Marine Fish by Latin Name

• Abudefduf saxatilis (sergeant major damsel)
• Acanthurus achilles (achilles tang)
• Acanthurus coeruleus (blue tang)
• Acanthurus japonicus (white face tang)
• Acanthurus leucosternon (powder blue tang)
• Acanthurus lineatus (clown tang)
• Acanthurus nigricans (yellow fin tang, powder brown tang)
• Acanthurus nigrofuscus (brown tang)
• Acanthurus olivaceus (orange shoulder tang)
• Acanthurus pyroferus (yellow mimic tang)
• Acanthurus sohal (sohal tang)
• Acanthurus triostegus (convict tang)
• Aeoliscus strigatus (razorfish)
• Amblycirrhitus pinos (redspotted hawkfish)
• Amblyeleotris guttata (spotted shrimpgoby)
• Amblyeleotris randalli (Randall's shrimpgoby)
• Amblyglyphidodon sp. (pearl damsel)
• Amblygobius sp. (banded goby)
• Amphiprion akindynos (barrier reef anemonefish)
• Amphiprion allardi (Allard's clownfish)
• Amphiprion chrysopterus (blue striped clownfish, orange-finned clownfish)
• Amphiprion clarkii (Clark's clownfish)
• Amphiprion frenatus (tomato clown)
• Amphiprion leucokranos (white bonnet clown)
• Amphiprion melanopus (tomato clown, cinnamon clown)
• Amphiprion ocellaris (false clownfish, ocellaris clown)
• Amphiprion percula (true clownfish, percula clown)
• Amphiprion perideraion (skunk clown, pink clownfish)
• Amphiprion polymnus (saddleback clown)
• Amphiprion sebae (sebae clown)
• Amphiprion tricinctus (three band clown)
• Apogon cyanosoma (striped cardinal)
• Apogon fleurieu (white cardinal, flower cardinal)
• Apogon maculatus (flamefish)
• Apogon quadrisquamatus (red cardinal)
• Apolemichthys trimaculatus (flagfin angel)
• Apolemichthys xanthopunctatus (gold spangled angel, goldflake angel)
• Apolemichthys xanthurus (Indian smoke angel)
• Arothron diadematus (panda puffer)
• Arothron hispidus (white-spotted puffer)
• Arothron manilensis (striped puffer)
• Arothron meleagris (yellow dogfaced puffer)
• Arothron nigropunctatus (dogfaced puffer fish)
• Balistapus undulatus (undulated trigger)
• Balistoides conspicillum (clown trigger)
• Bodianus axillaris (axilspot hogfish)
• Bodianus loxozonus (banner wrasse, hogfish)
• Bodianus mesothorax (blackbelt hogfish)
• Bodianus puchellus (Cuban hogfish)
• Calloplesiops altivelis (marine betta)
• Canthigaster bennetti (blue line toby)
• Canthigaster rostrata (sharpnose puffer)
• Canthigaster solandri (jewel puffer)
• Canthigaster solandri (spotted toby)
• Canthigaster valentini (valentine puffer)
• Cebidichthys violaceus (monkeyface eel)
• Centropyge acanthops (yellow and blue angel)
• Centropyge aurantia (golden angel)
• Centropyge bicolor (bicolor angel)
• Centropyge bispinosa (coral beauty)
• Centropyge debelius (blue Mauritius angel)
• Centropyge ferrugata (rusty angel )
• Centropyge flavissima (lemonpeel angel)
• Centropyge interrupta (Japanese pygmy angel)
• Centropyge joculator (joculator angel)
• Centropyge loricula (flame angel)
• Centropyge multispinis (black angel)
• Centropyge nahackyi (Nahacky's pygmy angel)
• Centropyge resplendens (resplendent pygmy angel)
• Centropyge sp. (blue angel)
• Centropyge tibicen (tibicin angel)
• Centropyge venusta (purple masked angel, blueback angel)
• Centropyge vroliki (half black angel)
• Cephalopholis miniata (red spotted grouper)
• Chaetodermis pencilligerus (tassled file fish)
• Chaetodon aculeatus (longsnout butterfly)
• Chaetodon argentatus (asian butterfly)
• Chaetodon auriga (auriga butterfly, theadfin butterfly)
• Chaetodon auripes (oriental butterfly)
• Chaetodon austriacus (exquisite butterfly)
• Chaetodon baronessa (eastern triangular butterfly)
• Chaetodon bennetti (Bennet's butterfly, eclipse butterfly)
• Chaetodon capistratus (foureye butterfly)
• Chaetodon collare (Pakistani butterfly)
• Chaetodon declivis (Marquesan butterfly)
• Chaetodon decussatus (Indian vagabond butterfly)
• Chaetodon ephippium (saddle-back butterfly)
• Chaetodon falcula (Indian double-saddle butterfly)
• Chaetodon fremblii (blue striped butterfly)
• Chaetodon guttatissimus (pebble butterfly)
• Chaetodon interruptus (Indian teardrop butterfly)
• Chaetodon kleinii (Klein's butterfly, blacklip butterfly)
• Chaetodon larvatus (orange-face butterfly)
• Chaetodon lineolatus (lined butterfly)
• Chaetodon lunnulatus (Pacific red-fin butterfly)
• Chaetodon lunula (racoon butterfly)
• Chaetodon melannotus (black-backed butterfly)
• Chaetodon mertensii (Merten's butterfly, yellowback butterfly)
• Chaetodon mesoleucos (white face butterfly)
• Chaetodon meyeri (Meyer's butterfly)
• Chaetodon mitratus (Indian butterfly)
• Chaetodon multicinctus (pebble butterfly)
• Chaetodon ocellicaudus (spot tailed butterfly)
• Chaetodon octofasciatus (striped butterfly)
• Chaetodon ornatissimus (clown butterfly, ornate butterfly)
• Chaetodon oxycephalus (spot-nape butterfly)
• Chaetodon paucifasciatus (redback butterfly)
• Chaetodon pelewensis (dot & dash butterfly)
• Chaetodon plebius (bluespot butterfly)
• Chaetodon punctatofasciatus (sunset butterfly , spot-banded butterfly)
• Chaetodon quadrimaculatus (four-spot butterfly)
• Chaetodon rafflesi (latticed butterfly)
• Chaetodon sedentarius (resting butterfly)
• Chaetodon semeion (dotted butterfly)
• Chaetodon semilarvatus (golden butterfly)
• Chaetodon smithi (Smith's butterfly)
• Chaetodon striatus (banded butterfly)
• Chaetodon tinkeri (Tinker's butterfly)
• Chaetodon trifascialis (chevroned butterfly)
• Chaetodon ulietensis (pacific double-saddle butterfly)
• Chaetodon unimaculatus (teardrop butterfly, one-spot butterfly)
• Chaetodon vagabundus (vagabond butterfly)
• Chaetodon wiebeli (Wiebel's butterfly)
• Chaetodon xanthocephalus (yellowhead butterfly)
• Chaetodon xanthurus (orange tail butterfly, pearl scale butterfly, crosshatch butterfly)
• Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus (blue-spotted angel)
• Chaetodontoplus dimidiatus (phantom angel)
• Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (keyhole angel, black velvet angelfish)
• Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Singapore angel, vermiculated angel)
• Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis (blue striped angel)
• Cheilinus fasciatus (redbreasted wrasse)
• Cheilodipterus isostigmus (toothy cardinal)
• Chelmon muelleri (Mueller's butterfly )
• Chelmon rostratus (copper banded butterfly, beaked coralfish)
• Chilomycterus sp. (striped burrfish)
• Chiloscyllium punctatum (banded shark)
• Choerodon fasciata (harlequin tuskfish)
• Chromis atripectoralis (black axil chromis)
• Chromis cyanea (blue chromis)
• Chromis insolata (sunshine fish, olive chromis)
• Chromis lepidolepis (chromis)
• Chromis mirationis (Japanese chromis)
• Chromis okamurai (Okinawa chromis)
• Chromis retrofasciata (black back chromis)
• Chromis sp. (silver chromis)
• Chromis viridis (green chromis, blue green chromis)
• Chrysiptera biocellata (twospot demoiselle)
• Chrysiptera brownriggii (blue streak damsel, surge damsel)
• Chrysiptera cyanea (electric blue damsel, blue devil)
• Chrysiptera hemicyanea (yellow tailed damsel)
• Chrysiptera oxycephala (bluespot damsel)
• Chrysiptera parasema (yellow tailed damsel)
• Chrysiptera rollandi (Rolland's damsel)
• Chrysiptera springeri (Springer's damsel)
• Chrysiptera starcki (Starck's damsel)
• Chrysiptera taupou (blue star damsel)
• Cirrhilabrus adornatus (Debilius' fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus aurantidorsalis (orangeback fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus balteatus (girdled fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus bathyphilus (deep-sea fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus condei (Conde's fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura (blue sided fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus exquisitus (exquisite fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus filamentosus (whip-fin fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis (yellowfin fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus johnsoni (Johnson's fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus jordani (flame fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus laboutei (Laboute's fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus lineatus (lavender fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus lubbocki (Lubbock's fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus lunatus (crescent-tail fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus luteovittatus (yellow banded fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus rubrisquamis (red-scaled fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus solorensis (red headed fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhilabrus tonozukai (Tono's fairy wrasse)
• Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (spotted hawk, pixy hawkfish)
• Coradion melanopus (two eyed coralfish)
• Coris aygula (clown coris wrasse)
• Coris gaimard (blue spotted wrasse, coris wrasse, yellow tail wrasse)
• Coryphopterus lipernes (peppermint goby)
• Corythoichthys amplexus (brown-banded pipefish)
• Corythoichthys flavofasciatus (network pipefish)
• Corythoichthys ocellatus (orange-spotted pipefish)
• Cromileptes altivelis (panther grouper)
• Cryptocentrus caeruleomaculatus (blue-speckled shrimpgoby)
• Cryptocentrus cinctus (yellow watchmann goby)
• Cryptocentrus leptocephalus (pink spotted shrimp goby)
• Ctenochaetus striatus (kole tang, yellow eye tang)
• Dascyllus aruanus (three striped damsel)
• Dascyllus marginatus (black and white damsel)
• Dascyllus melanurus (three striped damsel)
• Dascyllus sp. (dusty damsel)
• Dascyllus trimaculatus (domino damsel)
• Dendrochirus biocellatus (Fu Manchu lion fish)
• Dendrochirus brachypterus (dwarf lion fish)
• Dendrochirus zebra (zebra lionfish)
• Diodon holacanthus (porcupine puffer, balloonfish)
• Diodon hystrix (porcupinefish)
• Diodon liturosus (black-blotched porcupinefish)
• Doryrhamphus dactyliophorus (striped pipe fish)
• Doryrhamphus sp. (pipefish)
• Echidna nebulosa (snowflake moray eel)
• Ecsenius bicolor (bicolor blenny)
• Epibulus insidiator (slingjaw wrasse)
• Epinephelus caeruleopunctatus (white spotted grouper)
• Equetus acuminatus (high hat)
• Equetus punctatus (spotted drum)
• Forcipiger flavissimus (forceps fish)
• Genicanthus bellus (ornate angel)
• Genicanthus lamarck (lamark angel)
• Gobiodon citrinus (lemon coralgoby, blue stripe goby)
• Gobiodon histrio (clown goby, broadbarred goby)
• Gobiosoma oceanops (neon goby)
• Gobiosoma sp (linesnout goby)
• Gomphosus varius (brown bird wrasse, green bird wrasse)
• Gramma brasiliensis (Brazilian gramma)
• Gramma loreto (royal gramma)
• Gramma melacara (blackcap basslet)
• Gymnothorax flavimarginatus (yellowmargin moray)
• Gymnothorax javanicus (giant moray)
• Gymnothorax moringa (spotted moray eel)
• Halichoeres garnoti (yellowhead wrasse)
• Halichoeres hortulanus (checkerboard wrasse)
• Hemitaurichthys polylepis (pyramid butterfly)
• Heniochus acuminatus (black and white heniochus, long-fin bannerfish)
• Heniochus chrysostomus (pennant bannerfish)
• Heniochus diphreutes (schooling bannerfish)
• Heniochus monoceros (masked bannerfish)
• Heniochus singularius (singular bannerfish)
• Heniochus varius (humphead bannerfish)
• Heteroconger hassi (spotted garden eel)
• Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (glasseye snapper)
• Hippocampus abdominalis (pot bellied seahorse)
• Hippocampus barbouri (yellow seahorse, Barbour's seahorse)
• Hippocampus capensis (Knysna seahorse)
• Hippocampus erectus (lined seahorse)
• Hippocampus fuscus (sea pony)
• Hippocampus kuda (black seahorse)
• Hippocampus reidi (Brazillian seahorse)
• Holacanthus ciliaris (queen angel)
• Holacanthus passer (passer angel)
• Holacanthus tricolor (rock beauty angel)
• Holanthias borbonius (yellow spotted anthias)
• Holocentrus hastatus (striped squirrel)
• Hoplolatilus marcosi (redstripe tilefish)
• Hoplolatilus starcki (blue jaw tilefish, blue head tilefish)
• Hypsypops rubicunda (garibaldi)
• Labroides dimidiatus (cleaner wrasse)
• Labroides pectoralis (golden cleaner wrasse)
• Larabicus quadrilineatus (four-line wrasse)
• Leiuranus semicinctus (saddled snake eel)
• Liopropoma swalesi (candy basslet, swalesi basslet)
• Lutjanus kasmira (bluestripe snapper)
• Lutjanus sebae (red emperor snapper)
• Lythrypnus dalli (catalina goby)
• Macropharyngodon meleagris (leopard wrasse)
• Malacoctenus boehlkei (diamond blenny)
• Monacanthus tuckeri (slender filefish)
• Muraena lentiginosa (jewel moray)
• Myrichthys colubrinus (banded snake eel)
• Naso annulatus (whitemargin unicornfish)
• Naso brevirostris (spotted unicornfish)
• Naso lituratus (naso tang)
• Naso unicornis (unicorn tang)
• Nemateleotris decora (purple fire goby)
• Nemateleotris magnifica (fire goby)
• Neocirrhitus armatus (flame hawk)
• Neoglyphidodon crossi (fire damsel)
• Neoglyphidodon nigroris (black and gold chromis)
• Neoglyphidodon oxyodon (black velvet damsel)
• Neosynchiropus ocellatus (scooter blenny)
• Novaculichthys taeniourus (dragon wrasse, rockmover wrasse)
• Odonus niger (redtooth trigger, niger trigger)
• Opistognathus aurifrons (golden head jawfish, pearly jawfish, yellowhead jawfish)
• Ostracion cubicus (spotted yellow boxfish)
• Ostracion meleagris (spotted boxfish)
• Oxycheilinus rhodochrous (oriental wrasse)
• Oxycirrhites typus (longnose hawk)
• Oxymonacanthus longirostris (longnose filefish)
• Paracanthurus hepatus (hippo tang, palette tang)
• Parachaetodon ocellatus (ocellated butterfly)
• Paracheilinus cyaneus (blue flasher wrasse)
• Paracheilinus filamentosus (filamented flasher)
• Paracheilinus flavianalis (yellowfin flasher)
• Paracheilinus lineopunctatus (spot-lined flasher)
• Paracheilinus mccoskeri (McCosker's Flasher)
• Paracirrhites arcatus (arc eye hawkfish)
• Paracirrhites forsteri (freckled hawkfish)
• Paragobiodon echinocephalus (yellow goby, redhead goby)
• Parupeneus multifasciatus (manybar goatfish)
• Pervagor spilosoma (spotted trigger)
• Pholidichthys leucotaenia (engineer fish)
• Phycodurus eques (leafy sea dragon)
• Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (weedy sea dragon)
• Pictichromis diadema (bicolor pseudochromis, bicolor dottyback)
• Pictichromis paccagnellae (royal dottyback)
• Pictichromis porphyrea (purple pseudochromis, purple dottyback)
• Platax orbicularis (orbic batfish, circular spadefish)
• Platax pinnatus (pinnatus batfish)
• Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides (clown sweetlips, spotted sweetlips)
• Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus (jewel damsel)
• Pomacanthus annularis (blue ringed angel)
• Pomacanthus arcuatus (grey angelfish)
• Pomacanthus asfur (arabian angel, crescent angel)
• Pomacanthus chrysurus (ear-spot angel)
• Pomacanthus imperator (imperator angel, emperor angel)
• Pomacanthus maculosus (half moon angel, map angel)
• Pomacanthus navarchus (blue-girdled angel)
• Pomacanthus paru (French angel)
• Pomacanthus semicirculatus (Koran angel, semi-circle angel)
• Pomacentrus armillatus (honey damsel, borneo damsel)
• Premnas biaculeatus (maroon clown)
• Pristigenys alta (short bigeye)
• Prognathodes dichrous (hedgehog butterfly)
• Prognathodes guyanensis (threeband butterfly)
• Pseudanthias engelhardi (yellow anthias)
• Pseudanthias parvirostris (sunset anthias)
• Pseudanthias pleurotaenia (square anthias)
• Pseudanthias sp. (lyre tailed anthias)
• Pseudanthias squamipinnis (lyretail anthias, scalefin anthias)
• Pseudanthias tuka (purple anthias)
• Pseudochelinus hexataenia (six line wrasse)
• Pseudochromis aldabraensis (neon dottyback)
• Pseudochromis fridmani (orchid dottyback)
• Pseudochromis tonozukai (Tono's dottyback, spot-stripe dottyback)
• Pseudoplesiops rosae (largescaled dottyback)
• Pterapogon kauderni (bangghai cardinal)
• Ptereleotris evides (scissor tail goby )
• Ptereleotris heteroptera (spottail dartfish)
• Ptereleotris zebra (bar goby, zebra goby)
• Pterois antennata (antenna lion, spotfin lionfish)
• Pterois radiata (clearfin lionfish)
• Pterois volitans (volitan lion, common lionfish)
• Pygoplites diacanthus (regal angel)
• Rhinecanthus aculeatus (humu humu trigger, Picasso trigger)
• Rhinecanthus verrucosus (bursa trigger, blackpatch trigger)
• Rhinomuraena quaesita (ribbon eel)
• Rhinopias frondosa (weedy scorpionfish)
• Salarias fasciatus (lawnmower blenny, algae blenny)
• Scarus sp. (parrotfish)
• Scorpaena plumieri (spotted scorpion fish)
• Selene brevoortii (Mexican lookdown)
• Serranus tigrinus (harlequin basslet)
• Siganus doliatus (double barred spinefoot, barred rabbitfish)
• Siganus punctatus (spotted rabbitfish)
• Siganus sp. (rabbitfish)
• Siganus unimaculatus (one-spot foxface)
• Siganus uspi (bicolor rabbitfish)
• Siganus vulpinus (foxface)
• Solenostomus paegnius (roughsnout ghost pipefish)
• Sphaeramia nematoptera (pajama cardinal)
• Sphaeramia orbicularis (orbic cardinal)
• Stonogobiops dracura (dracula goby)
• Stonogobiops xanthorhinica (striped goby)
• Sufflamen bursa (white line trigger , scythe trigger, bursa trigger)
• Sufflamen sp. (white tail trigger)
• Synanceia horrida (horrid stonefish)
• Synchiropus morrisoni (Morrison's dragonet)
• Synchiropus ocellatus (ocellated dragonet)
• Synchiropus picturatus (green mandarin)
• Synchiropus splendidus (blue mandarin, dragonette)
• Taeniura lymma (blue spotted stingray)
• Tetraodon nigrifilis (spotted puffer, green spotted puffer, leopard puffer)
• Tetrosomus gibbosus (yellow boxfish)
• Thalassoma duperreyi (saddle wrasse)
• Thalassoma hardwicke (sixbar wrasse)
• Thalassoma lucasanum (paddle wrasse)
• Thalassoma lunare (lunar wrasse)
• Thalassoma sp. (yellow wrasse)
• Thalassoma trilobatum (ladder wrasse)
• Thalassoma trilobatum (Christmas wrasse, ladder wrasse)
• Triakis semifasciatus (leopard shark)
• Trimma rubromaculatus (red-spotted dwarfgoby)
• Tryssogobius colini (dartfish goby)
• Urolophus sp. (yellow stingray)
• Valenciennea puellaris (orange spotted sleeper goby)
• Valenciennea strigata (yellowhead sleeper goby, blue cheek goby)
• Xanthichthys mento (peach faced trigger)
• Xyrichtys martinicensis (rosy razorfish)
• Yongeichthys nebulosus (spotted goby, shadow goby)
• Zanclus comutus (Moorish idol)
• Zebrasoma desjardinii (sailfin tang)
• Zebrasoma flavescens (yellow tang)
• Zebrasoma scopas (scopas tang, brown sailfin tang)
• Zebrasoma veliferum (sailfin tang)
• Zebrasoma xanthurus (purple tang)