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Fish Species of Cameroon
Native and commonly occurring fish across 1 ocean region - with habitat, conservation status, and edibility data.
161
Total Species
11
Threatened
27
Edible
1
Ocean Region
Rendezvous fish
Polymetme corythaeola
LC
🌊 Marine
Richardson's snaggletooth
Astronesthes richardsoni
LC
🌊 Marine
Roudi escolar
Promethichthys prometheus
LC
🌊 Marine
Round sardinella
Sardinella aurita
LC
🌊 Marine
Round scad
Decapterus punctatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Sand tiger shark
Carcharias taurus
CR
🌊 Marine
Scaleless dragonfish
Bathophilus nigerrimus
LC
🌊 Marine
Shining Snaggletooth
Borostomias elucens
LC
🌊 Marine
Short-headed lantern fish
Diaphus brachycephalus
LC
🌊 Marine
Shortnose greeneye
Chlorophthalmus agassizi
LC
🌊 Marine
Skipjack tuna
Katsuwonus pelamis
LC
🌊 Marine
Sladen's hatchet fish
Argyropelecus sladeni
LC
🌊 Marine
Slender frostfish
Benthodesmus tenuis
LC
🌊 Marine
Slender lanternfish
Lampanyctus tenuiformis
LC
🌊 Marine
Small scaled brown slickhead
Alepocephalus australis
LC
🌊 Marine
Smallfin lanternfish
Benthosema suborbitale
LC
🌊 Marine
Smallscale smooth-head
Bathytroctes microlepis
LC
🌊 Marine
Smalltooth dragonfish
Pachystomias microdon
LC
🌊 Marine
Smooth dreamer
Chaenophryne draco
LC
🌊 Marine
Smooth puffer
Lagocephalus laevigatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Snake mackerel
Gempylus serpens
LC
🌊 Marine
Snyderidia Canina
Snyderidia canina
LC
🌊 Marine
Soft lanternfish
Diaphus mollis
LC
🌊 Marine
Soft leafvent angler
Haplophryne mollis
LC
🌊 Marine
Softhead grenadier
Malacocephalus laevis
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotlight lanternfish
Diaphus lucidus
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotted soapfish
Rypticus subbifrenatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Spotted tinselfish
Xenolepidichthys dalgleishi
LC
🌊 Marine
Spurcheek lanternfish
Bolinichthys photothorax
LC
🌊 Marine
Stareye lightfish
Pollichthys mauli
LC
🌊 Marine
Stout sawpalate
Serrivomer beanii
LC
🌊 Marine
Tentacle dragonfish
Melanostomias tentaculatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Topside lampfish
Notolychnus valdiviae
LC
🌊 Marine
Transparent lantern fish
Diaphus perspicillatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Triplewart seadevil
Cryptopsaras couesii
LC
🌊 Marine
Triplophos Hemingi
Triplophos hemingi
LC
🌊 Marine
Tripodfish
Bathypterois grallator
LC
🌊 Marine
Undistinguished sabretooth
Odontostomops normalops
LC
🌊 Marine
Unicorn leatherjacket filefish
Aluterus monoceros
LC
🌊 Marine
Wahoo
Acanthocybium solandri
LC
🌊 Marine
Warming's lantern fish
Ceratoscopelus warmingii
LC
🌊 Marine
Waryfish
Scopelosaurus argenteus
LC
🌊 Marine
Western softhead grenadier
Malacocephalus occidentalis
LC
🌊 Marine
Whalehead dreamer
Lophodolos acanthognathus
LC
🌊 Marine
Whitetongue jack
Uraspis helvola
LC
🌊 Marine
Winged lanternfish
Lampanyctus alatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Wingfin snaggletooth
Heterophotus ophistoma
LC
🌊 Marine
Yellowfin tuna
Thunnus albacares
LC
🌊 Marine
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