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Cardinal Tetra
Paracheirodon axelrodi
A brilliant Amazon tetra distinguished from the neon by a full-length crimson stripe, harvested largely from wild stocks.
If you've been searching for fish that start with C, you'll find 9 detailed fish below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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List of Fish That Start With C
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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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Chub
Squalius cephalus
A bold, wide-mouthed cyprinid of European rivers, willing to eat almost anything and easy to spot under tree cover.
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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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Common Carp
Cyprinus carpio
A hardy, widely introduced Eurasian cyprinid, both prized food fish and notorious global invader.
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Crappie
Pomoxis annularis
A schooling, paper-mouthed panfish of brushy lake structures, prized for its delicate white flesh.
About fish starting with C
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