2-syllable Fish that contain R

List of 2-syllable Fish that contain R

1

Barbel

Barbus barbus

A whiskered, powerful bottom-feeding cyprinid of European rivers, fighting hard against the current.

2

Brook Trout

Salvelinus fontinalis

A jewel-toned char native to eastern North American mountain streams, intolerant of warmth or pollution.

3

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

A widely transplanted European salmonid that has become the wild trout of cold streams across six continents.

4

Crappie

Pomoxis annularis

A schooling, paper-mouthed panfish of brushy lake structures, prized for its delicate white flesh.

5

Flounder

Platichthys flesus

A broad term for many flatfish species, found buried in soft bottoms from estuaries to the deep shelf.

6

Grouper

Epinephelus spp.

A heavy-bodied, big-mouthed reef ambush predator, encompassing dozens of species across tropical seas.

7

Herring

Clupea harengus

A schooling silvery clupeid of the North Atlantic, hugely important to fisheries and to the marine food web.

8

Lake Trout

Salvelinus namaycush

A large, slow-growing char of deep cold northern lakes, prized for its size, longevity, and oily flesh.

9

Sardine

Sardina pilchardus

A small, silvery, oil-rich schooling fish that has fed coastal populations from antiquity to the modern tin.

10

Sea Bream

Sparus aurata

A silver-gold Mediterranean reef fish, second only to sea bass in European marine aquaculture.

11

Sterlet

Acipenser ruthenus

A small Eurasian river sturgeon, once the source of Russia's "golden sterlet" caviar served to tsars.

12

Striped Bass

Morone saxatilis

A powerful anadromous game fish of the Atlantic coast, central to East Coast sport fishing.

13

Swordfish

Xiphias gladius

A solitary, sword-billed pelagic giant of the open ocean, capable of remarkable dives and turns of speed.

14

Turbot

Scophthalmus maximus

A large, diamond-shaped left-eyed flatfish of European seas, considered one of Europe's finest food fish.

15

Whale Shark

Rhincodon typus

The largest fish in the sea, a gentle filter-feeding shark that roams the world's tropical oceans.

16

Zander

Sander lucioperca

A European pike-perch with glassy eyes and canine teeth, prized as a sport fish and food fish.