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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.
Looking for 8-letter fish? Here are 8 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 8-letter Fish
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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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Lionfish
Pterois volitans
A venomous, ornately finned reef fish, beautiful in its native Pacific and devastating as an Atlantic invader.
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Mahi-Mahi
Coryphaena hippurus
A brilliantly colored, fast-growing pelagic predator of tropical seas, prized by sport anglers and chefs alike.
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Manta Ray
Mobula birostris
A graceful, plankton-feeding ray with the largest wingspan of any fish, a star of tropical reef tourism.
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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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Sea Bream
Sparus aurata
A silver-gold Mediterranean reef fish, second only to sea bass in European marine aquaculture.
About 8-letter fish
That's our current list of fish with exactly 8 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 8-letter fish that start with A.