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Fish Species of Mexico
Native and commonly occurring fish across 2 ocean regions - with habitat, conservation status, and edibility data.
2,655
Total Species
165
Threatened
542
Edible
2
Ocean Regions
Variable platyfish
Xiphophorus variatus
LC
💧 Freshwater
Velvet whalefish
Barbourisia rufa
LC
🌊 Marine
Venefica Ocella
Venefica ocella
LC
🌊 Marine
Venefica Tentaculata
Venefica tentaculata
LC
🌊 Marine
Ventrad spiderfish
Bathypterois ventralis
LC
🌊 Marine
Vermiculated sailfin catfish
Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus
LC
💧 Freshwater
Vermilion rockfish
Sebastes miniatus
🌊 Marine
Vermilion snapper
Rhomboplites aurorubens
VU
🌊 Marine
Vieja
Paralabrax dewegeri
LC
🌊 Marine
Villa Lopez pupfish
Cyprinodon ceciliae
EX
💧 Freshwater
Violet goby
Gobioides broussonnetii
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Viper moray
Enchelycore nigricans
LC
🌊 Marine
Wahoo
Acanthocybium solandri
LC
🌊 Marine
Walter's toadfish
Batrachoides waltersi
LC
🔄 Diadromous
Warming's lantern fish
Ceratoscopelus warmingii
LC
🌊 Marine
Warsaw grouper
Hyporthodus nigritus
NT
🌊 Marine
Warteye stargazer
Gillellus uranidea
LC
🌊 Marine
Warthead blenny
Protemblemaria bicirrus
LC
🌊 Marine
Wavyline grunt
Microlepidotus inornatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Weakfish
Cynoscion squamipinnis
LC
🌊 Marine
Web burrfish
Chilomycterus antillarum
LC
🌊 Marine
Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
LC
💧 Freshwater
Wenchman
Pristipomoides aquilonaris
LC
🌊 Marine
West Atlantic Cusk-eel
Dicrolene kanazawai
LC
🌊 Marine
Western Atlantic grenadier
Nezumia atlantica
LC
🌊 Marine
Western Atlantic seabream
Archosargus rhomboidalis
LC
🌊 Marine
Western deepsea cardinalfish
Epigonus occidentalis
LC
🌊 Marine
Western softhead grenadier
Malacocephalus occidentalis
LC
🌊 Marine
Whale shark
Rhincodon typus
EN
🌊 Marine
Whalehead dreamer
Lophodolos acanthognathus
LC
🌊 Marine
Whalesucker
Remora australis
LC
🌊 Marine
Whip eel
Bascanichthys scuticaris
LC
🌊 Marine
Whipsnout sorcerer
Venefica proboscidea
LC
🌊 Marine
whiptail loricaria
Rineloricaria parva
LC
💧 Freshwater
Whiptail ribbonfish
Desmodema lorum
LC
🌊 Marine
Whiskereye clingfish
Derilissus kremnobates
DD
🌊 Marine
White Anglerfish
Lophiodes beroe
LC
🌊 Marine
White catfish
Ameiurus catus
LC
💧 Freshwater
White cloud mountain minnow
Tanichthys albonubes
DD
💧 Freshwater
White crappie
Pomoxis annularis
LC
💧 Freshwater
White croaker
Genyonemus lineatus
LC
🌊 Marine
White grunt
Haemulon plumierii
LC
🌊 Marine
White margate
Haemulon album
DD
🌊 Marine
White mullet
Mugil curema
LC
🔄 Diadromous
White seaperch
Phanerodon furcatus
🌊 Marine
White snook
Centropomus viridis
LC
🌊 Marine
White stardrum
Stellifer fuerthii
LC
🌊 Marine
White sturgeon
Acipenser transmontanus
VU
🔄 Diadromous