Fish beginning with N
Nairobi labeo - Labeo trigliceps is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.
Naked characin - The naked characin is a species of fish in the Characidae family.
Namaqua barb - The Namaquab Barb is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.
Nannoglanis fasciatus - Nannoglanis fasciatus is the only species of catfish in the genus Nannoglanis of the family Heptapteridae.
Narrow-lined puffer - Salinity: Saltwater PH: 7. Temperature: 74-80F Maximum Size: 12 inches Minimum Tank: 100 Gallons Activity: Hunter/seeker Lifespan: 10 years Breeding: Unknown Gender: No sexual dimorphism
Narrow-lined toadfish - Arothron immaculatus, or the immaculate puffer, is a pufferfish from the Indo-West Pacific.
Narrowbar swellshark - In 1994, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation chief researchers Peter Last and John Stevens applied the provisional name Cephaloscyllium "sp.
Narrownose smooth hound - Narrownose smooth-hounds feed on crabs and probably other crustaceans, and presumably small fishes.
Nase - Chondrostoma willkommii is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.
Natal sergeant - Scissortail seargents are coral reef dwelling fish, living at depths of up to 15 m in tropical reaches, often living in a group surrounding a single head of coral.
Natal tongue-fish - Cynoglossus acaudatus, commonly known as the Natal tongue fish is a species of tonguefish.
Natal yellowfish - Scaly Yellowfish is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Labeobarbus.
Nazas pupfish - The cachorrito del aguanaval is a species of fish in the Cyprinodontidae family.
Nazas shiner - Nazas Shiner is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis.
Needle dogfish - It has no anal fin, two dorsal fins with spines, the first dorsal fin being low and long, a moderately long snout, and a notched caudal fin.
Neko-gigi - The nekogigi, Pseudobagrus ichikawai, is a species of fish in the Bagridae family.
Nemacheilus anguilla - Nemacheilus anguilla is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus banar - Nemacheilus banar is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus devdevi - Nemacheilus devdevi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus guttatus - Nemacheilus guttatus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus hamwii - Nemacheilus hamwii is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus inglisi - Nemacheilus inglisi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus insignis - Nemacheilus insignis is a species of ray-finned fish in the Balitoridae family.
Nemacheilus menoni - Nemacheilus menoni is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus monilis - Nemacheilus monilis is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus mooreh - Nemacheilus mooreh is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus ornatus - Nemacheilus ornatus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus pallidus - Nemacheilus pallidus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus singhi - Nemacheilus singhi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus subfusca - Nemacheilus subfusca is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Nemacheilus tikaderi - Nemacheilus tikaderi is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Nemacheilus.
Neoceratias spinifer - Adult female toothed seadevils have slender, elongate bodies up to 11 centimetres long.
Neocyema erythrosoma - The bobtail snipe eels are two species of deep-sea fishes in the family Cyematidae, one only in each of two genera.
Neoharriotta carri - The dwarf sicklefin chimaera is a species of fish in the Rhinochimaeridae family.
Neoharriotta pumila - The Arabian sicklefin chimaera is a species of fish in the Rhinochimaeridae family.
Neolamprologus brevis - Neolamprologus brevis is a small shell-dwelling cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika.
Neolamprologus meeli - Neolamprologus meeli is a cichlid species in the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae.
Neolamprologus similis - This fish is monomorphic save in size and form small colonies or harems - depending on available space - in which the male fry are tolerated until they become active competitors of the male.
Neon damsel - The neon damselfish, pomacentrus coelestis is a Damselfish from the Indo-Pacific.
Neon goby - Elacatinus is a genus of marine gobies, often known collectively as the neon gobies.
Neosalanx tangkahkeii - Icefishes or noodlefishes are a family, the Salangidae, of osmeriform fish, related to the smelts.
Neosho madtom - The Neosho madtom has features characteristic of all North American catfish, including scaleless skin and a relatively large head with sensory barbels.
Nervous shark - The nervous shark, Carcharhinus cautus, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the western Pacific Ocean between latitudes 5° S and 30° S.
Neumayer's barb - Neumayer's Barb is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.
New Caledonia cat shark - The New Caledonia catshark is a rare and vulnerable inshore catshark found around coral reefs.
New Guinea thryssa - The freshwater anchovy is a species of fish in the Engraulidae family.
New River shiner - New River Shiner is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis.
New Zealand blueback sprat - The New Zealand sprat, Sprattus muelleri, is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found in the subtropical southwest Pacific Ocean endemic to New Zealand.
New Zealand brill - The New Zealand brill is a righteyed flounder and so has both its eyes on the right-hand side of its body.
New Zealand dory - The New Zealand dory, Cyttus novaezealandiae, is a dory, in the family Cyttidae, found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, over the continental shelf at depths of between 20 and 400 m.
New Zealand greenback flounder - The greenback flounder, Rhombosolea tapirina, is a righteye flounder of the genus Rhombosolea, found around southern Australia and New Zealand.
New Zealand lemon sole - The southern lemon sole, Pelotretis flavilatus, is a righteye flounder, the only species in the genus Pelotretis, found around New Zealand in enclosed waters such as estuaries, harbours, mudflats, and sandflats, in waters less than 385 m in depth.
New Zealand scaly headed triplefin - The scaly-headed triplefin, Karalepis stewarti, is a triplefin, the only species in the genus Karalepis, found around the north east of the North Island of New Zealand from depths of about 5 to 30 m, in reef areas of broken rock.
New Zealand smooth skate - The New Zealand smooth skate, Dipturus innominatus, is a skate of the genus Dipturus, found around New Zealand at depths of between 15 and 1,300 m.
New Zealand sole - The New Zealand sole or common sole, Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae, is a righteye flounder of the genus Peltorhamphus, found around New Zealand in shallow enclosed waters less than 100 m in depth.
New Zealand sprat - The species schools in coastal waters primarily on the bottom or midwater, with shoals of fish seen on the surface usually only in summer.
Nezumia toi - Nezumia toi is a rattail of the family Macrouridae, found only in New Zealand at depths of about 950 m.
Niangua darter - Adult Niangua darters move from pools and slow runs to gravel riffles prior to spawning.
Nigerian clarias - The broadhead catfish is identified by its large dorsal fin and its short and rounded occipital process.
Nigerian tonguesole - Cynoglossus browni, commonly known as the Nigerian tonguesole is a species of tonguefish.
Night smelt - Night smelt are similar in appearance to the longfin smelt .
Nile tilapia - It is also commercially known as Mango fish or Nilotica.
Nilgiri osteobrama - Osteobrama neilli is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Osteobrama.
Nilgiris barb - Nilgiris Barb is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Hypselobarbus.
Ninespine stickleback - It lives in extremely weedy ditches and rivers as its small spines do not offer much protection.
Ningu - The Ningu is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.
Non parasitic lamprey - The non-parasitic lamprey is known only from the Moroya and Tuross Rivers in southern New South Wales.
Noronha wrasse - Thalassoma norohanum, or the Noronha wrasse, is a species of fish in the Labridae family.
North African catfish - It is found throughout Africa and the middle east and live in freshwater lakes, rivers, swamps, as well as human-made places, such as oxidation ponds or even urban sewer systems.
North-pacific frostfish - The North Pacific frostfish, Benthodesmus pacificus, is a cutlassfish of the family Trichiuridae found in the north Pacific Ocean between latitudes 50° N and 30° N at depths of between 100 and 1,000 m.
Northern barracuda - Like other members of the Sphyraenidae family, Northern sennet have elongated bodies, pike-like heads, and large jaws.
Northern brook lamprey - Lampreys are long, slender fish-like animals, lacking lower jaws, which results in a downward facing mouth.
Northern cavefish - The White River, flowing east to west south of Bedford, Indiana, delimits the northern range of Amblyopsis spelea.
Northern platyfish - Its natural habitat is a hot spring heated by volcanic activity, in Santa Tecla, Mexico.
Northern rock sole - Prior to 2000 the Northern rock sole and the rock sole, Lepidopsetta bilineata, were considered to be a single species under the genus Lepidopsetta, but work by Orr & Matarese published in 2000 reorganised the genus into three separate taxa.
Northern smooth-tongue - The Northen smoothtongue is a type of deepwater fish that can grow to a length of 15 centimetres .
Northern stargazer - The Northern Stargazer has a blackish brown body with white spots that are of the same size all over its head and back.
Northern whitefish - The peled, also called the northern whitefish , is a species of freshwater whitefish in the Salmonidae family.
Northland mudfish - The Northland mudfish, Neochanna heleios, is a galaxiid of the genus Neochanna, found only in swampy locations west of the Bay of Islands in Northland, New Zealand.
Notchheaded marblefish - The notchheaded marblefish, Aplodactylus etheridgii, is a marblefish of the genus Aplodactylus, found between North Cape and East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, in depths down to 40 m.
Notropis calabazas - Notropis calabazas is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis.
Notropis metallicus - Notropis metallicus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis.
Nun galilaeus - Nun galilaeus is a species of ray-finned fish in the Balitoridae family.
Nyanza barb - Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas.
Nzoia barb - The Nzoia Barb is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.