Ultimate Reference: Common Names of Aquarium Fish Species

A complete alphabet of all the fish species in the world would have at least 27,300 items, and those are just the official names. Many fish—especially popular varieties for aquariums—also have any number of nicknames. For example, the Corydorus matae, or Bandit Cory, is also known as a Bandit Catfish, Masked Cory, Meta River Catfish, and Rio Meta Cory. The following—obviously partial— list includes many popular aquarium fish, from A to Z.

A

• Adolfo's Cory
• Adonis Tetra
• African Peacock Cichlid
• Angel Fish

• Archerfish
• Atlantic Mudskipper
• Auratus
• Australian Rainbowfish
• Azureus Chiclid

B

• Bandit Cory
• Barb - Gold
• Barb - Rosy
• Barb - Schwanefeld's
• Barb - Tiger
• Betta - female
• Betta - male
• Black-Banded Leporinus
• Black Neon Tetra
• Black Phantom Tetra
• Black Skirt Tetra
• Black Widow Tetra
• Blind Cavefish
• Blood Parrot

• Blue Gourami - Albino Morph
• Blue Gourami - Cosby Hybrid
• Blue Gourami - Traditional Color
• Boeseman's Rainbowfish
• Bronze Cory

C

• Cardinal Tetra

• Catfish - Jordan's
• Catfish - Upside Down
• Cavefish - Blind
• Cichlid - Five-bar
• Cichlid - Purple
• Cichlid - Six-bar
• Clown Loach
• Cory - Bandit
• Cory - Bronze

D

• Danio - Pearl
• Danio - Zebra
• Debauwi Cat
• Deepwater Hap
• Denison's Flying Fox
• Dojo Loach
  Dovii
• Dragon Fish
• Dusky Piranha
• Dwarf Croaking Gourami
• Dwarf Gourami
• Dwarf Pencilfish

• Dwarf Snakehead

E

• Earth Eater
• Eastern Mudminnow
• Edible Gourami
• Eduard's Mbuna
• Ell Loach
• Egyptian Mouthbrooder
• Eight-Barb Loach
• Electric Blue Hap

• Electric Catfish
• Electric Yellow Hap
• Elegant Rasbora
• Elephant-Nose Cichlid
• Emperor Tetra

F

• Fairy Cichlid
• False Bumblebee Catfish
• Fathead Bichir
• Fighting Fish

• Figure Eight Puffer
• Five-bar Cichlid
• Five-stripe Lamprologus

G

• Gold Barb
• Gourami - Blue
• Gourami - Dwarf
• Gourami - Golden
• Gourami - Kissing

• Gourami - Leeri
• Gourami - Marbeled
• Gourami - Moonlight
• Gourami - Opaline
• Gourami - Pearl
• Gourami - Three Spot

H

• Harlequin
• Haitian Cichlid
• Half-Lined Pyrrhulina
• Hampala Barb
• Harlequin Rasbora

• Harlequin Shark
• Harrison's Pencilfish
• Hatchetfish
• Heterotis
• Hi-Fin Banded Shark

J

• Jack Dempsey
• Jae Barb
• Jaguar Catfish
• Jelly Bean Tetra
• Jewel Cichlid

• Johanni Mbuna
• Jordan's Catfish
• Jumping Charcin

K

• Kafirnigani Gray Loach
• Katangae Nile Bichir
• Keyhole Cichlid
• Kissing Gourami
• Kribensis

L

• Labidochromis sp "Yellow"

• Lamprologus - Five-stripe
• Lamprologus - Six-stripe
• Leeri Gourami
• Leporinus - Black-Banded
• Loach - Clown
• Loach - Dojo
• Loach - Weather

M

• Marbled Gourami
• Marigold Lyertail Swordtail
• Marigold Wag Swordtail
• Melanotaenia Splendida Tatei
• Moonlight Gourami

N

• Nandus
• Needle Fin Eater
• Needlefish

• Neon Tetra - Black
• Nigerian Red Krib
• Nile Puffer
• Nyerere's Victoria Cichlid

O

• Obese Syndontis
• Obliquidens Hap
• Obscure Snakehead
• Ocellated Freshwater Stingray
• Ocellated Shell-Dweller
• Ocellated Synodontis
• Opaline Gourami
• Oxeye Herring
• Ozola Barb

P

• Palembang Puffer
• Papuan Rainbowfish
• Parrot - Blood
• Pearl Danio
• Pearl Gourami

• Platy - Red Wagtail
• Puffer - Figure Eight
• Purple Cichlid

R

• Rainbowfish - Boeseman's

• Rainbowfish - Papuan
• Rasbora - Red
• Red Eye Tetra
• Red Rasbora
• Red Wagtail Platy
• Rosy Barb

S

• Schwanefeld's Barb
• Siamese Fighting Fish

• Silver Dollar - Metynnis argenteus
• Six-bar Cichlid
• Six-stripe Lamprologus
• Swordtail - Marigold Lyertail
• Swordtail - Marigold Wag

T

• Tetra - Black Neon
• Tetra - Black Phantom
• Tetra - Black Skirt
• Tetra - Black Widow
• Tetra - Cardinal
• Tetra - Emperor

• Tetra - Red Eye
• Tetra - White Skirt
• Three Spot Gourami
• Tiger Barb

U

• Uaru
• Unicorn Fish

• Upside Down Catfish

V

• Vampire Pleco
• Variegated Platy
• Variegated Shark
• Venustus
• Violet Goby

W

• Wallago Catfish
• Warmouth
• Weather Fish
• Weather Loach
• West African Bichir
• West Australian Pygmy Perch
• White Skirt Tetra
• Whiptailed Banjo Catfish

Y

• Yellow Banded Moenkhausia
• Yellow Julie
• Yellow King Piranha
• Yellow Kribensis
• Yellow Lab
• Yellow Regal Peacock Cichlid
• Yellow-Finned Xenotilapia
• Yellow-Tailed Conga Tetra
• Yo-Yo Loach

Z

• Zebra Danio