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Barbel
Barbus barbus
A whiskered, powerful bottom-feeding cyprinid of European rivers, fighting hard against the current.
Looking for 6-letter fish? Here are 6 fish that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 6-letter Fish
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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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Plaice
Pleuronectes platessa
A right-eyed European flatfish with bright orange spots, central to North Sea trawl fisheries.
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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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Wrasse
Labridae spp.
A diverse family of reef fish noted for vivid colors, protogynous sex change, and the role of cleaner species.
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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.
About 6-letter fish
That's our current list of fish with exactly 6 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 6-letter fish that start with A.