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Angelfish
Pterophyllum scalare
A graceful, vertically banded freshwater cichlid of the Amazon, a staple of community aquariums worldwide.
Below are fish that contain the letter S anywhere in the name. Each of the 31 fish below opens to a full profile.
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List of Fish That Contain S
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Asian Arowana
Scleropages formosus
A long, ribbon-bodied tropical river fish revered as a "dragon fish" in Asian luxury aquaria.
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Atlantic Salmon
Salmo salar
A famous anadromous game fish of the North Atlantic, native to rivers from New England across to Russia.
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Beluga Sturgeon
Huso huso
A colossal, ancient sturgeon of the Caspian and Black Seas, source of the world's most valuable caviar.
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Channel Catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
A widespread, whiskered scavenger of North American rivers and lakes, the most-farmed freshwater fish in the United States.
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Chinook Salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
The largest Pacific salmon, the "king," whose great spawning runs once fed entire Northwest economies.
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Chum Salmon
Oncorhynchus keta
A widely distributed Pacific salmon with striking vertical bars at spawning, central to indigenous fisheries from Alaska to Japan.
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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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Coho Salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch
An acrobatic, silver-flanked Pacific salmon prized by sport anglers for its hard fights and surface strikes.
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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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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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Great White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
The largest predatory fish in the sea, an apex coastal hunter feared and admired in equal measure.
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Largemouth Bass
Micropterus salmoides
North America's most popular freshwater game fish, a stout predator of warm lakes, ponds, and slow rivers.
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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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Muskellunge
Esox masquinongy
The largest member of the pike family, a rare and elusive freshwater predator nicknamed "the fish of ten thousand casts."
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Parrotfish
Scarus spp.
A beak-toothed reef herbivore that grazes algae from corals, producing much of the white sand of tropical beaches.
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Pink Salmon
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
The smallest and most abundant Pacific salmon, with a strict two-year life cycle and a humped spawning male.
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Red Snapper
Lutjanus campechanus
A crimson reef fish of the Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic, central to American sport and seafood fisheries.
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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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Skipjack Tuna
Katsuwonus pelamis
A small, abundant pelagic tuna with horizontal belly stripes, the species behind most canned light tuna.
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Smallmouth Bass
Micropterus dolomieu
A hard-fighting game fish of clear, rocky rivers and northern lakes, prized for its strength relative to size.
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Sockeye Salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka
A deep-red-fleshed Pacific salmon famous for the spectacular spawning runs that turn river systems crimson.
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Sole
Solea solea
A small, slipper-shaped European flatfish prized for delicate flesh and dishes from Dover sole to meuniere.
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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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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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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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