shark-infested

en-adj

shark-infested (comparative more shark-infested, superlative most shark-infested)

more shark-infested (comparative)
most shark-infested (superlative)

Then, thinking about the island, Jacquie remembered seeing Harvey the day they left. She’d just gotten on the boat, and she saw him in the water. Hardly anyone ever got in that water. It was freezing. And—everyone had been convinced—shark-infested.

2018, Tommy Orange, “Jacquie Red Feather”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 111:

The UK's fares 'system' is a shark-infested murky pool that is 'under review'.

2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 42:

(usually of coastal waters) Having many sharks in the area, and therefore considered dangerous for swimmers, etc.


pineapplefish

A monocentrid fish, Cleidopus gloriamaris.


mangrove snapper

en-noun

mangrove snapper (plural mangrove snappers)

Lutjanus griseus, a snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean Sea.


painted comber

Serranus scriba
Serranus scriba#Translingual

Serranus scriba, a sea bass found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea.


Lebranche mullet

Lebranche mullet (plural Lebranche mullets)


black ghost knifefish

Apteronotus albifrons, a tropical fish of South America, covered in a black color entirely, except for two white rings on its tail and a white blaze on its nose, occasionally extending into a stripe down the back.


torpedinoid

(zoology) a member of the Torpediniformes order of electric rays.


torafugu

Takifugu rubripes, a kind of pufferfish.


talking catfish

talking catfish (plural talking catfishes or talking catfish)

talking catfishes (plural)
talking catfish (plural)

In one of the few unexpected moments in the film, she then consummates her newfound freedom in a brief but apparently satisfying cross-species love affair with a talking catfish.

2012 March 12, Angela O'Hara, “Mysterious Object of Desire: The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul”, in Philippa Gates, Lisa Funnell, editors, Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange (Routledge Advances in Film Studies), Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:

It involves a princess despondent over her looks who is literally seduced by a talking catfish.

2017, Jim VandenBosch, ““Heaven Is Overrated”: Two Movies That Posit Life Beyond Death”, in The Gerontologist, volume 57, number 5, Oxford University Press US, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 998–1000:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talking, catfish.


dorab

A dorab wolf-herring (Chirocentrus dorab).


rascacio

The black scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus).


V-lip redhorse

Moxostoma pappillosum, a freshwater catostomid fish of eastern North America.


plecostomus

Any of several fish in the family Loricariidae marketed for aquariums due to their diet cleaning the habitat


pleco fish

pleco fish (countable and uncountable, plural pleco fish or pleco fishes)

pleco fish (plural)
pleco fishes (plural)


phantom shiner

A fish of species Notropis orca, previously endemic to Texas and Mexico, presumed extinct as of 1996.


orange filefish

orange filefish (plural orange filefishes)

A species of filefish, Aluterus schoepfii, typically found along the Central American coast.


patwa

(Guyana) Any of the genus Cichlasoma of fishes.


jewelled blenny

jewelled blenny (plural jewelled blennies)

Salarias fasciatus, a species of fish popular for aquariums.


Manyas shemaya

Alburnus carinatus, a species of cyprinid fish.


laced moray

Gymnothorax favagineus, a species of moray eel.


dwarf ctenopoma

dwarf ctenopoma (plural dwarf ctenopomas)

Microctenopoma nanum, a species of fish found in the Congo Basin.


high-finned dragonet

high-finned dragonet (plural high-finned dragonets)

Synchiropus rameus, a species of dragonet fish.


diamond mullet

Any of the species Planiliza alata of mullet fish.


orange pipefish

orange pipefish (plural orange pipefishes)

Maroubra yasudai, a species of pipefish.


Antalya minnow

Pseudophoxinus antalyae, a species of minnow.


New Zealand brill

New Zealand brill (plural New Zealand brills)

Colistium guntheri, a species of edible flatfish.


spark anglemouth

spark anglemouth (plural spark anglemouths)

Sigmops bathyphilus, a species of bioluminescent deepwater fish that lives in the bathypelagic.


Mauritanian shortface eel

Mauritanian shortface eel (plural Mauritanian shortface eels)

Panturichthys mauritanicus, a species of mud eel.


Cape whitefish

Cape whitefish (plural Cape whitefishes)

A carp of species Pseudobarbus capensis.


ulua

About 30 large uluas surrounded the bag as it was lowered from the ship. When the bag was opened, the fish immediately swam among the falling lobsters and nosed the lobsters as they were descending.

1985, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints (volume 1)


duskyshoulder trevally

duskyshoulder trevally (plural duskyshoulder trevallies)

Carangoides humerosus, a species of ray-finned fish.


pink salmon

pink salmon (plural pink salmons or pink salmon)

pink salmons (plural)
pink salmon (plural)

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha#Translingual

A Pacific salmon of species Oncorhynchus gorbuscha.


European sturgeon

European sturgeon (plural European sturgeons)


frigate tuna

Auxis thazard
Auxis thazard#Translingual


epaulet trevally

epaulet trevally (plural epaulet trevallies)

duskyshoulder trevally
duskyshoulder trevally#English


stoneroller

From stone + roller, from its habit of moving stones as it feeds.

An American minnow, Campostoma anomalum.


whitebelly sandperch

whitebelly sandperch (plural whitebelly sandperches)

Parapercis albiventer, a species of sandperch fish.


deepwater big-eyed worm eel

deepwater big-eyed worm eel (plural deepwater big-eyed worm eels)

Scolecenchelys castlei, a species of snake-eel found off the coast of New Zealand.


blackflap blenny

blackflap blenny (plural blackflap blennies)

(ichthyology) Cirripectes auritus, a species of combtooth blenny found in saltwater coral reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean.


sabertooth fish

sabertooth fish (plural sabertooth fishes)

Any deep sea-dwelling fish of the taxonomic family Evermannellidae, notable for their elongated teeth.


black cod

black cod (plural black cods or black cod)

(informal) Synonym of sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria); (the sablefish is not a species of codfish; but is referred to as cod informally)


black drum

Pogonias cromis, one of two species of fish in the genus Pogonias.


Stevcic's goby

Stevcic's goby (plural Stevcic's gobies)

Gorogobius stevcici, a species of goby fish.


pike characin

Acestrorhynchus microlepis, a species of characin found in Suriname.


Indonesian leaffish

Indonesian leaffish (plural Indonesian leaffishes)

A leaffish native to Indonesia, of species Pristolepis grootii.


bigmouth shiner

bigmouth shiner (plural bigmouth shiners)

A minnow of species Notropis dorsalis; an eastern shiner.


brown tang

Zebrasoma scopas, a species of tang fish.


harlequin darter

harlequin darter (plural harlequin darters)

Etheostoma histrio, a species of darter fish.


ornate rainbowfish

ornate rainbowfish (plural ornate rainbowfishes)

Rhadinocentrus ornatus, a species of eastern-Australian rainbowfish.


Indonesian angelshark

Indonesian angelshark (plural Indonesian angelsharks)

Squatina legnota, a species of critically-endangered angelshark.


mangrove jack

He turned and raised his hat, grinning and holding up a plastic bag in his other hand for her to see. ‘I brought some mangrove jacks for your lunch.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 101:

(Australia) An edible marine and estuarine fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of northern Queensland.


Dabry's sturgeon

Dabry's sturgeon (plural Dabry's sturgeons)

Any of the now extinct species †Acipenser dabryanus of sturgeon fish found in China.


sailfin cardinalfish

sailfin cardinalfish (plural sailfin cardinalfishes)

Quinca mirifica, a species of Australian ray-finned fish.


Picton herring

Sardina pilchardus
Sardina pilchardus#Translingual

European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus; not a true herring).


red-bellied piranha

red-bellied piranha (plural red-bellied piranhas)

Any of species Pygocentrus nattereri, of piranhas native to South America.


red piranha

red-bellied piranha
red-bellied piranha#English


Mexican needlefish

Mexican needlefish (plural Mexican needlefishes)

Tylosurus fodiator, a species of needlefish.


medjed

A species of elephantfish formerly worshipped at Oxyrhynchus.


Cortez sea chub

Cortez sea chub (plural Cortez sea chubs)


red moki

Cheilodactylus spectabilis, a species of Australo-Zealandic moki fish.


glass blue-eye

From glass + blue-eye, due to their transparent body.

Kiunga ballochi, a species of transparent blue-eye fish.


gastromyzontid

Clipping of translingual Gastromyzontidae

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Gastromyzontidae</i>

Any loach in the family Gastromyzontidae, sometimes called hillstream loaches.


neotropical silverside

en-noun

neotropical silverside (plural neotropical silversides)

Any species of silverside of the family Atherinopsidae.


Japanese snake blenny

Japanese snake blenny (plural Japanese snake blennies)

Xiphasia matsubarai, a species of combtooth blenny.


freckled blenny

freckled blenny (plural freckled blennies)

Hypsoblennius ionthas, a species of combtooth blenny.


bramble shark

The shark, Echinorhinus brucus, family Echinorhinidae, found in tropical and temperate seas.


prickly shark

The bottom-dwelling shark, Echinorhinus cookei, family Echinorhinidae, found in the Pacific Ocean.


gulper shark

especially of species Centrophorus granulosus, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and western Pacific Oceans.


bullhead shark

Any shark of most species in the genus Heterodontus.


collared carpet shark

collared carpet shark (plural collared carpet sharks)

Any shark of the family Parascylliidae, of the western Pacific Ocean.


blind shark

Erroneously so named because they close their eyes tightly when taken out of the water; not actually blind.

Either of two bottom-dwelling sharks constituting the family Brachaeluridae.


grey nurse shark

grey nurse shark (plural grey nurse sharks)

A common and cosmopolitan species of shark, Carcharias taurus, family Odontaspididae.


reef shark

Any of various sharks that inhabit coral reefs, especially of the family Carcharhinidae.


sleeper shark

From sleeper + shark, referring to their slow, lethargic habits.


Pacific bonito

Sarda lineolata
Sarda lineolata#Translingual

Sarda lineolata, of the shallower waters of the Pacific.


Australian bonito

Australian bonito (plural Australian bonitos)

A marine species of bonito located in the Australian and Oceanic region, Sarda australis.


thalasseleotridid

Any of the family Thalasseleotrididae of gobioid fish.


majestic flap flap

majestic flap flap (plural majestic flap flaps)

From a humorous allusion to the flapping motion of a manta ray's pectoral fins when it is swimming or breaching.

THESE SHARKS AND MAJESTIC FLAP FLAPS WERE JUST CHILLIN ON THE FLOOR OF THE TANK

2014 August 23, wing (@wingograph), Twitter:

Went to an aquarium today. Got to pet a majestic flap flap.

2016 September 1, Gremlin Enthusiast (@spacedaydreamer), Twitter:

Another one.. on my very first dive in Indonesia, I was welcomed by these majestic flap flaps .. an absolute dream come true moment.

2022 January 12, Vik (@AgentRedDot), Twitter:


majestic flap-flap

majestic flap-flap (plural majestic flap-flaps)

majestic flap flap
majestic flap flap#English

(Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of majestic flap flap.


majestic sea flap flap

majestic sea flap flap (plural majestic sea flap flaps)

The majestic sea flap flap is both beautiful and floppy.

2016 February 24, Sammie (@Sammie14333), Twitter:

Might be a bit late (or very early) for #FlatSharkFriday, but... majestic sea flap-flaps all over the place today at Nusa Penida!

2017 April 22, Simon Pierce (@simonpierce), Twitter:

We went to the aquarium this weekend. Enjoy my picture of the majestic sea flap-flap.

2022 July 18, Lins (@emberblaze), Twitter:

(Internet slang, humorous) Synonym of majestic flap flap.


majestic sea flap-flap

majestic sea flap-flap (plural majestic sea flap-flaps)

majestic sea flap flap
majestic sea flap flap#English

(Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of majestic sea flap flap.


sea pancake

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

From a jocular likening of the flattish shape of a manta ray to a pancake.

I wanna go to the aquarium and pet the sea pancakes :-(

All of these sea pancakes greeted me at once today and I felt so blessed 😍🙌🏼 #SheddAquarium

2016 July 14, Michaela (@MichaelaPCecala), Twitter:

Here are some sea pancakes to brighten your day! 😃

2019 August 27, Audubon Nature Institute (@AudubonNature), Twitter:


golden wonder killifish

An aquarium variant of the striped panchax (Aplocheilus lineatus) with a more yellowish coloration.


sandbar shark

A requiem shark of species Carcharhinus plumbeus, native to the Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific, distinguishable by its very high first dorsal fin and interdorsal ridge.


thickskin shark

thickskin shark (plural thickskin sharks)


buchanosteoid

(paleontology) A fossil fish of the superfamily Buchanosteoidea.


utaka

Open water-dwelling cichlids found in Lake Malawi.


onespot fringehead

onespot fringehead (plural onespot fringeheads)

Neoclinus uninotatus, a species of fringehead blenny.


ovalentarian

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Ovalentaria</i>

Any fish of the clade Ovalentaria, in the clade Percomorpha.


so-iuy mullet

From so-iuy + mullet, Derived from translingual Mugil so-iuy, Derived from Mandarin 梭魚 /梭鱼 (suōyú).


true sole

(ichthyology) Any sole of the family Soleidae.


chub mackerel

en-noun

chub mackerel (countable and uncountable, plural chub mackerels)


white steenbras

white steenbras (plural white steenbrases)

Lithognathus lithognathus, a species of fish endemic to South Africa.


estuarine perch

estuarine perch (plural estuarine perches)


spatulasnout catshark

spatulasnout catshark (plural spatulasnout catsharks)

Apristurus platyrhynchus, a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae.


Borneo catshark

Borneo catshark (plural Borneo catsharks)

spatulasnout catshark
spatulasnout catshark#English


flatnose catshark

flatnose catshark (plural flatnose catsharks)


lenok

A fish of the genus Brachymystax of salmonid fish, found from Kazakhstan to the Russian Far East and Korea, especially of the type species, Brachymystax lenok.


Fisher's seahorse

Fisher's seahorse (plural Fisher's seahorses)

Named after Walter Fisher of Stanford University.


Hawaiian seahorse

Hawaiian seahorse (plural Hawaiian seahorses)

Fisher's seahorse
Fisher's seahorse#English


picarel

Any of the genus Spicara of fish
especially Spicara smaris


Atlantic tarpon

Atlantic tarpon (plural Atlantic tarpon or Atlantic tarpons)

Atlantic tarpon (plural)
Atlantic tarpons (plural)

1996, Marty Snyderman, Clay Wiseman, Guide to Marine Life: Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, Aqua Quest Publications, page 161,
Atlantic tarpon are among the most dramatic and unusual of all Caribbean fishes.

It may look nothing like an eel, but the Atlantic tarpon is related to these ancient snakelike fish.

2009, John Dawes, Andrew Campbell, David Alderton, Richard Beatty, Exploring the World of Aquatic Life, Infobase Publishing (Chelsea House), page 36:

It seems that any Atlantic tarpons found there could only be stragglers from Brazil.

2016, Stephen Spotte, Tarpons, Wiley, page ix:

A ray-finned fish, of species Megalops atlanticus, that inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons and rivers about the Atlantic Ocean, typically in tropical and subtropical regions.


giant barb

Catlocarpio siamensis, a species of fish.


Maori wrasse

They've been feeding a couple of Maori wrasse so they come up onto the platform and swim through the legs of the delighted tourists.

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 57:

The Humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus).


Striped Raphael catfish

Striped Raphael catfish (plural Striped Raphael catfishes)


hookeared sculpin

hookeared sculpin (plural hookeared sculpins)

A small fish of the family Cottidae, in the genus Artediellus.


assfish

assfish (countable and uncountable, plural assfish or assfishes)

From ass + fish, probably from a mistranslation of onus in the genus name Acanthonus, which is from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos, “acanthus”, literally “prickly flower”) + ὄνος (ónos, “hake”): the latter word can mean either an ass (donkey) or less commonly a type of fish.

clq

Any of several types of fish:
bony-eared assfish, Acanthonus armatus

Any of several types of fish:
cavernous assfish, Porogadus gracilis

any of various species in the genus Bassozetus:

abyssal assfish, Bassozetus compressus or Bassozetus elongatus


plainfin midshipman

en-noun

plainfin midshipman (plural plainfin midshipmen)

The batrachoid toadfish Porichthys notatus.


Izak catshark

Holohalaelurus regani, a catshark commonly found off the coasts of South Africa and southern Namibia.


rivuline

A killifish of the family Nothobranchiidae (African rivulines) or Aplocheilidae (Asian rivulines).


Nemo

Audio (US)

The "clownfish" meaning comes from the film Finding Nemo, where Nemo is a clownfish.

A diminutive of the male given name Geronimo


Devils Hole pupfish

Devils Hole pupfish (plural Devils Hole pupfish)

In modern North America, too, seemingly uncrossable barriers have been traversed – the Devil's Hole pupfish, found only in a single cave in Nevada, is closely related to species in Death Valley and the Gulf of Mexico.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 66:

A species of pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, found only in a single water-filled canyon in Nevada.


sorshe ilish

Borrowed from Bengali সরষে ইলিশ (śorśe iliś, literally “mustard hilsa”).

bor+

a Bengali dish made from hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha), a type of herring, cooked in mustard gravy.


pajama cardinalfish

en-noun

pajama cardinalfish (plural pajama cardinalfishes)

A small marine fish (up to 8.5 cm) of the Indo-Pacific, Sphaeramia nematoptera, usually found near coral reefs, popular as an aquarium fish.


bumperfish

bumperfish (countable and uncountable, plural bumperfishes)

A fish, Chloroscombrus, of tropical and temperate continental shelves or estuaries in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.


sand-pride

Any of species Lampetra fluviatilis (syns. Petromyzon branchialis, Ammocaetes branchialis) of lampreys found in the rivers of Britain.


jutjaw

Parascorpis typus, a perciform fish found on the eastern coast of southern Africa.


snowtrout

Any of various Himalayan fishes in the genus Schizothorax resembling trout.


mud skate

bowmouth guitarfish
bowmouth guitarfish#English


king mackerel

king mackerel (plural king mackerels or king mackerel)

king mackerels (plural)
king mackerel (plural)

A species of mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)


king salmon

king salmon (plural king salmons or king salmon)

king salmons (plural)
king salmon (plural)


pearl danio

Danio albolineatus, a tropical fish of the minnow family.


sawtail

A sawtail grouper (Mycteroperca prionura)


margate grunt

Haemulon album
Haemulon album#Translingual

white margate (Haemulon album), a food fish of the western Atlantic.


white margate

Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio#Translingual

margate fish, margate grunt, Margaret fish, Margaret grunt

An edible fish, a grunt of the west Atlantic (Cyprinus carpio).


demon catshark

That led to a fact-finding mission that eventually revealed a new species of demon catshark. […] The Apristurus genus, the second-most diverse group of sharks that counts about 40 species, is commonly known as the ghost or demon catshark.

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

Any of the catsharks of the genus Apristurus.


fringed sole

Gymnachirus texae, a fish from the United States and Mexico.


red gurnard

Chelidonichthys cuculus, a ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triglidae.


freshwater drum

freshwater drum (plural freshwater drums)

Aplodinotus grunniens, a fish endemic to North and Central America.


spotfin croaker

spotfin croaker (plural spotfin croakers)

Roncador stearnsii, a marine ray-finned fish of the family Sciaenidae.


Graham's tilapia

Graham's tilapia (plural Graham's tilapias)


peacock bass

peacock bass (plural peacock basses or peacock bass)

peacock basses (plural)
peacock bass (plural)

Any of the large freshwater cichlids of the genus Cichla.


naked catfish

naked catfish (plural naked catfishes or naked catfish)

naked catfishes (plural)
naked catfish (plural)

Any bagrid (family Bagridae) of African and Asian catfishes.


X-ray fish

X-ray fish (plural X-ray fishes or X-ray fish)

X-ray fishes (plural)
X-ray fish (plural)


kaluga

Huso dauricus, a sturgeon of the Amur river basin in northeast China and southeast Russia.


American shad

Alosa sapidissima, an anadromous clupeid fish naturally distributed on the North American coast of the North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Florida, and as an introduced species on the North Pacific coast.


bat ray

Myliobatis californica, a kind of eagle ray.


red hind

A marine ray-finned fish, Epinephelus guttatus.


blue tang

Any of various surgeonfishes, including Acanthurus coeruleus, Acanthurus leucosternon, and Paracanthurus.


Beardslee trout

Named after Admiral Lester Beardslee (1836–1903).

named-after

Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei, a kind of rainbow trout that is endemic to Lake Crescent in Washington.


European anchovy

en-noun

European anchovy (plural European anchovies)

Engraulis encrasicolus
Engraulis encrasicolus#Translingual

A common food fish found in European waters from the Sea of Azov to the North Sea and in west African waters (Engraulis encrasicolus).


European sprat

Sprattus sprattus
Sprattus sprattus#Translingual

A fish of European waters from the Black Sea to the North Sea and the Baltic sea (Sprattus sprattus).


goliath grouper

goliath grouper (plural goliath groupers)

Any of the species Epinephelus itajara of grouper


peanut bunker

They’ll also tell you how important these fish, both in juvenile “peanut bunker” size and full-grown adult size, are to feeding sport fish like striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tuna.

2012, Kevin Blinkoff, “Managers to Make Big Decision on Bunker”, in On The Water:

The place was choking with peanut bunker, and everywhere I looked, birds were diving and stripers were feeding in a surface frenzy.

2020, Dave Pickering, “Early Action: Peanut Bunker Explosion”, in The Fisherman:

In August, only a small percentage of the young-of-year peanut bunker will have left their nurseries for the open ocean.

2022, Billy Mitchell, “The Peanut Bunker Boom”, in On The Water:


little tunny

little tunny (countable and uncountable, plural little tunny)

A small tuna of species Euthynnus alletteratus, native to the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea.


false albacore

false albacore (countable and uncountable, plural false albacore)

A small species of tuna, a little tunny.


sawtooth eel

Any of the Serrivomeridae family of eels.


short-finned eel

short-finned eel (plural short-finned eels)


fish-eating

Near-synonym: pescetarianism

The practice or habit of eating fish; ichthyophagy.


bony bream

Steadman told me that the fish in the photograph is birrngi, a type of bony bream that has now been lost.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 75:

(Australia) A freshwater fish, Nematalosa erebi, of mainland Australia; the pyberry.


piracatinga

2012, Annual Report of the International Whaling Commission, International Whaling Commission, page 53,
This year, it reiterated serious concerns that the population implications of the intentional killing of botos and tucuxis for use as bait in the piracatinga fishery in Brazil.

2017, Vera M. F. da Silva, Anthony R. Martin, Amazon River Dolphin: Inia geoffrensis, article in Bernd Würsig, J. G. M. Thewissen, Kit M. Kovacs (editors), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd Edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 23,
Since the mid-1990s, a directed hunt to provide bait to catch a scavenging catfish called locally piracatinga or mota (Calophysus macropterus) has become the most severe threat to the species.

Fishing for piracatinga often involves enclosing an entire decomposing carcass within a submerged corral into which the catfish are lured; the bigger the bait, the larger the catch.

2020, David Dudgeon, Freshwater Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press, page 105:

2022, Randall R. Reeves, Chapter 1: Cetacean Conservation and Management Strategies, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Bernd Würsig (editors), Marine Mammals, Springer, page 16,
[…] an exploding regional market for piracatinga (Calophysus macropterus), a scavenging catfish caught in anchored traps baited with, among other things, the flesh and blubber of botos […] .

(zoology) A species of catfish, Calophysus macropterus, endemic to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins.


pot-bellied seahorse

pot-bellied seahorse (plural pot-bellied seahorses)

To my wonder the book fell open to a painting of a pot-bellied seahorse.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 15:

A large species of sea horse, Hippocampus abdominalis, found in southeast Australia and New Zealand.


striped cowfish

striped cowfish (plural striped cowfish)

I had eyes only for the striped cowfish as it slowly moved.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 311:


trout-perch

From a compound of trout + perch, the compound indicates the species looking akin to some kind of hybrid or mixture of the two other types of fish.


Warsaw grouper

A marine ray-finned fish of species Hyporthodus nigritus.


cowanyoung

greenback horse mackerel
greenback horse mackerel

(Australia) A fish, the greenback horse mackerel Trachurus declivis.


southern sennet

southern sennet (plural southern sennets)

Sphyraena picudilla, an ocean-going species of game fish in the barracuda family.


dither fish

dither fish (countable and uncountable, plural dither fish or dither fishes)

dither fish (plural)
dither fishes (plural)

A fish used to reduce aggression and increase amicability among other fish; its habit of swimming in the open gives other fish confidence that there are no predators around.


king-of-the-salmon

From the legends of the Makah people, which suggest that this fish guides the salmon each year to their spawning grounds.

A species of ribbonfish in the family Trachipteridae.


blackbar triggerfish

blackbar triggerfish (plural blackbar triggerfish)

lagoon triggerfish
lagoon triggerfish#English


spottail shiner

spottail shiner (plural spottail shiners)


spottail minnow

spottail minnow (plural spottail minnows)


blacktip reef shark

blacktip reef shark (plural blacktip reef sharks)

A species of requiem shark, Carcharhinus melanopterus.


sand tiger shark

sand tiger shark (plural sand tiger sharks)


khramulya

Borrowed from Russian храму́ля (xramúlja), from Georgian ხრამული (xramuli), from ხრამი (xrami), the name of a river.

bor+

Any one of several species of freshwater cyprinids in the genus Capoeta.


Japanese sea bass

en-noun

Japanese sea bass (plural Japanese sea basses or Japanese sea bass)

Japanese sea basses (plural)
Japanese sea bass (plural)

A species of catadromous marine ray-finned fish found in the Western Pacific, Lateolabrax japonicus.


spiny eel

A freshwater fish, similar to but not related to the true eels, of the family Mastacembelidae.


fire eel

A spiny eel of Southeast Asia, a common aquarium fish.


spotted triggerfish

spotted triggerfish (plural spotted triggerfishes or spotted triggerfish)

spotted triggerfishes (plural)
spotted triggerfish (plural)

A species of triggerfish, Balistes punctatus


stinging catfish

stinging catfish (plural stinging catfish or stinging catfishes)

stinging catfish (plural)
stinging catfishes (plural)

Heteropneustes spp., the stinging catfishes of family Heteropneustidae, are distributed in freshwater habitats of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam (Berra, 2007).

2013 December, M. Shahadat Hossain, Subrata Sarker, S.M. Sharifuzzaman, Sayedur Rahman Chowdhury, “New species of stinging catfish Heteropneustes nani (Siluriformes: Heteropneustidae) from Noakhali, Bangladesh”, in Vertebrate Zoology, volume 63, number 3, Frankfurt: Senckenberg Nature Research Society, →DOI, →ISSN, page 259, column 1:

Heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.


pallid sturgeon

pallid sturgeon (plural pallid sturgeons)

Scaphirhynchus albus, a fish of the Missouri and lower Mississippi.


shortbill spearfish

shortbill spearfish (plural shortbill spearfishes)

A species of marlin, Tetrapturus angustirostris


silver hake

A species of hake, Merluccius bilinearis


longbill spearfish

longbill spearfish (plural longbill spearfishes)

A species of merlin, Tetrapturus pfluegeri


scrawled filefish

scrawled filefish (plural scrawled filefishes)


cutthroat trout

cutthroat trout (plural cutthroat trouts)

A species of trout, Oncorhynchus clarkii


quinnat salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha#Translingual

A Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).


red salmon

Oncorhynchus nerka
Oncorhynchus nerka#Translingual


winter flounder

winter flounder (plural winter flounders)

A species of flatfish, Pseudopleuronectes americanus


fourspot flounder

fourspot flounder (plural fourspot flounders)

A species of flounder, Hippoglossina oblonga


white sturgeon

A species of sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus


ocean perch

Sebastes norvegicus
Sebastes norvegicus#Translingual

A fish of species Sebastes norvegicus, of the North Atlantic.


black crappie

A species of crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus


broomtail grouper

broomtail grouper (plural broomtail groupers)

A species of grouper, Mycteroperca xenarcha


yellowtail reef fish

yellowtail reef fish (plural yellowtail reef fish)


goonch

A large catfish of the genus Bagarius, native to India and Southeast Asia.


Caspian shemaya

Caspian shemaya (plural Caspian shemayas)


shemaya

compound

شاه (šâh) + ماهی (mâhi)

Any of certain fishes in the genus Alburnus.


arandaspid

A member of the extinct class Arandaspidiformes of jawless fish that lived in the Ordovician.


Copi

By shortening of Copious, coined in 2022 by Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

"Copi is a great name: Short, crisp and easy to say. What diner won't be intrigued when they read Copi tacos or Copi burgers on a menu?"

2022 June 22, Jelisa Castrodale, quoting Colleen Callahan, “What Is Copi? A New Name for an Invasive Fish”, in Food&Wine:

(zoology, neologism, cooking) Another name for Asian carp.


candy darter

Etheostoma osburni, a small, colorful fish of Virginia and West Virginia.


spotted turbot

Pleuronichthys ritteri, a species of flatfish found off the coast of the Californias.


bottlelight

A fish of the genus Danaphos of deepwater fishes.


pearlside

A fish of the genus Maurolicus of deepwater fishes.


constellationfish

en-noun

constellationfish (plural constellationfishes or constellationfish)

constellationfishes (plural)
constellationfish (plural)

A fish of the genus Valenciennellus of deepwater fishes.


pale chub

Zacco platypus, a freshwater fish of East Asia.


barbel steed

A freshwater fish of species Hemibarbus labeo, of East Asia.


giant snakehead

giant snakehead (plural giant snakeheads)

A large freshwater fish, of species Channa micropeltes, of Southeast Asia.


Japanese smelt

A freshwater fish of species Hypomesus nipponensis, native to Korea, Japan, and Sakhalin.


stringfish

Hucho perryi, a large freshwater fish of Sakhalin and Hokkaido.


saddled bichir

Polypterus endlicherii
Polypterus endlicherii#Translingual

A freshwater fish, Polypterus endlicherii, of north-tropical Africa, common in captivity.


barred knifejaw

barred knifejaw (plural barred knifejaws)


frillgoby

Any of the tropical fish of the genus Bathygobius.


swamp eel

Any eel-like fish of the Synbranchidae family


northern whiting

northern whiting (plural northern whitings)


tiger goby

A species of goby, Pseudogobiopsis tigrellus


striped ruffe

A species of perch, Gymnocephalus schraetser


sleepy goby

A species of fish, Psammogobius biocellatus


spotted rainbowfish

spotted rainbowfish (plural spotted rainbowfishes)

A rainbowfish of species Glossolepis maculosus.


narrow-bellied seahorse

narrow-bellied seahorse (plural narrow-bellied seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus angustus


Katavi mouthbrooder

Katavi mouthbrooder (plural Katavi mouthbrooders)


golden sand-eater

golden sand-eater (plural golden sand-eaters)


long-snouted seahorse

long-snouted seahorse (plural long-snouted seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus guttulatus


offshore seahorse

offshore seahorse (plural offshore seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus kelloggi


estuary seahorse

estuary seahorse (plural estuary seahorses)


spotted seahorse

spotted seahorse (plural spotted seahorses)


yellow seahorse

yellow seahorse (plural yellow seahorses)


common seahorse

common seahorse (plural common seahorses)


bullneck seahorse

bullneck seahorse (plural bullneck seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus minotaur


lemur-tail seahorse

lemur-tail seahorse (plural lemur-tail seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus mohnikei


slender seahorse

slender seahorse (plural slender seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus reidi


longsnout seahorse

longsnout seahorse (plural longsnout seahorses)


hedgehog seahorse

hedgehog seahorse (plural hedgehog seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus spinosissimus


tiger snout seahorse

tiger snout seahorse (plural tiger snout seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus subelongatus


low-crowned seahorse

low-crowned seahorse (plural low-crowned seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus trimaculatus


three-spot seahorse

three-spot seahorse (plural three-spot seahorses)


longnose seahorse

longnose seahorse (plural longnose seahorses)


flat-faced seahorse

flat-faced seahorse (plural flat-faced seahorses)


zebra seahorse

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus zebra


dwarf seahorse

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae


short-head seahorse

short-head seahorse (plural short-head seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps


knobby seahorse

knobby seahorse (plural knobby seahorses)


giraffe seahorse

giraffe seahorse (plural giraffe seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus camelopardalis


knysna seahorse

knysna seahorse (plural knysna seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus capensis


tiger tail seahorse

tiger tail seahorse (plural tiger tail seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus comes


crowned seahorse

crowned seahorse (plural crowned seahorses)

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus coronatus


false scorpionfish

false scorpionfish (countable and uncountable, plural false scorpionfish or false scorpionfishes)

false scorpionfish (plural)
false scorpionfishes (plural)

From false + scorpionfish, as opposed to the 'true' scorpionfishes in the family Scorpaenidae; whereas this species is in Centrogenyidae.

Centrogenys vaigiensis, the only described species in the family Centrogenyidae, which very closely resemble scorpionfish.


upside-down catfish

upside-down catfish (plural upside-down catfish or upside-down catfishes)

upside-down catfish (plural)
upside-down catfishes (plural)

Through the advent of air travel the amazing family of upside-down catfishes has been introduced, and is now providing us with several species of amusing and interesting scavengers.

1963, Derek McInerny, Geoffrey Gerard, “Synodontidæ”, in All About Tropical Fish, new edition, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, →OCLC, page 359:

Upside-down catfish are delightful aquarium pets. They eat any foods offered to them, and they are generally peaceful.

1968, Alan Mark Fletcher, “The Upside-down Catfish”, in Unusual Aquarium Fishes, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, page 43:

Any of various freshwater catfish that swim upside-down, such as Synodontis decorus, Synodontis multipunctatus, and especially Synodontis nigriventris


onaga

From Japanese 尾長 (onaga) or 尾長鯛 (onagadai).

(Hawaii) Longtail snapper (Etelis coruscans), a species of ray-finned fish.


tombo ahi

From Japanese トンボ (tonbo, “dragonfly”, a nickname for the albacore tuna; its long pectoral fins are likened to the wings of a dragonfly) + ahi, from Hawaiian ʻahi (“yellowfin tuna”).

der

Thunnus alalunga
Thunnus alalunga#Translingual

(Hawaii) Albacore, longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga)


monchong

(Hawaii) Sickle pomfret (Taractichthys steindachneri)

(Kōchi) エチオピア (echiopia, literally “Ethiopia”)

(Kantō) テツビン (鉄瓶, tetsubin, literally “cast iron kettle”)


arhynchobatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Arhynchobatid.


tambaqui

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tambaqui, from Old Tupi tambaky.

bor+

A freshwater fish of species Colossoma macropomum, native to the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America.


spiny seahorse

A species of seahorse, Hippocampus guttulatus


goldspotted snake eel

en-noun

goldspotted snake eel (plural goldspotted snake eels)

Myrichthys ocellatus, a species of snake eel found off the eastern coasts of North and Central America, in coral reefs.


Chinese trumpetfish

Chinese trumpetfish (plural Chinese trumpetfish)

A bony fish of the species Aulostomus chinensis.


West Atlantic trumpetfish

West Atlantic trumpetfish (plural West Atlantic trumpetfish)

A bony fish of the species Aulostomus maculatus.


Atlantic trumpetfish

Atlantic trumpetfish (plural Atlantic trumpetfish)

A bony fish of the species Aulostomus strigosus.


Lost River sucker

Lost River sucker (plural Lost River suckers)

Deltistes luxatus, a species of fish within the taxonomic family Catostomidae.


c'waam

Lost River sucker
Lost River sucker#English

Deltistes luxatus, the Lost River sucker


shortnose sucker

shortnose sucker (plural shortnose suckers)

Chasmistes brevirostris
Chasmistes brevirostris#Translingual

A fish of species Chasmistes brevirostris, within the taxonomic family Catostomidae of suckers.


koptu

Chasmistes brevirostris
Chasmistes brevirostris

shortnose sucker
shortnose sucker#English

Chasmistes brevirostris, the shortnose sucker


gafftop

Bagre marinus, a catfish of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Southeastern US Atlantic.


ranchu

Borrowed from Japanese 蘭(らん)鋳(ちゅう) (ranchū).

A variety of hooded goldfish native to Japan, which lacks a dorsal fin.


smoothhead

Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.

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


tadpole goby

Any fish of the genus Benthophilus, distributed through the deeper regions of the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and the Sea of Azov.


janitor fish

janitor fish (plural janitor fish or janitor fishes)

janitor fish (plural)
janitor fishes (plural)

From janitor + fish, coined by the Filipino locals and as well as the aquarium fish enthusiasts for its ability to clean aquaria by eating algae & fish excrements.

The janitor fish infestation that has plagued Marikina River and Laguna de Bay has also spread to Mindanao, and is now threatening to run riot across the delicately balanced ecosystem of Asia’s largest marshland, the Agusan Marsh in Agusan del Sur.

2006 June 6, Mike Baños, “Janitor fish threatens Asia's largest marshland”, in Philstar.com:

(Philippines) pleco, pleco fish or plec: Any of several South & Central American fish, of the family Loricariidae.


epaulette shark

epaulette shark (plural epaulette sharks)

longtail carpet shark
longtail carpet shark

Hemiscyllium ocellatum
Hemiscyllium ocellatum

A species of longtail carpet shark; Hemiscyllium ocellatum.

Any species of shark in the genus Hemiscyllium that has "epaulette shark" in its common name rather than "carpetshark".


longtail carpet shark

longtail carpet shark (plural longtail carpet sharks)


Indonesian speckled carpetshark

Indonesian speckled carpetshark (plural Indonesian speckled carpetsharks)

Indonesian speckled carpetsharks (plural)

From Indonesian + speckled + carpetshark.

A species of bamboo shark; Hemiscyllium freycineti.


beloribitsa

A large salmonid fish, Stenodus leucichthys, now extinct in the wild. It is related to the inconnu.


brookinaw

Blend of brook + mackinaw, after the parent species. Mackinaw trout being another name for lake trout.

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


davatchan

Salvelinus alpinus erythrinus, a subspecies of saibling native to Lake Baikal, Russia.


mirrorbelly

A fish of the genus Monacoa of deepwater fishes.


red-tailed black shark

red-tailed black shark (plural red-tailed black sharks)

Epalzeorhynchos bicolor
Epalzeorhynchos bicolor

A species of cyprinid; Epalzeorhynchos bicolor.


redtail shark

red-tailed black shark
red-tailed black shark#English


red tailed shark

red tailed shark (plural red tailed sharks)


redtail sharkminnow

redtail sharkminnow (plural redtail sharkminnows)


rainbow shark

Epalzeorhynchos frenatum
Epalzeorhynchos frenatum

A species of cyprinid; Epalzeorhynchos frenatum.


red-finned shark

red-finned shark (plural red-finned sharks)


rainbow sharkminnow

rainbow sharkminnow (plural rainbow sharkminnows)


green fringelip labeo

green fringelip labeo (plural green fringelip labeos)


whitetail sharkminnow

whitetail sharkminnow (plural whitetail sharkminnows)


sharkminnow

(chiefly with qualifying word) Any of multiple species of cyprinid.


bala shark

Balantiocheilos melanopterus
Balantiocheilos melanopterus

A species of cyprinid; Balantiocheilos melanopterus.


tricolor sharkminnow

tricolor sharkminnow (plural tricolor sharkminnows)


Siamese bala shark

Siamese bala shark (plural Siamese bala sharks)

Balantiocheilos ambusticauda
Balantiocheilos ambusticauda

A species of cyprinid; Balantiocheilos ambusticauda.


burnt-tailed barb

burnt-tailed barb (plural burnt-tailed barbs)


roseline shark

A species of cyprinid; Dawkinsia denisonii.


GloFish

genetically modified
genetically modified

Any genetically modified fluorescently colored fish made by this brand.


Denison barb

Denison + barb. Named after Sir William Thomas Denison, a British governor in India during the 19th century, honoring his contributions to the region.


red-line torpedo barb

red-line torpedo barb (plural red-line torpedo barbs)