Fish Database
I collected these photographs over many years from a variety of locations, including the Carribbean, the New York area, the outer banks of North Carolina, the St. Lawrence River, Florida, Newfoundland, the Pacific northwest, Micronesia and southern California. I have done my best to confirm the identity of each species, using printed sources, online resources and the wisdom of many helpful experts in the field. I have included my best image of each species, although some are represented by several examples to show detail, intermediate phases or other variants. Click on the thumbnails to see a larger image, the scientific name of the species and the location where the photo was taken. -Michael Rothschild
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Almaco Jack
American Eel
Atlantic Bigeye
Atlantic Bigeye
Atlantic Spadefish
Atlantic Spadefish
Atlantic Spadefish, faded variant
Balloonfish, AKA Longspine Porcupinefish
Balloonfish, AKA Longspine Porcupinefish
Balloonfish, AKA Longspine Porcupinefish
Banded Butterflyfish
Banded Butterflyfish
Banded Guitarfish
Banded Rudderfish
Bandtail Puffer
Bandtail Puffer
Bar Jack
Bar Jack, dark phase
Bar Jack
Barred Hamlet
Barred Hamlet
Butter Hamlet / Barred Hamlet hybrid
Barrelfish (AKA Driftfish)
Bay Goby
Belted Cardinalfish
Belted Cardinalfish
Belted Cardinalfish
Belted Cardinalfish
Belted Sandfish
Bermuda Chub
Bermuda Chub
Bicolor Damselfish
Bicolor Damselfish
Bicolor Damselfish
Bigeye Scad
Bigeye Scad
Black Durgon
Black Durgon
Black Grouper
Black Grouper
Black Grouper, color variant
Black Jack
Black Margate
Black Perch
Black Seabass, female coloration
Black Seabass, juvenile form, striped phase
Black Seabass, juvenile form
Black Seabass, female coloration
Black Seabass, Male and Female forms
Blackbar Soldierfish
Blackbar Soldierfish
Blackcap Basslet
Blacklip Butterflyfish
Blacklip Butterflyfish
Blacksmith
Blacktip Reef Shark
Blue Angelfish
Blue Angelfish
Blue Angelfish, Juvenile
Blue Chromis
Blue Chromis
Blue Parrotfish
Blue Parrotfish
Blue Spotted Toby (AKA Solander's Toby), Juvenile
Blue Tang
Blue Tang, intermediate form
Blue Tang, Juvenile
Blue Tang
Bluebanded Goby
Bluefin Trevally (AKA Blue Spotted Jack)
Bluefin Trevally (AKA Blue Spotted Jack)
Bluehead
Bluehead, juvenile form
Bluehead, intermediate form
Bluehead, juvenile form
Bluehead, juvenile form
Bluestreak Fusilier
Bluestriped Grunt
Bluestriped Grunt
Bluestriped Lizardfish
Boga
Boga
Bridled Burrfish
Bridled Goby
Bronzestriped Grunt
Brown Chromis
Brown Chromis
Brown Chromis
Brown Garden Eel
Brown Rockfish
Butter Hamlet
Butter Hamlet
Butter Hamlet, pale variant
C-O Sole
California Scorpionfish
California Sheephead, Female
California Sheephead, Male
California Sheephead, Female
Caribbean Reef Shark
Caribbean Reef Shark
Cero
Chestnut Blenny
Clark's Anemonefish, Orange Variation
Cocoa Damselfish, Juvenile form
Cocoa Damselfish, intermediate form
Coney
Coney
Coney
Conger Eel
Conger Eel
Cottonwick
Cottonwick
Creole Wrasse
Creole Wrasse, Juvenile
Creole Wrasse
Creolefish
Cunner juvenile (AKA Bergall)
Cunner (AKA Bergall)
Cunner (AKA Bergall)
Doctorfish
Doctorfish
Dog Snapper
Dog Snapper
Doublespot Wrasse (AKA Red-Lined Wrasse), Juvenile
Dusky Cardinalfish
Dusky Cardinalfish
Dusky Squirrelfish
Fairy Basslet
False Moorish Idol
Fivelined Cardinalfish
Flamefish
Flamefish
Flying Gurnard
Four Eye Butterflyfish
Four Eye Butterflyfish
Foxface Rabbitfish
French Angelfish
French Angelfish
French Angelfish, juvenile form
French Angelfish, intermediate form
French Grunt
French Grunt
French Grunt
French Grunt, Intermediate form
French Grunt, Juvenile form
Freshwater drum, AKA Sheephead
Garibaldi
Garibaldi, juvenile form
Garibaldi, intermediate form
Garibaldi
Giant Kelpfish
Glass Goby
Glasseye Snapper
Glasseye Snapper, pale form
Glasseye Snapper
Glasseye Snapper
Glassy Sweeper
Goldentail Moray
Goldentail Moray
Goldfish
Goldspot Goby
Goliath Grouper
Goliath Grouper
Gray Angelfish
Gray Angelfish
Gray Angelfish, intermediate form
Gray Snapper
Gray Snapper, red phase
Gray Snapper
Gray Triggerfish
Gray Triggerfish
Graysby
Graysby
Graysby
Great Baracuda
Great Baracuda
Greater Amberjack
Greater Amberjack
Greater Soapfish
Greater Soapfish
Greater Soapfish
Green Chromis
Green Moray Eel
Green Moray Eel
Green Moray Eel
Green Razorfish
Grunt Sculpin
Hairy Blenny
Halfmoon, AKA Catalina Blue Perch
Curacao, 2012
Harlequin Bass
Harlequin Bass
Highhat
Highhat, juvenile phase
High-hat
Hogfish
Hogfish, Juvenile mottled phase
Hogfish
Honeycomb Cowfish
Honeycomb Cowfish
Honeycomb Cowfish
Honeycomb Cowfish
Horned Blenny
Horned Blenny
Horse-Eye Jack
Houndfish
Indigo Hamlet
Indigo Hamlet
Jackknife Fish
Jolthead Porgy
Keeltail Needlefish
Kelp Bass
Kelp Bass, AKA Calico Bass
Kelp Bass, AKA Calico Bass
Kelp Perch
Knobbed Porgy
Koi
Koi
Lane Snapper
Lane Snapper
Lane Snapper
Lantern Bass
Lantern Bass
Lantern Bass
Large-Eye Toadfish
Largemouth Bass
Largemouth Bass, Juvenile
Largemouth Bass
Leather Jack
Liined Seahorse
Longfin Damselfish
Longfin Damselfish, Juvenile
Longsnout Butterflyfish
Longsnout Butterflyfish
Longsnout Seahorse
Longsnout Seahorse
Longsnout Seahorse
Longspine Squirrelfish
Longspine Squirrelfish
Longspine Squirrelfish
Mahogany Snapper
Mahogany Snapper
Manybar Goatfish
Map Puffer
White Margate
White Margate
Masked Bannerfish
Masked Goby
Masked Goby
Midnight Parrotfish
Midnight Parrotfish
Mimic Cardinalfish
Moorish Idol
Mutton Snapper
Mutton Snapper
Nassau Grouper
Nassau Grouper
Nassau Grouper
Neon Goby
Neon Goby
Network Pipefish
Northern Pipefish
Northern Puffer
Northern Puffer
Northern Searobin
Northern Searobin
Nurse Shark
Nurse Shark
Ocean Pout
Ocean Pout
Ocean Pout
Ocean Surgeonfish
Ocean Surgeonfish
Ocean Surgeonfish
Ocean Surgeonfish
Ocean Triggerfish
Orangespotted Filefish
Orangespotted Filefish, Juvenile
Oriental Wrasse
Oriental Wrasse
Oyster Toadfish
Pacific Halibut
Painted Greenling
Pale Cardinalfish
Palometa
Palometa
Peacock Damselfish (AKA Blue Damsel)
Peacock Damselfish (AKA Blue Damsel)
Peacock Damselfish (AKA Blue Damsel)
Peacock Flounder, AKA Plate Fish
Flatfish Larva (exact species unknown)
Peacock Flounder, AKA Plate Fish
Peacock Flounder, AKA Plate Fish
Pennant Bannerfish
Peppermint Goby
Pink Anemonefish
Pink Anemonefish
Planehead Filefish, female
Planehead Filefish, Male
Porkfish
Porkfish, juvenile phase
Porkfish, intermediate phase
Princess Parrotfish, initial phase
Princess Parrotfish, juvenile phase
Princess Parrotfish, intermediate phase
Puddingwife
Puddingwife, Initial Phase
Puddingwife, Juvenile
Pumpkinseed
Pumpkinseed, juvenile
Purple Reeffish, juvenile form
Purple Reeffish, juvenile form
Purplemouth Moray
Purplemouth Moray
Queen Angelfish
Queen Angelfish
Queen Angelfish, Juvenile
Queen Parrotfish
Queen Parrotfish, initial phase
Queen Parrotfish
Queen Parrotfish
Queen Triggerfish
Rainbow Parrotfish, terminal phase
Rainbow Parrotfish
Rainbow Runner
Rainbow Trout
Rainbow Trout - Palomino variant
Rainbow Trout
Rainbow Wrasse
Red and Black Anemonefish
Red Grouper
Red Grouper
Red Hind
Red Hind, dark phase
Red Lionfish
Red Lionfish, juvenile form
Red Lionfish
Red Lionfish, juvenile form
Red Lionfish
Red Porgy
Red Hake
Redback
Redback
Redback , juvenile form
Redband Parrotfish, terminal phase
Redband Parrotfish, terminal phase, color variant
Redband Parrotfish, initial phase without spot rostral to tail
Redband Parrotfish, initial phase with spot rostral to tail
Redband Parrotfish, initial phase with spot rostral to tail
Redband Parrotfish, juvenile form
Redband Parrotfish, sleeping colors
Redlip Blenny
Redlip Blenny
Redlip Blenny, with variant color pattern on head
Redspotted Hawkfish
Redtail Parrotfish
Redtail Parrotfish
Redtail Parrotfish, Initial Phase
Reef Butterflyfish
Reef Butterflyfish
Regal Angelfish
Remora
Remora
Rock Bass
Rock Bass
Rock Beauty
Rock Sole
Rock Sole
Rock Wrass, Female
Roughlip Cardinalfish
Round Goby
Round Goby
Round Goby
Round Goby
Ruddy Fusilier
Sabre (Longjaw) Squirrelfish
Saddled Blenny
Saddled Blenny, color variant
Saddled Blenny, color variant
Saddled Blenny, color variant
Saddled Blenny
Sailor's Choice
Sand Diver
Sand Diver
Sand Diver
Sand Goby
Sand Perch
Sand Tiger Shark
Sand Tiger Shark
Sand Tilefish
Sand-Canyon Goby
Sargassum Triggerfish
Scalyhead Sculpin
Scamp
Schoolmaster Snapper
Schoolmaster Snapper
Schoolmaster Snapper, juvenile form
Schoolmaster Snapper
Scrawled Cowfish
Scrawled Filefish
Scrawled Filefish
Scrawled Filefish
Scup
Scup
Sea Raven
Sea Raven
Secretary Blenny
Senorita Wrasse
Sergeant Major
Sergeant Major
Sergeant Major, blue phase
Sharknose Goby
Sharknose Goby
Sharpnose Puffer
Sharpnose Puffer
Sharpnose Puffer - night time markings
Sharptail Eel
Sharptail Eel
Sharptail Eel
Sheepshead Porgy
Sheepshead
Sheepshead
Shoal Bass
Shortfin Sweeper
Shy Hamlet
Silver Porgy
Silver Porgy
Slender Filefish
Slender Filefish
Slippery Dick
Smallmouth Bass
Smallmouth bass, black tailed color variant
Smallmouth Bass
Smallmouth Grunt
Smallmouth Grunt
Smooth Trunkfish
Smooth Trunkfish, juvenile form
Smooth Trunkfish
Smooth Trunkfish
Snowy Grouper, juvenile form
Snubnose Sculpin
Southern Stingray
Southern Stingray
Southern Stingray
Southern Stingray
Spanish Grunt
Spanish hogfish
Spanish Hogfish, juvenile form
Spanish Hogfish
Speckledfin Grouper
Spinyhead Blenny
Spinyhead Blenny
Splendid Toadfish
Splendid Toadfish
Spotfin Butterflyfish
Spotfin Butterflyfish, showing black spot at base of dorsal fin that appears at night.
Spotfin Butterflyfish
Spotfin Butterflyfish, intermediate form
Spot-fin Porcupinefish
Spot-fin Porcupinefish
Spot-fin Porcupinefish
Spotted Drum
Spotted Drum, juvenile form
Spotted Drum, Juvenile form
Spotted Eagle Ray
Spotted Eagle Ray
Spotted Goatfish
Spotted Goatfish
Spotted Goatfish
Spotted Hawkfish
Spotted Hawkfish
Spotted Moray Eel
Spotted Moray Eel
Spotted Moray Eel
Spotted Scorpionfish
Spotted Scorpionfish
Spotted Scorpionfish
Spotted Trunkfish
Spotted Trunkfish
Staghorn Damsel
Stoplight Parrotfish, terminal phase
Stoplight Parrotfish, Initial Phase
Stoplight Parrotfish, juvenile
Stoplight Parrotfish, Juvenile
Striped Parotfish, terminal phase
Striped Parotfish, initial phase
Summer Flounder
Sunshinefish, juvenile phase
Tarpon
Tarpon
Tarpon
Tautog, AKA Blackfish
Tautog, AKA Blackfish
Threadfin Butterflyfish
Three-spot Dascyllus (Humbug), Juvenile
Threespot Damselfish
Threespot Damselfish, juvenile phase
Threespot Damselfish, juvenile phase
Tiger Grouper
Tiger Grouper
Tobaccofish
Tomtate
Tomtate, black tail spot variant
Tomtate
Townsend Angelfish (Queen and Blue Angelfish Hybrid)
Treefish
Trumpetfish
Trumpetfish
Trumpetfish
Twinstripe Fusilier
Twospot Red Snapper
Violet Soldierfish
Viper Moray
Walleye
Walleye
White Catfish
White Catfish
White Grunt
White Hake
White Hake
Whitefin Sharksucker
Whitespotted Filefish, orange phase (no spots)
Whitespotted Filefish, intermediate phase (partial spots)
Whitespotted Filefish, spotted phase
Winter Flounder
Winter Flounder
Winter Skate
Winter Skate
Wolf Cardinalfish - Yellow Tail Phase
Wolf Cardinalfish, Juvenile Phase
Wrasse Blenny
Yellow Chub
Yellow Chub
Yellow Fin Mojarra
Yellow Fin Mojarra
Yellow Goatfish
Yellow Goatfish
Yellow Perch
Yellow Stingray
Yellow Stingray
Yellow Stingray
Yellowhead Jawfish
Yellowhead Jawfish
Yellowhead Wrasse, intermediate Phase
Yellowhead Wrasse, juvenile phase
Yellowhead Wrasse, initial phase
Yellowline Goby
Yellowmouth Grouper
Yellownose Goby
Yellownose Goby
Yellowspotted Trevally
Yellowtail Damselfish
Yellowtail Damselfish, juvenile form
Yellowtail Damselfish, intermediate form
Yellowtail Parrotfish, terminal phase
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