Blackfish is a common name for various species of fishes and cetaceans, including:

Fish

Alaska blackfish The Alaska blackfish (''Dallia pectoralis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the esocid family (Esocidae) of order Salmoniformes. It inhabits Arctic regions of Alaska as well as Siberia and the Bering Sea islands. Description Alaska blackfis ...

(''Dallia pectoralis''), an

esocid ''Esox'' is a genus of freshwater fish commonly known as pike or pickerel. It is the type genus of the family Esocidae. The type species of the genus is '' Esox lucius'', the northern pike. ''Esox'' have a fossil record extending back to the ...

from Alaska, Siberia, and the Bering Sea islands * Black fish (''

Carassioides acuminatus ''Carassioides acuminatus'' or black fish is a species of cyprinid fish in the subfamily Cyprininae. It is found in central and northern Vietnam and the Pearl River and Hainan in China. It may have been introduced into Laos. It occurs in slow fl ...

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cyprinid Cyprinidae is a Family (biology), family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barb (fish), barbs and barbel (fish), barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the ...

from China and Vietnam * Black ruff (''Centrolophus niger'') * Black sea bass (''

Centropristis striata The black sea bass (''Centropristis striata'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea bass from the subfamily Serraninae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the groupers and anthias. It is found in the western Atl ...

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Cornish blackfish ''Schedophilus medusophagus'' is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Centrolophidae. Its native range is Europe, Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic ...

(''Schedophilus medusophagus'') * ''

Gadopsis ''Gadopsis'' is a genus of temperate perches endemism, endemic to freshwater habitats in southeastern Australia. The genus was formerly considered to be in a family of its own, Gadopsidae. This genus and the ''Maccullochella'' cods (such as th ...

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River blackfish The river blackfish (''Gadopsis marmoratus'') is a freshwater fish endemic to the temperate waters of south-eastern Australia. It is found from southern Queensland through to central Victoria, including in the Murray- Darling river system. I ...

(''G. marmoratus'') **

Two-spined blackfish The two-spined blackfish (''Gadopsis bispinosus'') is a species of temperate perch endemic to Australia. It is found in the cool, clear, strong-flowing, cobble bottomed, sub-alpine rivers and streams (ranging from small to large) in the southea ...

(''G. bispinosus'') * Galjoen (''

Dichistius capensis The galjoen, black bream, or blackfish (''Dichistius capensis'') is a species of marine fish found only along the coast of South Africa, Namibia and Angola. Galjoen is the national fish of South Africa. Distribution and habitat The galjoen is ...

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Acanthopagrus schlegelii ''Acanthopagrus schlegelii'', the blackhead seabream, black porgy or black seabream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the Family (biology), family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. This species is found in the Western Pacific ...

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sea bream Sparidae is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Spariformes, the seabreams and porgies, although they were traditionally classified in the order Perciformes. The over 150 species are found in shallow and deep marine waters in te ...

often cultivated in

aquaculture Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. Nelu ...

* Parore (''

Girella tricuspidata ''Girella tricuspidata'' commonly known as the parore, luderick, black bream, black snapper, blackfish, or ni󠀡󠀡g󠀡󠀡g󠀡󠀡er fishhttps://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/469 is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub fr ...

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Sacramento blackfish The Sacramento blackfish (''Orthodon microlepidotus'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belongingto the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, chubs, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This species is endemic to central Califor ...

(''Orthodon microlepidotus'') * Tautog (''

Tautoga onitis The tautog (''Tautoga onitis''), also known as the blackfish, is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to South Carolina. This species inhabits hard substrate habitats in inshore waters at depths from . It is ...

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Dolphins

Pilot whale Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus ''Globicephala''. The two Extant taxon, extant species are the long-finned pilot whale (''G. melas'') and the short-finned pilot whale (''G. macrorhynchus''). The two are not readily distinguish ...

s (''Globicephala'') *

Melon-headed whale The melon-headed whale (''Peponocephala electra''), also known less commonly as the electra dolphin, little killer whale, or many-toothed blackfish, is a toothed whale of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). The common name is derived from t ...

(''Peponocephala electra'') *

False killer whale The false killer whale (''Pseudorca crassidens'') is a species of oceanic dolphin that is the only extant representative of the genus ''Pseudorca''. It is found in oceans worldwide but mainly in tropical regions. It was first species descriptio ...

(''Pseudorca crassidens'') *

Pygmy killer whale The pygmy killer whale (''Feresa attenuata'') is a poorly known and rarely seen oceanic dolphin. It is the monotypic taxon, only species in the genus ''Feresa''. It derives its common name from sharing some physical characteristics with the orca ...

(''Feresa attenuata'') *

Orca The orca (''Orcinus orca''), or killer whale, is a toothed whale and the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. The only extant species in the genus '' Orcinus'', it is recognizable by its black-and-white-patterned body. A cosmopol ...

(''Orcinus orca'') Former disambiguation pages converted to set index articles {{Animal common name