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Tropical Fish Index


Tropical Fish Index – A list of the most popular fish. Find our tropical fish index underneath in both Common and Scientific names. This list is compiled of the most popular found tropical fish in home aquariums over the world.

Tropical Fish Index

Okay, maybe we missed one or two in this list and therefore we apologize. Can we ask that you let us know if we missed some, so we can ammend this fish index and update our records with the comment form at the bottom of this page?
We believe though that this is quite an accurate tropical fish index of tropical fish species kept widely.

The tropical fish index underneath is in alphabetical order according to the fishes Common name.

Please be aware that there is sometimes more than one common name used for these tropical fish species. If you can’t find any of the tropical fish species what you are looking for in this tropical fish index, please ask us in the comments section at the bottom of this page to assist you with the correct name to what you have.

Tropical fish Index of the Common Name

adolfo’s corydoras
african glass catfish
african knifefish
african long-finned characin
african lungfish
african red-eyed characin
african spotted catfish
african three spot barb
agassiz’s corydoras
agassiz’s dwarf cichlid
ahli
albert’s synodontis
american flagfish
angelfish
ansorge’s neolabias
arched corydoras
archer fish
armoured catfish
arulius barb
asian bumblebee catfish
australian blue-eye
axelrod’s rasbora
banded bushfish
banded epiplatys
banded mystus
banded pearlfish
bandit corydoras
banjo catfish
bar-tailed dwarf cichlid
beacon tetra
bearded corydoras
bengal danio
black ghost knifefish
black hi-fin pleco L108
black neon tetra
black paradise fish
black phantom tetra
black ruby barb
black sail corydoras
black spot barb
black-banded pyrrhulina
black-fin shark catfish
black-finned pacu
bleeding heart tetra
bleher’s rainbowfish
blind cavefish
blotched mudskipper
blue acara
blue emperor
blue limia
blue panchax
blue peacock cichlid
blue tetra
blue-gold peacock
boehlke’s penguin fish
boeseman’s rainbowfish
bokerman’s cynolebias
borelli’s dwarf cichlid
bowfish
brazilian freshwater puffer
brilliant rasbora
bronze corydoras
buck-toothed tetra
buenos aires tetra
bulldog catfish L146a
bumblebee catfish
bumblebee goby
butterfly catfish
butterfly goodeid
butterfly peacock
butterfly peckoltia L052
butterflyfish
cardinal tetra
celebes rainbowfish
chameleon fish
checkerboard cichlid
checkered barb
cherry barb
chinese paradise fish
chocolate frogmouth
chocolate gourami
claret betta
climbing perch
clown barb
clown killifish
clown loach
clown rasbora
clown synodontis
combtail
common ancistrus L144a
common brochis
common hatchetfish
common nandus
common pleco
congo synodontis
congo tetra
convict cichlid
coolie loach
crested dwarf cichlid
croaking gourami
cuming’s barb
day’s green panchax
day’s paradise fish
deep angelfish
discus
dogtooth cichlid
down poker
dwarf argentine pearlfish
dwarf croaking gourami
dwarf gourami
dwarf loach
dwarf rainbowfish
eduard’s mbuna
emerald betta
emperor tetra
endler’s livebearer
entre rios pearlfish
eyespot krib
eyespot rasbora
fairy cichlid
false corydoras
featherfin synodontis
fenestratus
festive cichlid
fighting gaucho
filament tetra
firemouth cichlid
five-banded barb
flying fox
forktailed blue eye
four-eyed fish
frontosa
fuelleborn’s cichlid
giant brochis
giant gourami (fasciata)
giant gourami (goramy)
giraffe catfish
glass bloodfin
glass catfish
glowlight rasbora
glowlight tetra
golden barb
golden bumblebee goodeid
golden dwarf barb
golden fuscoides
golden nugget pleco L018
golden pencilfish
golden-eyed dwarf cichlid
goldy pleco L014
great danio
greater scissortail
green chromide
green knifefish
green panchax
green royal pleco L191
green terror
gunther’s nothobranch
guppy
hancock’s catfish
harald schultz’s corydoras
hard-bellied silver dollar
hard-lipped barb
harlequin rasbora
high-backed headstander
hog-nosed brochis
honey gourami
horse-faced loach
hujeta pike characin
humbug catfish
humpbacked limia
imperial zebra pleco L106
indian catfish
indian glassfish
indian gourami
jack dempsey cichlid
japanese medaka
java combtail
jelly bean tetra
jewel cichlid
kafue pike characoid
kerr’s danio
keyhole cichlid
king tiger peckoltia L066
kissing gourami
knife livebearer
korthaus’ nothobranch
labidochromis electric
lake kutubu rainbowfish
lake tebera rainbowfish
least rasbora
lemon cichlid
lemon tetra
lemon-fin barb
leopard bushfish
leopard danio
lesser spiny eel
licorice dwarf gourami
lifalili cichlid
lined citharoid
livingstoni
longtail pleco L131
lupingo labidochromis
lyretail
macmaster’s dwarf cichlid
malawi blue dolphin
malawi eye-biter
malawi golden cichlid
marbled hatchetfish
mee’s pimelodid
merry widow
metallic-top minnow
mexican molly
midas cichlid
midnight catfish
mono
montezuma swordtail
moonlight gourami
moorii
mosquito fish
mother of snails catfish
mottled catfish
mouse botia
myer’s hatchetfish
nagy’s licorice gourami
neon tetra
new guinea rainbowfish
nijssen’s dwarf cichlid
ocellated stingray
one-striped african tetra
orange barb
orange bushfish
orange chromide
orange-finned loach
orange-shouldered peacock
orange-tipped pleco L076
ornate bagrid
ornate fin-nipper
ornate pimelodus
oscar
palmqvist’s nothobranch
panda corydoras
paradise fish
parkinson’s rainbowfish
peaceful betta
peacock goby
peacock rainbowfish
pearl cichlid
pearl danio
pearl gourami
pearl of likoma
pearly rasbora
penang mouth-brooding betta
peppered corydoras
peppermint pleco L030
peruvian tetra
peter’s elephantnose
pictus catfish
pike-top livebearer
pink-tailed characin
platy
polkadot synodontis
port hoplo catfish
pothole catfish
pretty peckoltia L103
pretty tetra
purple-striped sleeper goby
pygmy catfish
pygmy rasbora
rabaut’s corydoras
rainbow goodeid
red aphyosemion
red devil
red dog characin
red kadango
red lyretail
red phantom tetra
red-bellied piranha
red-finned shark
red-finned tetra
red-spotted characin
red-striped barb
red-tailed black shark
red-tailed catfish
red-tailed rasbora
regal peacock
regan’s julie
rhoades’s cichlid
robina’s corydoras
roloff’s barb
rosy barb
rosy tetra
round-banded barb
round-spotted gibbiceps L083
rummy-nose tetra
rusty cichlid
sailfin marbled catfish
sailfin tetra
salmon-red rainbowfish
scarlet acanthicus L025
schomburgk’s leaf fish
schwartz’s corydoras
scissor-tailed rasbora
sengal bichir
severum
sheephead swordtail
siamese fighting fish
siamese flying fox
siamese tiger
signatus
silver arowana
silver distichodus
silver dollar
silver needlefish
silver prochilodus
Silver shark
silver-tipped tetra
six-barred panchax
six-striped distichodus
slender betta
slender hemiodus
slender rasbora
slim harlequin
snail-eating doradid
snakeskin gourami
south african mouth-brooder
south american leaf fish
spanner barb
speckled sawfin goodeid
spike-tailed paradise fish
splashing characin
splendid rainbowfish
spotline aspidoras
spotted danio
spotted doradid
spotted goby
spotted headstander
spotted shovel-nosed catfish
spotted synodontis
stappers’ catfish
steel-blue killifish
stick catfish
striped aphyosemion
striped barb
striped headstander
striped synodontis
sturgeon catfish
swordtail
swordtail characin
teardrop mosquito fish
thick-lipped gourami
threadfin rainbowfish
three-lined corydoras
three-spot gourami
tiger barb
tiger scat
tinfoil barb
trewavas’s cichlid
twin-banded killifish
two spot barb
two spot catfish
two spot rasbora
two-spot livebearer
ulrey’s tetra
variegated platy
vermiculated synodontis
violet goby
walker’s aphyosemion
watermelon fish
western mosquito fish
white cloud minnow
wolf fish
wrestling halfbeak
x-ray tetra
yellow krib
yellow peacock
yellow tetra
yellow-banded tetra
yellow-finned xenotilapia
yucatan molly
zebra danio
zebra loach
zebra malawi cichlid

Tropical fish Index of the Scientific Name

corydoras adolfoi
eutropiellus debauwi
xenomystus nigri
brycinus longipinnis
protopterus annectens
arnoldichthys spilopterus
anaspidoglanis macrostoma
barbus trispilus
corydoras agassizii
apistogramma agassizii
sciaenochromis fryeri
synodontis alberti
jordanella floridae
pterophyllum scalare
neolebias ansorgii
corydoras arcuatus
toxotes jaculatrix
callichthys callichthys
barbus arulius
leiocassis siamensis
pseudomugil signifer
rasbara axelrodi
ctenopoma fasciolatum
epiplatys fasciolatus
mystus vittatus
cynolebias adloffi
corydoras metae
bunocephalus coracoideus
nanochromis parilus
hemigrammus ocellifer
corydoras barbatus
danio devario
apteronotus albifrons
hypostamus cf. emarginatus
hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
macropodus concolor
megalamphodus megalopterus
barbus nigrofasciatus
corydoras melanistius
barbus filamentosus
pyrrhulina nigrofasciata
arius seemanni
colossoma oculus
hyphessobrycon erythrostigma
chilatherina bleheri
astyanax mexicanus
periophthalmus barbarus
aequidens pulcher
inpaichthys kerri
limia melanogaster
aplocheilus panchax
aulonocara hansbeanschi
coelurichthys microlepis
aulonocara korneliae
thayeria boehlkei
melanotaenia boesemani
cynolebias bokermanni
apistogramma borellii
bedotia madagascariensis
colomesus asellus
rasbara einthovenil
corydoras aeneus
exodon paradoxus
hemigrammus caudovittatus
chaetostoma cf. thomsoni
microglanis iheringi
brachygobius xanthozona
hara hara
ameca splendens
aulonocara jacobfreibergi
lithaxus species
pantodon buchholzi
paracheirodon axelrodi
marosatherina ladigesi
badis badis
disrossus filamentosus
barbus oligolepis
barbus titteya
macropodus ocellatus
chaca bankanensis
sphaerichthys osphromenoides
betta coccina
anabas testudineus
barbus everetti
aplocheilus annulatus
botia macracanthus
rasbora kalochroma
synodontis decorus
belontia signata
ancistrus dolichopterus
brochis splendens
gasteropelecus sternicla
nandus nandus
hypostomus plecostomus
synodontis greshoffi
phenacogrammus interruptus
heros nigrofasciatum
acanthophthalmus kuhlii
apistogramma cacatuoides
trichopsis vittata
barbus cumingi
aplocheilus dayi
pseudosphromenus dayi
pterophyllum altum
symphysodom aequiffasciata
cynotilapia afra
campylomormyrus rhynchophorus
cynolebias nigripinnis
trichopsis pumila
colisa lalia
botia sidthimunki
melanotaenia maccullochi
pseudotropheus socolofi
betta smaragdina
nematobrycon palmeri
poecilia reticulata
cynolebias alexandri
pelvicachromis subocellatus
rasbora dorsiocellata
neolamprologus brichardi
aspidoras pauciradiatus
synodontis eupterus
protomelas fenestratus
mesonauta festivus
cynolebias melanotaenia
bryconaethiops microstoma
cichlasoma meeki
barbus prntazona
epalzeorhynchus kalopterus
pseudomugil furcatus
anableps anableps
cyphotilapia frontosa
labeotropheus fuelleborni
brochis britskii
colisa fasciata
osphronemus goramy
auchenoglanis occidentalis
prionobrama filigera
kryptopterus bicirrhis
rasbora pauciperforata
hemigrammus erthyrozonus
barbus semifasciolatus
allotoca dugesii
barbus gelius
pseudotroheus barlowi
baryancistrus species
nannostomus beckfordi
nannacara anomala
scobinancistrus aureatus
danio aequipinnatus
rasbora caudimaculata
etroplus suratensis
eigenmannia virescens
aplocheilus blockii
panaque nigrolineatus
aequidens rivulatus
nothobranchius guntheri
poecilia reticulata
amblydoras hancocki
corydoras haraldschultzi
mylossoma duriventre
osteochilus hasseltii
rasbora heteromorpha
abramites hypselonotus
brochis multiradiatus
colisa chuna
acantopsis choirorhynchus
ctenolucius hujeta
platydoras costatus
limia nigrofasciata
hypancistrus zebra
gagata schmidti
paramsassis ranga
ctenops nobilis
nandopsis octofasciatus
oryzias latipes
belontia hasselti
ladigesia roloffi
hemichromis bimaculatus
hepsetus odoe
brachydanio kerri
aequidens maronii
peckoltia species
helostoma temminckii
alfaro cultratus
nothobranchius korthausae
labidochromis caeruleus
melanotaenia lacustris
melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi
boraras urophthalmoides
lamprologus lrleupi
hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis
barbus daruphani
ctenopoma acutirostre
brachydanio rerio var. frankei
macrognathus aculeatus
pseudosphromenus deissneri
hemichromis lifalili
citharinus citharus
nimbochromis livingstonii
hypostamus cf. emarginatus
labidochromis sp. Lupingo
aphyosemion australe
apistogramma macmasteri
cyryocara moorii
dimidiochromis compressiceps
melanochromis auratus
carnegiella strigata
pimelodella meesi
phallichthys amates
girardinus metallicus
poecilia mexicana
cichlasoma citrinellum
auchenipterichthys thoracatus
monodactylus argenteus
xiphophorus montezumae
trichogaster microlepis
tropheus moorii
heterandria formosa
pseudodoras niger
chrysichthys ornatus
botia morleti
carnegiella myersi
pseudosphromenus nagyi
paracheirodon innesi
melanotaenia affinis
apistogramma nijsseni
potamotrygon motoro
nannaethiops unitaeniatus
barbus barilioides
ctenopoma ansorgii
etroplus macolatus
botia modesta
aulonocara roberti
parancistrus species
hyalobagrus ornatus
phago ornatus
pimelodus ornatus
astronotus ocellatus
nothobranchius palmqvisti
corydoras panda
macropodus opercularis
melanotaenia parkinsoni
betta imbellis
tateurndina ocellicauda
melanotaenia praecox
geophagus brasiliensis
brachydanio albolineatus
trichogaster leerii
melanochromis exasperatus
rasbora vaterifloris
betta pugnax
corydoras paleatus
parancistrus tocantins
hemigrammus peruvianus
gnathonemus petersii
pimelodus pictus
belonesox belizanus
chalceus macrolepidotus
xiphophorus maculatus
synodontis angelicus
hoplosternum thoracatum
dianema longibarbus
peckoltia pulcher
hemigrammus pulcher
mogurnda mogurnda
corydoras pygmaeus
rasbora maculata
corydoras rabauti
characodon lateralis
aphyosemion sjostedti
amphilophus labiatus
acestrorhynchus altus
copadichromis borleyi
aphyosemion bivittatum
megalamphodus sweglesi
pygocentrus nattereri
epalzeorhynchus frenatus
aphyocharax anisitsi
copeina guttata
barbus bimaculates
epalzeorhynchus bicolor
phractocephalus hemioliopterus
rasbora borapetensis
aulonocara stuartgranti
julidochromis regani
chilotilapia rhoadesii
corydoras robineae
barbus roloffi
barbus conchonius
hyphessobrycon rosaceus
barbus rhomboocellatus
glyptoperichthys gibbiceps
hemigrammus rhodostomus
lodotropheus sprengrae
leiarius pictus
crenuchus spilurus
glossolepis incisus
pseudacanthicus species
polycentrus schomburgki
corydoras schwartzi
rasbora trilineata
polypterus senegalus
heros severus
xiphophorus birchmanni
betta splendens
crossocheilus siamensis
coius microlepis
lamprologus signatus
osteoglossum bicirrhosum
distichodus affinis
metynnis argenteus
xenentodon cancila
semaprochilodus taeniurus
balantiocheilos melanopteus
hasemania nana
aplocheilus sexfasciatus
distichodus sexfasciatus
betta bellica
hemiodopsis gracilis
rasbora daniconius
trigonostigma espei
megalodoras irwini
trichogaster pectoralis
pseudocrenilabrus philander
monocirrhus polyacanthus
barbus lateristriga
skiffia miltipunctata
pseudosphromenus cupanus
copeina arnoldi
melanotaenia splendida
aspidoras lakoi
brachydanio nigrofasciatus
agamyxis pectinifrons
stigmatogobius sadanundio
chilodus punctatus
hemisorubim platyrhynchos
synodontis ocellifer
chrysichthys stappersii
aphyosemion gardneri
farlowella acus
aphyosemion striatum
barbus lineatus
anostomus anostomus
synodontis flavitaeniatus
platystomatichthys sturio
xiphophorus hellerii
corynopoma riisei
gambusia sexradiata
colisa labiosa
iriatherina werneri
corydoras trilineatus
trichogaster trichopterus
barbus tetrazona
scatophagus argus
barbus schwanenfeldi
labeotropheus trewavasae
aphyosemion bitaeniatum
barbus ticto
mystus micracanthus
rasbora elegans
heterandria bimaculata
hemigrammus ulreyi
xiphophorus variatus
synodontis schoutedeni
gobiodes broussonnetii
aphyosemion walkeri
chaleeus erythrurus
gambusia affinis
tanichthys albonubes
hoplias malabaricus
dermagenys pusilla
pristella maxillaris
pelvicachromis humilis
aulonocara beanschi
hyphessobrycon bifasciatus
moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae
xenotilapia flavipinnis
poecilia velifera
brachydanio rerio
botia striata
pseudotropheus zebra

This tropical fish index page is continiously updated. As you can see there is a huge number of tropical fish info required to have it complete, so please be patient. This tropical fish index will also be shortly available in alphabetical order according to Scientific name. Thanks for your patience and understanding and please make us attend in the comments box of anything we might have missed here.

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