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Gravel chub, Hybopsis x-punctata [36] Highland stoneroller, Campostoma spadiceum [37] Hornyhead chub, Nocomis biguttatus [38] Ironcolor shiner, Notropis chalybaeus [39] Largescale stoneroller, Campostoma oligolepis [40] Mississippi silvery minnow, Hybognathus nuchalis [41] Ozark chub, Erimystax harryi [42]
Critically endangered (CR) species face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of July 2017, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 1,000 critically endangered fish species, including 87 which are tagged as possibly extinct. Of all evaluated fish species, 3.0% are listed as critically endangered. The IUCN ...
An invasive species. Rainbow smelt are anadromous and move from saltwater to freshwater streams to spawn. They can live completely in freshwater and habit rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs. They are invasive because they eat larva of other species and species food resources but not only that fish species eggs.
Of all evaluated fish species, 4.2% are listed as endangered. The IUCN also lists ten fish subspecies as endangered. Of the subpopulations of fishes evaluated by the IUCN, 24 species subpopulations have been assessed as endangered. For a species to be considered endangered by the IUCN it must meet certain quantitative criteria which are ...
Extinct species. Ukrainian migratory lamprey Eudontomyzon sp. 'migratory' Possibly extinct species. Tetrapleurodon spadiceus (Tetrapleurodon spadiceus) Ray-finned fishes. There are 64 extinct species, 85 possibly extinct species, and six extinct in the wild species of ray-finned fish evaluated by the IUCN. Acipenseriformes
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
There are over 177 species of fish in the US state of Oklahoma, at least 7% of which are not native. Species include: Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae) Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) American eel (Anguilla rostrata) American gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini)