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The links on this page will lead you to pictures of many of the tropical fish varieties seen today. They will be listed by family, with both common and scientific names. All photos were either submitted to me, used with the owners permission or thought to be in the public domain. Please send in yours today. Enjoy!


Common Name	Scientific Name
Miscellaneous species / Inverts and others
African Arowana	Heterotis niloticus
African Butterfly	Pantodon buchholzi
African leaf fish (Spotted Climbing Perch)	Ctenopoma acutirostre
Archerfish	Toxotes jaculatrix
Argentine Pearl Killifish	Cynolebias bellottii
Armoured bichir	Polypterus delhezi
Arrowhead Puffer	Tetraodon suvatii
Asian knifefish	Notopterus notopterus
Auranti	Channa arantamaculata
Black arowana	Osteoglossum ferreirai
Baby Whale	Petrocephalus bovei bovei
Black Ghost Knifefish	Apteronotus albifrons
Black Pearl Killifish	Cynolebias nigripinnis
Blue Gularis	Fundulopanchax sjoestedti
Bluefin killifish	Lucania goodei
Bumble Bee Goby	Brachygobius xanthozona
Checkerboard darter	Order: Perciformes
Chinese High Fin Banded Shark	Myxocyprinus asiaticus
Clay goby	Dormitator Lebretonis
Clown Killi	Epiplatys annulatus
Clown knife	Notopterus chitala
Congo Eel	Afromastacembelus sp.
Dwarf puffer	Carinotetraodon travancoricus
Eel	Aquilla Marmorata
Elephant Nose	Gnathonemus petersi
Figure Eight Puffer	Tetraodon biocellatus
Flaming Arrow Goby	Sicyopterus Zosterophorus
Freshwater flounder	Achirus lineatus
Green spotted puffer	Tetraodon nigroviridis
Giant (Mbu) Puffer	Tetraodon mbu
Goo Obo Gudgeon	Mogurnda nesolepis
Golden panchax	Pachypanchax playfairii
Golden Wonder Killi (Striped panchax)	Aplocheilus lineatus
Guenther's Nothobranch	Nothobranchius guentheri
Indian glass fish	Parambassis ranga
Jardini Arowana	Scleropages jardini
Killies	Aphyosemion bivittatum funge
Knight Goby	Stigmatogobius sadanundio
Lampeye panchax	Micropanchax macrophthalmus
Mudskipper	Periophthalmus argentilineatus
Nandus	Nandus nandus
Needlenose gar	Xenentodon cancila
Norman's lampeye	Aplocheilichthys normani
Ornate Bichir	Polypterus ornatipinnis
Peacock gudgeon	Tateurndina ocellicauda
Pumpkinseed Sunfish	Lepomis gibbosus
Red snakehead	Channa micropeltes
Ropefish	Erpetoichthys calabaricus
Royal Knife Fish	Notopterus ocellatus
Scat	Scatophagus argus
Senegalus (Cuvier) Bicher	Polypterus senegalus
Silver arowana	Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
Sleeper goby	Mogurnda mogurnda
Short-tailed pipefish	Microphis Brachyurus
Short-tailed river stingray	Potamotrygon brachyura
Siamese Tigerfish	Datnioides microlepis
Snowflake Eel	Gymnothorax tile
South American Leaf Fish	Monocirrhus polyacanthus
South American Lungfish	Lepidosiren paradoxa
Spiny Eel	Macrognathus (Mastacembelus) Sp.
Targetfish	Terapon jarbua
Tiretrack Eel	Mastacemelus armatus
Vietnamese Blenny?	Combtooth species?
Violet Goby	Gobioides broussoneti
White Cheek Goby	Rhinogobius wui
Zaire Green bichir	Polypterus retropinnis
Invertebrates and Others
African clawed frog	Xenopus laevis, etc.
African dwarf frog	Hymenochirus Sp.
Amano algae eating shrimp	Caridina multidentata (Caridina japonica)
Apple snails, Mystery Snails	Pomacea bridgesii
Bamboo shrimp	Atyopsis moluccensis ?
Cherry Red Shrimp	Neocaridina denticulata sinensis?
Cherry Red Shrimp 2	Neocaridina red?
Crayfish	Order Decapoda
Crystal Red Shrimp	Caridina sp. "Crystal Red"
Fan Shrimp	Atyopsis moluccensis ?
Fiddler crabs	Uca various
Freshwater clams	Corbicula fluminea?
Ghost shrimp	Palaeomonetes species
Malaysian trumpet snail	Melanoides tuberculata
Nerite snail	nerite sp?
Red Claw Crab	Perisesarma bidens
Red Claw Shrimp	Macrobrachium hendersoni
Rudolph Shrimp	Palaemon scarletti?
Spixi snails	Asolene (Asolene) spixi
Vampire Shrimp	Attya gabonese
Wood Shrimp	Atyopsis moluccensis ?

I would like to thank the members of Badmans Tropical fish and the Tropical Fish Gallery. Most of these great pictures were posted either on the message boards or in the photo gallery itself.

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