Aquarist Atlas
Killifish · names

Every name, resolved

A killifish is known by a current scientific binomial under the Catalog of Fishes and, often, by an English common name — “lyretail”, “golden wonder”, “American flagfish”, “desert pupfish”. Few groups change names as often, as genera split and recombine, so this index cross-references both layers — the 700 scientific names and 437 common names — and resolves each one to its species page.

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Scientific name — the valid binomial under the Catalog of Fishes, the authority for valid names. Common name — English vernacular and trade names recorded for the species. Each entry is tagged with its group, and where a species carries a collection-locality / population label it is shown beside the scientific name.

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