List of British fish

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This is a list of fish found in Britain.

Contents 1 Jawless fish 1.1 Lampreys 2 Cartilaginous fish 2.1 Sharks and dogfish 2.2 Skates and rays 3 Bony fish 3.1 Anglerfish 3.2 Bass 3.3 Blennies 3.4 Bluefin tuna 3.5 Carp 3.6 Catfish 3.7 Congers 3.8 Cottids 3.9 Dories 3.10 Eels 3.11 Flatfish 3.12 Gadidae 3.13 Gobies 3.14 Grey mullets 3.15 Gurnards 3.16 Herrings 3.17 Loaches 3.18 Mackerel 3.19 Perch 3.20 Pike 3.21 Pipefish 3.22 Pleuronectidae 3.23 Red mullets 3.24 Salmon and trout 3.25 Sand eels 3.26 Sand smelts 3.27 Sea bream 3.28 Smelts 3.29 Soles 3.30 Sticklebacks 3.31 Sturgeons 3.32 Sunfish 3.33 Whitefish 3.34 Wrasse 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Jawless fish

[edit] Lampreys

• Brook lamprey Lampetra planeri
• River lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis
• Sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus

[edit] Cartilaginous fish

[edit] Sharks and dogfish

• Basking shark Cetorhinus maximus
• Blue shark Prionace glauca
• Common hammerhead Sphyrna zygaena
• Dogfish
• Large spotted dogfish Scyliorhinus stellaris
• Lesser spotted dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula
• Mako Isurus oxyrinchus
• Picked dogfish Squalus acanthias
• Porbeagle Lamna nasus
• Thresher shark Alopias vulpinus
• Tope shark Galeorhinus galeus

[edit] Skates and rays

• Angel shark Squatina squatina
• Blonde ray Raja brachyura
• Common skate Raja batis
• Common sting ray Dasyatis pastinaca
• Cuckoo ray Raja naevus
• Dark electric ray Torpedo nobiliana
• Marbled electric ray Torpedo marmorata
• Painted ray Raja undulata
• Shagreen ray Raja fullonica
• Spotted ray Raja montagui

[edit] Bony fish

[edit] Anglerfish

• Monkfish Lophius piscatorius

[edit] Bass

• Sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax

[edit] Blennies

• Butterfly blenny Blennius ocellaris

[edit] Bluefin tuna

• Bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus (extinct in British waters)

[edit] Carp

• Barbel Barbus barbus
• Bitterling Rhodeus sericeus (introduced)
• Bleak Alburnus alburnus
• Carp bream Abramis brama
• Chinese grass carp Ctenopharygodon idella (introduced)
• Chub Leuciscus cephalus
• Common bream Abramis brama
• Common carp Cyprinus carpio (introduced)
• Common dace Leuciscus leuciscus
• Crucian carp Carassius carassius
• Goldfish Carassius auratus (introduced)
• Eurasian minnow Phoxinus phoxinus
• Gudgeon Gobio gobio
• Orfe Leuciscus idus (introduced)
• Roach Rutilus rutilus
• Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus
• Silver bream Blicca bjoerkna
• Tench Tinca tinca

[edit] Catfish

• Danube catfish Silurus glanis (introduced)

[edit] Congers

• Conger eel Conger conger

[edit] Cottids

• European bullhead Cottus gobio
• Father lasher Myoxocephalus scorpius
• Long-spined sea scorpion Taurulus bubalis
• Norway bullhead Taurulus lilljeborgi

[edit] Dories

• John Dory Zeus faber

[edit] Eels

• European eel Anguilla anguilla

[edit] Flatfish

• Brill Scophthalmus rhombus
• Megrim Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
• Turbot Scophthalmus maximus

[edit] Gadidae

• Burbot Lota lota
• Cod Gadus morhua
• Haddock Malanogrammus aeglefinus
• Hake Merluccius merluccius
• Ling Molva molva
• Pollack Pollachius pollachus
• Saithe Pollachius virens
• Whiting Marlangius merlangus

[edit] Gobies

• Common goby Pomatoschistus microps
• Giant goby Gobius cobitis

[edit] Grey mullets

• Golden grey mullet Liza aurata
• Thick-lipped grey mullet Chelon labrosus
• Thin-lipped grey mullet Liza ramada

[edit] Gurnards

• Grey gurnard Eutriglia gurnardus
• Red gurnard Aspitriglia cuculus
• Tub gurnard Trigla lucerna

[edit] Herrings

• Allis shad Alosa alosa
• Atlantic herring Clupea harengus
• Pilchard Sardina pilchardus
• Sprat Clupea sprattus
• Thwaite shad Alosa fallax

[edit] Loaches

• Spined loach Cobitis taenia
• Stone loach Barbatula barbatula

[edit] Mackerel

• Atlantic mackerel Scomber scombrus

[edit] Perch

• European perch Perca fluviatilis
• Pike-perch Stizostedion lucioperca (introduced)
• Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernua

[edit] Pike

• Northern pike Esox lucius

[edit] Pipefish

• Great pipefish Syngathus acus
• Common seahorse Hippocampus ramulosus

[edit] Pleuronectidae

• Common dab Limanda limanda
• European flounder, Platichthys flesus
• Atlantic halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus
• Lemon sole Microstomus kitt
• European plaice Pleuronectes platessa

[edit] Red mullets

• Red mullet Mullus surmuletus
• Striped mullet Mullus barbatus

[edit] Salmon and trout

• Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus
• Atlantic salmon Salmo salar
• Brook charr Salvelinus fontinalis (introduced)
• Brown trout Salmo trutta
• Grayling Thymallus thymallus
• Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (introduced)
• Vendace Coregonus albula

[edit] Sand eels

• Greater sand eel Hyperoplus lanceolatus
• Sand lance Gymnammodytes cicerellus

[edit] Sand smelts

• Sand smelt Atherina presbyter

[edit] Sea bream

• Black sea bream Spondyliosoma cantharus
• Red sea bream Pagellus bogaraveo

[edit] Smelts

• European smelt Osmerus eperlanus

[edit] Soles

• Dover sole Solea solea

[edit] Sticklebacks

• Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus
• Nine-spined stickleback Pungitius pungitius
• Fifteen-spined stickleback Spinachia spinachia

[edit] Sturgeons

• Common sturgeon Acipenser sturio

[edit] Sunfish

• Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides (introduced)
• Pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (introduced)

[edit] Whitefish

• Houting Coregonus oxyrinchus (extinct in Britain)
• Pollan Coregonus autumnalis
• Powan Coregonus lavaretus
• Vendace Coregonus albula

[edit] Wrasse

• Ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta
• Cuckoo wrasse Labrus mixtus

[edit] See also

• List of British birds
• List of British butterflies
• List of British mammals
• List of British reptiles
• List of British amphibians
• List of extinct animals of the British Isles
• Lists of insects recorded in Britain

[edit] References

• Fauna Britannica, Stefan Buczacki
• FishBase