes, which can produce an electric discharge.


shote

The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt

1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:

Thymallus thymallus
Thymallus thymallus#Translingual

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).


requiem shark

Any member of the taxonomic family Carcharhinidae (order Carcharhiniformes).


Atlantic salmon

Atlantic salmon (plural Atlantic salmons or Atlantic salmon)

Atlantic salmons (plural)
Atlantic salmon (plural)

A species of fish of the Salmonidae family, Salmo salar.


European pollock

European pollock (plural European pollocks or European pollock)

European pollocks (plural)
European pollock (plural)

Pollachius pollachius
Pollachius pollachius#Translingual

Fish of the species Pollachius pollachius, which live in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly off the coast of Norway and the United Kingdom.


Atlantic pollock

Atlantic pollock (plural Atlantic pollocks or Atlantic pollock)

Atlantic pollocks (plural)
Atlantic pollock (plural)

European pollock, Pollachius pollachius.


galaxiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere.


silure

From Latin silurus (“a sort of river fish”), from Ancient Greek σίλουρος (sílouros, “a very large sort of river fish”).

der

A fish of the genus Silurus, such as the sheatfish.


oranda

A goldfish characterized by a prominent raspberry-like hood encasing its head.


roussette

French, in allusion to the color. See russet.

Any Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger, syn. Pteropus vulgaris) inhabiting islands of the Indian Ocean.

Any of certain fruit bats:
Any flying fox of genus Rousettus.

Any small shark of the genus Scylliorhinus (syn. Scyllium); a dogfish.


lodde

1813, Leopold von Buch (Freiherr), Travels through Norway and Lapland
We were actually told that when the lodde enters from the sea, the fishermen smell them at a distance of ten English miles, and immediately set off in their boats in quest of them.


blacktip

Any of various fish having black-colored tips.


catshark

Any of the sharks in the family Scyliorhinidae


weever

From Middle English *wever, from Old Northern French wivre (“serpent”), from Latin vīpera. Doublet of wyvern and viper.

Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past.


blobfish

en-noun

blobfish (plural blobfishes or blobfish)

Psychrolutes marcidus
Psychrolutes marcidus#Translingual

Psychrolutes marcidus, a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania.


dentex

Borrowed from translingual Dentex, from Latin dentex, from Latin dēns (“tooth”). Further from Proto-Italic *dents and Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.

(ichthyology) Any member of the genus Dentex of perciform fish.


sleepy cod

Oxyeleotris lineolata, a medium-sized freshwater fish native to tropical regions of northern Australia.


fanskate

Any of various fish of the genus Sympterygia.


bignose

Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large nose.


shortfin

Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by short fins.


longfin

Any member of the family Plesiopidae of elongated perciform fish.


unicornfish

unicornfish (plural unicornfishes or unicornfish)

unicornfishes (plural)
unicornfish (plural)


rawaru

(New Zealand) A fish, the blue cod (Parapercis colias).


apogonid

Any of the family Apogonidae of large-headed, marine, percoid fishes with oblong and compressed bodies.


porcupine puffer

porcupine puffer (plural porcupine puffers)

A pufferfish of the families Diodontidae or Tetraodontidae.


potato cod

potato cod (plural potato cod or potato cods)

potato cod (plural)
potato cods (plural)

Epinephelus tukula, a large fish found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans.


leptocephalus

From (obsolete) genus name Leptocephalus, equivalent to Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin, slim”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

der

There they spawn, and from the fertilized eggs emerge the leptocephali, which then ride on currents all the way back to Europe.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69:

The flat, transparent larva of an eel, originally thought to be a distinct species.


eelfare

(now rare) The movement of eels, especially migratory.


hornyhead chub

en-noun

hornyhead chub (plural hornyhead chubs or hornyhead chub)

hornyhead chubs (plural)
hornyhead chub (plural)

Nocomis biguttatus, a small minnow of the northern central United States and Canada.


foolfish

foolfish (plural foolfishes or foolfish)


filefish

filefish (countable and uncountable, plural filefishes or filefish)

Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.


dorse

The Baltic cod or variable cod (Gadus morhua callarias).


blowie

"I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."

2008, Shane Lindemoen, Empire Dirt, Fallen Publishing, page 91

‘I didn′t mind being groped by him,’ Crystal replied. ‘He was cute. In fact I′m looking forward to later; don′t I have to pretend to give him a blowie?’

2010, Zoe Foster, Playing the Field, Round 23: The Enchantress vs The Press, unnumbered page,
‘A brothel. Anyway, they got kicked out ′cos one of them – not Josh – took photos on his mobile of some bird giving him a blowie, and she flipped out.’


swordtail

But ongoing efforts to sequence genes from other fishes, including salmon and swordtail, will also help to test the theory, Postlethwait says.

1998 August 21, Gretchen Vogel, “EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:Doubled Genes May Explain Fish Diversity”, in Science, volume 281, number 5380, →DOI, pages 1119–1121:

One of many species of freshwater fish, in genus Xiphophorus, others of which are called platyfish.


blay

From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English blǣġe (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Germanic *blaigijǭ (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).


pin bone

A long, thin bone in a fish extending sideways from the backbone.


kingklip

From Afrikaans kingklip (“king rock fish”), from Dutch koningklipvisch.

A popular South African food fish; Genypterus capensis .


morwong

Any of various perciform fishes comprising or formerly comprising family Cheilodactylidae.


lobefin

Any of the fish of the class Sarcopterygii.


sea dragon

Any of certain fish consider to resemble dragons:

weedy sea dragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)


whalesucker

A tropical species of remora, Remora australis, that attaches exclusively to cetaceans.


wrymouth

Cryptacanthodes maculatus, a slim, eel-like fish.


sand eel

From Middle English sandeel, sandell, sandel, equivalent to sand + eel. Cognate with German Sandaal (“sand eel”), Danish sandål (“sand eel”).

In short, this means sandeels, the small, oily fish that are a staple diet for many seabirds, need to be in the right place at the right time for puffins to be able to feed their chicks.

2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian:

Any of various species of slim fish, resembling eels, especially of the family Ammodytidae.


wels

From German Wels, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

Silurus glanis
Silurus glanis#Translingual


blindfish

en-noun

blindfish (plural blindfishes or blindfish)

Any of various fish, having only rudimentary eyes, that inhabit underground waters.


fallfish

fallfish (plural fallfishes or fallfish)

A small silvery freshwater fish (Semotilus corporalis) found in North America.


billfish

billfish (plural billfishes or billfish)

silver gar (Strongylura maritima, in family Belonidae)


combfish

combfish (plural combfishes or combfish)

A comb wrasse, an Australasian wrasse (Coris picta), having a comb-like stripe.


salmonoid

The lake trout‐Lwhich need no populations of two salmonoids, lake trout and landlocked salmon.

1978 January 29, Nelson Bryant, “Wood, Field and Stream”, in The New York Times:

One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.

1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times:


broadbill

Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae (Asian and Grauer's broadbills) or Calyptomenidae (African and green broadbills).

harlekiini

bird of the family Eurylaimidae or Calyptomenidae


spadefish

spadefish (plural spadefishes or spadefish)

Any of several marine fish of the family Ephippidae


megalodon

Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek as if formed from a compound of μεγάλος (megálos, “big”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”); coined by Swiss-born American scientist Louis Agassiz in 1843 as a specific epithet. By surface analysis, megalo- + -odon.

coinage

Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139:

A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).

mégalodon

extinct shark in species of Carcharocles megalodon


bummalo

Probably modification of Marathi [script needed] (bombīlā), oblique case form of बोंबील (bombīl).

Bombay duck (flesh of the edible lizardfish)


dealfish

en-noun

dealfish (plural dealfishes or dealfish)

A deep-sea ribbonfish, Trachipterus arcticus, from the north Atlantic


ribbonfish

ribbonfish (plural ribbonfishes or ribbonfish)

ribbonfishes (plural)
ribbonfish (plural)

Any of several lampriform fish, of the family Trachipteridae, having long, ribbon-like bodies.


cornetfish

cornetfish (plural cornetfishes or cornetfish)

cornetfishes (plural)
cornetfish (plural)

Any of several slender, elongate tropical fish, of the family Fistulariidae, that live in shallow water


suckerfish

suckerfish (plural suckerfishes or suckerfish)

suckerfishes (plural)
suckerfish (plural)

Echeneis naucrates
Echeneis naucrates#Translingual

The remora and other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates.


devilfish

devilfish (plural devilfishes or devilfish)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-devilfish.wav

In the rivers of southern Mexico, a lizard-like fish with armor for skin has taken over the habitat of the native fish like róbalo and mojarra. Locals call it the pez diablo, or devil fish, and long assumed it was poisonous.

[2018 July 2, Tara Duggan, “Bay Area men’s plan to market invasive fish from Mexico hits snag in U.S.”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

But a U.S. law, aimed at protecting American catfish farmers from cheaper Asian imports, means there is effectively a ban on foreign catfish‚ including the suckermouth or devil fish, from entering the U.S.

2018 July 19, “Entrepreneurs hope to sell Mexico's 'devil fish' to Canadians as a sustainable snack”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:

Devilfish is an invasive species of the Loricariidae family native to South America of the Amazon basin, but it has been introduced in several countries, as in Mexico. Devilfish has become an environmental problem in the country, at least in the last 20 years.

2022, Flores et. al, “Evaluation of a biocoagulant from devilfish invasive species for the removal of contaminants in ceramic industry wastewater”, in Scientific Reports, volume 12, London: Nature Portfolio, →DOI, →ISSN:

In another alarm of nature spiraling to hell in Florida, scientists suspect global warming has enabled devil fish to plague and ravage the St. Johns River.

2022 December 3, Kevin Spear, “Climate change heats devil fish that possess St. Johns River”, in Orlando Sentinel, archived from the original on 2022-12-23:

(dated) Any of several not closely related marine animals:

The suckermouth catfish, Hypostomus plecostomus (translating Spanish pez diablo).

Devilfish are rather shy and difficult to approach. However, patience and perseverence^([sic]) usually pay off.

1989, Heinz-Gert de Couet, Andrew Green, The Manual of Underwater Photography, Viesbaden, Germany: Verlag Christa Hemmen, →ISBN, page 214:

Another closely related marine family, the Indo-Pacific Plesiopidae (roundheads), are well represented in Australian waters, with such familiar and brightly colored species as the hulafishes (Trachinops), devilfishes (Paraplesiops), and longfins (Plesiops).

1994, John R. Paxton, William N. Eschmeyer, Encyclopedia of Fishes, San Diego, C.A.: Academic Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 185:

Certain fish in the genus Paraplesiops; see blue devilfish, Bleeker's devilfish.