We also provide the largest freshwater aquarium fish bibliography ever published. Further it cites the use of the names in the aquarium literature and the list also provides an overview of the known species of freshwater fish. This current list can already be used for finding the currently valid names and the correct spelling of these names. to present an overview of the freshwater and brackish water fishes recorded during the last centuries in various aquarium books.Īlthough many scientific names are likely to change with scientific progress, we nevertheless present the list of currently valid scientific names now.

to present some aquarium book citations.to list some scientific names wrongly used by aquarists.to list Dutch and some frequently used English vernacular names of freshwater aquarium fishes and freshwater aquacultural fishes.to stimulate the use of correctly written scientific names.to list the currently valid and correctly written scientific name of every recent freshwater fish species.Also listed are the English and Dutch vernacular names in use for freshwater fishes and the various English (common) names of the freshwater aquarium fishes. An alphabetic list with the scientific names of all known recent freshwater fish species is presented (18,249 fish species divided over 49 orders, 224 families and 2,372 genera according to our definition of freshwater fishes).

Freshwater fish names