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Barbel
Barbus barbus
A whiskered, powerful bottom-feeding cyprinid of European rivers, fighting hard against the current.
Looking for 2-syllable fish? Here are 26 fish that fit — each linked to a full profile.
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List of 2-syllable Fish
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Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
A common, palm-sized sunfish of North American ponds and lakes, instantly recognized by its dark gill flap.
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Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
A jewel-toned char native to eastern North American mountain streams, intolerant of warmth or pollution.
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Brown Trout
Salmo trutta
A widely transplanted European salmonid that has become the wild trout of cold streams across six continents.
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Clownfish
Amphiprion ocellaris
A small, orange-and-white reef fish famously immune to anemone stings and a household name since "Finding Nemo."
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Crappie
Pomoxis annularis
A schooling, paper-mouthed panfish of brushy lake structures, prized for its delicate white flesh.
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Discus
Symphysodon aequifasciatus
A disc-shaped, slow-moving Amazon cichlid bred into a kaleidoscope of color strains for the aquarium trade.
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Flounder
Platichthys flesus
A broad term for many flatfish species, found buried in soft bottoms from estuaries to the deep shelf.
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Goldfish
Carassius auratus
The world's most-kept ornamental fish, domesticated from a small East Asian carp over a thousand years ago.
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Grouper
Epinephelus spp.
A heavy-bodied, big-mouthed reef ambush predator, encompassing dozens of species across tropical seas.
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Guppy
Poecilia reticulata
A tiny, colorful livebearer from the Caribbean, one of the most successful aquarium and biology lab fish in the world.
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Haddock
Melanogrammus aeglefinus
A North Atlantic gadoid with a black thumbprint mark, the classic fish in British fish and chips.
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Herring
Clupea harengus
A schooling silvery clupeid of the North Atlantic, hugely important to fisheries and to the marine food web.
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Lake Trout
Salvelinus namaycush
A large, slow-growing char of deep cold northern lakes, prized for its size, longevity, and oily flesh.
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Pollock
Pollachius pollachius
A North Atlantic gadoid harvested at huge scale, the white-fleshed backbone of fish fingers and surimi.
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Sailfish
Istiophorus platypterus
A high-speed billfish with a towering dorsal sail, often called the fastest fish in the sea.
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Sardine
Sardina pilchardus
A small, silvery, oil-rich schooling fish that has fed coastal populations from antiquity to the modern tin.
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Sea Bass
Dicentrarchus labrax
A silver-flanked predator of European coasts, prized in Mediterranean cuisine and farmed across the region.
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Sea Bream
Sparus aurata
A silver-gold Mediterranean reef fish, second only to sea bass in European marine aquaculture.
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Sterlet
Acipenser ruthenus
A small Eurasian river sturgeon, once the source of Russia's "golden sterlet" caviar served to tsars.
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Striped Bass
Morone saxatilis
A powerful anadromous game fish of the Atlantic coast, central to East Coast sport fishing.
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Swordfish
Xiphias gladius
A solitary, sword-billed pelagic giant of the open ocean, capable of remarkable dives and turns of speed.
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Turbot
Scophthalmus maximus
A large, diamond-shaped left-eyed flatfish of European seas, considered one of Europe's finest food fish.
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Walleye
Sander vitreus
A golden, glass-eyed perch of northern lakes and rivers, prized for its mild white flesh.
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Whale Shark
Rhincodon typus
The largest fish in the sea, a gentle filter-feeding shark that roams the world's tropical oceans.
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Zander
Sander lucioperca
A European pike-perch with glassy eyes and canine teeth, prized as a sport fish and food fish.
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