Pelagic-neritic fish - Fish living in the pelagic-neritic environment

Order Anguilliformes

Leptocephalus ophichthoides

Order Atheriniformes

Jack silverside

Bright silverside

Membras vagrans

Pejerrey

Delta silverside

Marine sailfin silverside

Silverside

Atherina lopeziana

California grunion

Hypoatherina tsurugae

Tidewater silverside

Ogilby's hardyhead

Landia silverside

Atherinella nocturna

Flower of the wave

Atherinella beani

Kiener's silverside

Crenulated silverside

Atherinosoma elongata

Spatular-scale silverside

False grunion

Tide-water silverside - Inland silversides are quite elongate even for silverside, with lengths 6 to 7 times depth.

Odontesthes nigricans

Kestratherina esox

Pitcher silverside

Surf sprite

Mercer's tusked silverside - Mercer's tusked silverside originates from the western Central Pacific.

Atherinason hepsetoides

Phallostethus lehi

Odontesthes argentinensis

Topsmelt silverside - Atherinops affinis, the topsmelt silverside or simply topsmelt, is a species of neotropical silverside native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Rough silverside

Panama silverside

Guatemala silverside

Cape silverside

Whitley's silverside

Gulf grunion

Spotted hardyhead

Pricklenose silverside

Hawaiian Islands silverside

Key silverside - The key silverside is a U.

Silverside

Backwaters silverside

Broadstripe silverside

Samoan surf sardine

Moon silverside

Leptatherina presbyteroides

Order Aulopiformes

Synodus pylei

Stemonosudis miscella

Synodus sanguineus

Synodus mundyi

Saurida umeyoshii - The Shortfin saury lizardfish which is also known as Saurida argentea is a type of lizardfish or Synodontidae that lives mainly in the Western Pacific

Macroparalepis johnfitchi

Stemonosudis distans

Order Beloniformes

Sharpchin flyingfish

California flyingfish

Long billed half beak

California halfbeak

Strongylura notata forsythia

Cheilopogon intermedius

Hyporhamphus neglectus

Cheilopogon abei

Tringa flyingfish

Hyporhamphus kronei

Tropical half-beak fish

Hyporhamphus gernaerti

Bangkok halfbeak

Largescale flyingfish

Southeastern snub-nosed garfish

Pipefish

Silver needlefish - The freshwater garfish, Xenentodon cancila is the sole member of its genus.

Skipper halfbeak

Easter island flyingfish

Eastern river garfish

Exocoetus peruvianus

Butterfly flyingfish

Californian needlefish

Spotfin flyingfish

Hyporhamphus melanopterus

Danichthys ilma

Flyingfish

Shortfin halfbeak

Zenarchopterus xiphophorus

Cape halfbeak

Cypselurus hexazona

Keeltail needlefish

Bony flyingfish

Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus melanocercus

Malabar halfbeak

Japanese halfbeak

Hyporhamphus paucirastris

Philippine snubnose halfbeak - Melapedalion breve is a species of halfbeak.

Exocoetus gibbosus

Senegal needlefish

Cheilopogon katoptron

Halfbeak

White-finned flyingfish

American halfbeak

Three-by-two garfish

Choelo halfbeak

Zenarchopterus quadrimaculatus

Cypselurus starksi

Ornamented flyingfish

Short-nosed flying fish

Simpletooth halfbeak

Arabian flyingfish

Central American halfbeak

Smallhead flyingfish

Nomorhamphus australis

Strongylura fluviatilis

African sailfin flyingfish

Blotchwing flyingfish

Black-tipped garfish

Bluntnose flyingfish

Garfish

Bermuda halfbeak

Congaturi halfbeak

Zenarchopterus clarus

Cypselurus hiraii

Platybelone argalus platura

Sind halfbeak

Hirundichthys socotranus

Cheilopogon pitcairnensis

Rhynchorhamphus naga

Quoy's garfish

Blunt-snouted flying fish

D'urville's long-tom

Atlantic flyingfish - Like many other flyingfishes, the Atlantic flyingfish has a cylindrical body, and large tail and pectoral fins that it uses for flight.

False halfbeak

Blackspot flyingfish

Southern sea garfish

Shortfin flyingfish

Halfbeak - The New Zealand piper, Hyporhamphus ihi, is a halfbeak found all around New Zealand in shallow inshore waters.

Short garfish

Hyporhamphus acutus pacificus

Flyingfish

Hardhead - The hardhead halfbeak, Chriodorus atherinoides, is a species of halfbeak found across in coastal waters of the western Western Atlantic region from the southern USA to Mexico including Cuba and the Bahamas.

Manyspotted flyingfish

Hyporhamphus yuri

Order Carcharhiniformes

Blotched catshark - Reproduction is oviparous.

Order Characiformes

Salminus franciscanus

Steindachnerina notograptos

Order Clupeiformes

Blackburns's anchovy

Fringescale round herring - The Blue sprat, Spratelloides robustus, also known as the blue bait, blue sardineor bluebaitis, is a type of sprat fish.

Sardine

Bermuda anchovy

Reynald's grenadier anchovy

Herklotsichthys ovalis

Russell's smooth-back herring

Piquitinga anchovy

Anchovy

Smooth-belly sardinella

Blacksaddle herring

New Guinea thryssa - The freshwater anchovy is a species of fish in the Engraulidae family.

Gray's grenadier anchovy

Sind sardinella - Sind Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Day's round herring

Western Australian gizzard shad

Slender white sardine

Stolephorus shantungensis

Camiguana anchovy

China anchovy

Bigeyed longfin herring

Gautama thryssa

Madeiran sardinella - Madeiran Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Hidden ilisha

Pacific piquitinga

Rio anchovy

Fall herring - Alosa mediocris is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alosa.

Philippine anchovy

False indian anchovy

Slender thread herring

Yellowfin menhaden

Whitefin wolf-herring

Bleeker's blacktip sardinella - Bleeker's Blacktip Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Ilisha compressa

Anchovy

Anchovy

Cuban anchovy

Australian sprat

Caribbean longfin herring

Hilsa herring

American coastal pellona

Kelee shad

Silverstriped round herring - The Slender sprat, Spratelloides gracilis, is a type of sprat fish.

Anchoveta

Regan's anchovy

Pacific menhaden

Bareback anchovy

Australian spotted herring

Malabar thryssa

Ramcarat grenadier anchovy

Anchovy

Northern gulf anchovy

Azov shad - Alosa tanaica is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alosa.

Richardson's sardinella - Richardson's Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Banded ilisha

Nematalosa persara

Nelson's anchovy

Castelnau's herring

Marasri's thryssa

Pacific anchoveta

Blue herring - During mating season, assemble below dams in spring .

Chosa herring - Organisms of the species Clupea pallasii manifest a bluish-green dorsal area with silver-white sides and bellies; they are otherwise unmarked.

Yellowfin herring

Brazilian sardinella - Brazilian Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Kalimantan ilisha

Blackstripe herring

Humpback hairfin anchovy

Australian anchovy - The Australian anchovy feeds on plankton.

Broadhead anchovy

Vaqueira longfin herring

Day's thryssa

Longfinger anchovy

Thai gizzard shad

Gulf menhaden - The Gulf menhaden occurs throughout the Gulf of Mexico, but its distribution is heterogeneous.

Cayenne anchovy

Malabar sprat

Two-finned round herring

Carribean anchovy

Jenyns' sprat

American gizzard shad - Like other gizzard shads, the body is deep somewhat forward of the middle.

Day's pellona

Reunion herring

Trinidad anchovy

Bigfin anchovy

Goto's herring

Long-horned anchovy

Japanese grenadier anchovy

Pacific sardine - The South American pilchard, Sardinops sagax, is a sardine of the Family Clupeidae, the only member of the genus Sardinops, found in the indo-Pacific oceans.

Pacific sabretooth anchovy

Cuban longfin herring

Deep-bodied herring

Spotty-face anchovy

Anchoveta

Kyack - Alewives are perhaps best known for their invasion of the Great Lakes by using the Welland Canal to bypass Niagara Falls.

Perth herring

Californian anchovy

Commerson's anchovy

Slender tardoor

Hamilton's thryssa

Blueback glut herring - Blueback Shad is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Alosa.

Australian freshwater herring

Chinese gizzard shad

Marquesan sardinella - Marquesan Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Javan ilisha

Fiji sardinella - Fiji Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Pacific ilisha

Shorthead hairfin anchovy

Anchovy

Andhra anchovy

Middling thread herring

Pacific flatiron herring

Swatow thryssa

Bony fish - Menhaden historically occurred in large numbers in the North Atlantic, ranging from Nova Scotia, Canada to central Florida, USA, although their presence in northern waters has diminished in the 20th Century.

Eigenmann's anchovy

Poey's anchovy

Translucent sprat - The Glassy sprat, Hyperlophus translucidus, is a type of sprat fish.

Panama longfin herring

Gilchrist's round herring

Reeve's shad

Brazilian menhaden

Guinean sprat

Hasselt's sprat - Until the 1980s in the eastern Mediterranean slender rainbow sardines were frequently confused with the rainbow sardine .

Lewis' round herring

Balboa anchovy

Chame Point anchovy

Whitehead's round herring

Gulf herring

Whitehead's thryssa

Many-fingered grenadier anchovy

Starks's anchovy

Anchovy

Goldspotted grenadier anchovy

Yellowtail sardinella - Yellowtail Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Nematalosa resticularia

Ronquillo's anchovy

Herklotsichthys collettei

Humphead thryssa

Black Sea shad - Black Sea Shad is a species of fish in the Clupeidae family.

Equatorial longfin herring

Dussumier's thryssa

Bali sardinella - Bali Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Big eye ilisha

Atlantic piquitinga

European anchovy - It is easily distinguished by its deeply-cleft mouth, the angle of the gape being behind the eyes.

Gulf of Carpenteria anchovy

Heller's anchovy

Galapagos thread herring

Argentine menhaden

Spiny toothed herringlet

European pilchard - The terms sardine and pilchard are not precise, and the usual meanings vary by region; for instance, to many people a sardine is a young European pilchard.

African ilisha

Anchovy

Elongate anchovy

Falkland sprat - The Falkland sprat, Sprattus fuegensis, is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found in the subtropical southwest Atlantic Ocean from 40° S to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands.

Hilsa shad - As it is anadromous in nature , the hilsa lives in the sea for most of its life, but migrates up to 1,200 km inland through rivers in the Indian sub-continent for spawning.

Deep body anchovy

Konoshiro gizzard shad

Threadfin shad - The Threadfin Shad, Dorosoma petenense, is a small pelagic planktivor common in rivers, large streams, and reservoirs of the Southeastern United States.

Indian pellona

Walker's anchovy

Scofield's anchovy

Longfin Pacific anchovy

Tropical longfin herring

Bonga shad

Araucanian herring

Koningsberger's herring

Bengal thryssa

Pseudosetipinna haizhouensis

Neglected grenadier anchovy

False panama anchovy

Atlantic shad - The American shad or Atlantic shad, Alosa sapidissima, is a species of anadromous fish in family Clupeidae of order Clupeiformes.

Galathea gizzard shad

Anchoveta - Anchoveta are pelagic fish in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, and are regularly caught on the coasts of Peru, and Chile.

Thai anchovy

Blackburn's herring

Malabar thryssa

Atlantic anchoveta

Alabama shad - The Alabama shad spawns in medium to large flowing rivers from the Mississippi River drainage to the Suwannee River, Florida.

White Sea herring - Organisms of the species Clupea pallasii manifest a bluish-green dorsal area with silver-white sides and bellies; they are otherwise unmarked.

East african sardinella - East African Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Lobejaw ilisha

Taiwan sardinella - Taiwan Sardinella is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.

Crescent long-tailed ilisha

Graceful piquitinga

Dusky hairfin anchovy

Argentine anchoita - By biomass, it is the largest fish resource of the southwest Atlantic Ocean .

Bagan anchovy

Dove's longfin herring

Chefoo thryssa

Slender anchovy

Indonesian gizzard shad

Toli shad - Tenualosa toli or Ilsha Chandana is a shad of the Clupeidae family, available in western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal to the Java Sea and the South China Sea.

Finescale menhaden

Sandy sprat - The Sandy sprat, Hyperlophus vittatus, also known as the glassies, glassy, white pilchard, or whitebait, is a type of sprat fish.

Ganges river sprat

Order Cyprinodontiformes

Rainwater killifish - The rainwater killifish, is a species of fish in the Fundulidae family.

Lowland livebearer

Order Elopiformes

Tenpounder - This species is found in coastal regions of the Indian ocean.

Pacific ladyfish - The Pacific Tenpounders have very round bodies with terminal mouths, and profound gill formations known as pseudobranchiae.

Senegalese ladyfish - The Senegalese ladyfish grows to a maximum total length of 90 centimeters and a maximum weight of 5.

West African ladyfish - The West African ladyfish, Elops lacerta, is a species of fish in the Elopidae family.

Order Gadiformes

Bregmaceros neonectabanus

Big-eye unicorn-cod

Bregmaceros lanceolatus

Bregmaceros arabicus

Bregmaceros pescadorus

Codlet

Patagonian hake

Australian unicorn-cod

Bregmaceros pseudolanceolatus

Stellate codlet

Order Gobiesociformes

Sao Tom

Order Mugiliformes

Largescaled mullet

So-iny mullet

Eastern keelback mullet

Thoburn's mullet

Freshwater mullet

Bobo mullet

Striped mullet

Snouted mullet - Only one species in this genus is recorded in Fishbase .

Freshwater mullet

Robust mullet

Golden grey mullet

Fairy mullet

Order Myctophiformes

Idiolychnus urolampus

Order Ophidiiformes

Echiodon atopus

Lonely coralbrotula

Order Orectolobiformes

Floral banded wobbegong - The floral banded wobbegong is a recently described species of carpet shark found in the Indian Ocean off southwestern Australia.

Order Osmeriformes

Arctic rainbow smelt

Bathylagichthys parini

Plecoglossus altivelis chinensis - The name "sweetfish" is due to the sweetness of its flesh.

European smelt - The body of the European smelt is typically 15 to 18 cm long, slender and slightly flattened on either side.

Stokell's smelt - Stokell's smelt, Stokellia anisodon, is a smelt, the only member of the genus Stokellia, found in rivers between the Waiau and Waitaki Rivers on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

Eurachon - The common names of this fish have a somewhat confusing relationship.

Order Perciformes

Apogon melanopterus

Acanthopagrus chinshira

Longfin pompano

Steeplined drum

Japanese Spanish mackerel

Spanish mackerel

Spicara martinicus

Rapson's ponyfish

Parupeneus moffitti

Blue-fin tuna

Iniistius griffithsi

Barracuda

Manylined grunter

Pacific barracuda

Nelabrichthys ornatus

Bleekeria kallolepis

Giant trevally - The giant trevally is a powerful apex predator in most of its habitats, and is known to hunt individually and in schools.

Herring scad - The herring scad is one of five extant species in the scad genus Alepes, a group of fish in the jack family, Carangidae.

Pulauweh wrasse

Australian tuna

Samson fish - The samson fish is a jack of the genus Seriola.

Long barbeled grunter

Apogon rubellus

Cleftbelly trevally - The cleftbelly trevally is the only species in the genus Atropus, which is one of 31 genera in the jack family, Carangidae.

Acropoma boholensis

Pacific drum

Broad-barred king mackerel - The Broadbarred king mackerel, Scomberomorus semifasciatus, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

Threefinger threadfin

Small-eyed whipfin mojarra

Pentapodus numberii

Hoplolatilus geo

Shortfin pompano

Oyster pompano

Indian mackerel - The Indian mackerel is found in warm shallow waters along the coasts of the Indian and Western Pacific oceans.

Papuan seerfish

Blue knifefish - The blue knifefish, Labracoglossa nitida, is a sea chub of the genus Labracoglossa, found off eastern Australia, and around offshore islands of the east coast of New Zealand, to depths of 20 m.

Doydixodon laevifrons

Transparent goby

Herring cale

Spotted seabass

Windtoy

Chu's croaker

Pterocaesio flavifasciata

Eastern pomfred

Silverbelly seaperch

Lucas barracuda

Equulites laterofenestra

Xyrichtys koteamea

African moony - This species is quite widely kept in brackish and saltwater water aquaria; although it has only very rarely been bred in captivity, it is otherwise hardy and easy to care for.

Grape-eye seabass

Apogonichthys landoni

African threadfish - The African threadfish is one of three members of the diamond trevally genus Alectis, which itself is one of 33 genera encapsulated in the jack family Carangidae.

Demoiselle - The New Zealand demoiselle, Chromis dispilus, is a damselfish of the genus Chromis, found between North Cape and East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand to depths of about 60 metres, off rocky coasts.

Bonito - The green jack is formally classified within the genus Caranx, one of a number of groups of fish referred to as jacks and trevallies.

Shortjaw leatherjack

Halichoeres sazimai

Silvermouth trevally

Mexican bonito

Common dolphinfish - Although its common name is "dolphin-fish", the mahi-mahi is a fish not a dolphin, and is not at all related to the Delphinidae family of mammals whose common name is simply dolphin.

Sectator azureus

Apogon mydrus

Badger spiny basslet

Kanadi kingfish - The Kanadi kingfish, Scomberomorus plurilineatus, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

Scaled belly toothpony

Guinean pompano

Silver drum

Monterey Spanish mackerel

Blackspot picarel

Nuchequula mannusella

Trachinops caudimaculatus

Anatolanthias apiomycter

Protammodytes sarisa

Sphyraena waitii

Australian ruff - In Victoria and South Australia, it is commonly called the "Tommy Ruff".

Southern rays bream

Yellowfin snook

Mexican barracuda

Leerfish

Silver moony - One of the most commonly kept in brackish water aquaria.

Hypoplectrodes semicinctum

Atlantic bumper - The Atlantic bumper is best recognized by its profile, the bottom being much more curved than the top.

Apogon uninotatus

Bullet mackerel - The bullet tuna is a comparatively small and slender tuna.

Trachurus aleevi

Lepidammodytes macrophthalmus

Chinese seerfish

Swallowtail dart

Australian spotted mackerel - The Australian spotted mackerel, Scomberomorus munroi, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

Acanthistius fuscus

Manonichthys jamali

Long-finned pike - It is an elongated fish with a pointed snout and silver in color, similar in appearance to a barracuda, and grows up to 84 cm long.

Blotched picarel

Pterocaesio monikae

Woodwards pomfret

Amarsipus carlsbergi

Zoramia viridiventer

Iniistius auropunctatus

Sphyraena tome

Atlantic rubyfish

Guinean barracuda

Archamia flavofasciata

Grey knifefish - The grey knifefish, Bathystethus cultratus, is a sea chub of the genus Bathystethus, found in New Zealand.

Longfin crevalle jack - The longfin crevalle jack is classified within the genus Caranx, one of a number of groups known as the jacks or trevallies.

Blackfin scad - The blackfin scad is one of five species in the scad genus Alepes, which is one of 33 genera of the jack family, Carangidae.

Chromis planesi

Hapalogenys merguiensis

Pugnose ponyfish

Apogon radcliffei

Acropoma argentistigma

Shining drum

Queensland school mackerel - The Queensland school mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, is a species of fish in the family Scombridae.

East Asian fourfinger threadfin

Nonbanded whipfin mojarra

Pentaceros quinquespinis

Steel pompano

Wilson's weedfish

Eastern hulafish

Indian mackerel

Korean seerfish

Blacktail picarel

Spotnape ponyfish

Bigeye picarel

Northern kahawai

Lesser bream

Dactylanthias baccheti

Sphyraena iburiensis

Bonito

Xyrichtys cyanifrons

Monodactylus kottelati

Palomette

Plectranthias elaine

Apogon wilsoni

Longfin kingfish - The species, as it is currently recognised, was scientifically described and named by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1830, based on the holotype specimen taken from Massawa in the Red Sea.

Grammatonotus ambiortus

Planctanthias longifilis

Japanese jack mackerel

Australian bonito - The Australian bonito, horse mackerel or little bonito, Sarda australis, a fish of the family Scombridae, is found around eastern Australia and New Zealand in depths to about 30 m , in open water.

Tapiroid grunter

Yelloweye croaker

Order Rajiformes

Manta ehrenbergii

Lesser Guinean devil ray

Lesser devil ray - These rays live in shallow coastal waters and can be found singly or in large shoals.

Dasyatis colarensis - The Colares stingray was described by Hugo Santos, Ulisses Gomes, and Patricia Charvet-Almeida in 2004, in the scientific journal Zootaxa.

Giant devil ray - It is larger than the lesser devil ray, and it possesses a spiny tail.

Order Salmoniformes

Atlantic whitefish - The Atlantic whitefish is a freshwater salmonid fish inhabiting the northwestern Atlantic ocean around the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, as well as some freshwater lakes within Nova Scotia.

White char

Bering cisco

Cisco - This species occasionally grows as large as 40 cm and 2.

Order Scorpaeniformes

Brown bomber - The body of the widow rockfish is elongate and compressed.

Order Syngnathiformes

Monte Bello seahorse

Notopogon armatus

Syngnathus phlegon

Lost pipefish

Pacific cornetfish

Collared seahorse

Order Tetraodontiformes

Pelagic porcupinefish

Thamnaconus fijiensis

Puffer

Spotted triggerfish