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Fish Species of the Atlantic Ocean
The second-largest ocean, bounded by the Americas to the west and Europe and Africa to the east — from the Arctic to the Antarctic, supporting major global fisheries.
5,070
Total Species
361
Threatened
1,000
Edible
29
Countries
Twospot brotula
Neobythites gilli
LC
🌊 Marine
Twospot cardinalfish
Apogon pseudomaculatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Twospot flounder
Bothus robinsi
LC
🌊 Marine
Twostripe snake eel
Callechelys bilinearis
LC
🌊 Marine
Twotone tang
Zebrasoma scopas
LC
🌊 Marine
Uncombed blenny
Haptoclinus apectolophus
DD
🌊 Marine
Undistinguished sabretooth
Odontostomops normalops
LC
🌊 Marine
Undulate ray
Raja undulata
NT
🌊 Marine
Unicorn cod
Bregmaceros mcclellandi
🌊 Marine
Unicorn crestfish
Eumecichthys fiski
LC
🌊 Marine
Unicorn leatherjacket filefish
Aluterus monoceros
LC
🌊 Marine
Union snook
Centropomus unionensis
LC
🌊 Marine
Urophycis Mystacea
Urophycis mystacea
🌊 Marine
Vacuocua croaker
Corvula macrops
DD
🌊 Marine
Vahl's eelpout
Lycodes gracilis
🌊 Marine
Vaillant's grenadier
Bathygadus melanobranchus
LC
🌊 Marine
Vaillant's smooth-head
Leptochilichthys pinguis
LC
🌊 Marine
Valdivia black dragon fish
Melanostomias valdiviae
LC
🌊 Marine
Variegated snailfish
Liparis gibbus
🌊 Marine
Velvet belly
Etmopterus spinax
VU
🌊 Marine
Velvet whalefish
Barbourisia rufa
LC
🌊 Marine
Venefica Ocella
Venefica ocella
LC
🌊 Marine
Venefica Tentaculata
Venefica tentaculata
LC
🌊 Marine
Venezuela round stingray
Urotrygon venezuelae
EN
🌊 Marine
Ventrad spiderfish
Bathypterois ventralis
LC
🌊 Marine
Vermilion rockfish
Sebastes miniatus
🌊 Marine
Vermilion snapper
Rhomboplites aurorubens
VU
🌊 Marine
Vieja
Paralabrax dewegeri
LC
🌊 Marine
Violet cuskeel
Brotulotaenia crassa
LC
🌊 Marine
Viper moray
Enchelycore nigricans
LC
🌊 Marine
Wahoo
Acanthocybium solandri
LC
🌊 Marine
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
Warty dory
Allocyttus verrucosus
LC
🌊 Marine
Waryfish
Scopelosaurus argenteus
LC
🌊 Marine
Wattled eelpout
Lycodes palearis
🌊 Marine
Wavyline grunt
Microlepidotus inornatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Weakfish
Cynoscion squamipinnis
LC
🌊 Marine
Web burrfish
Chilomycterus antillarum
LC
🌊 Marine
Wenchman
Pristipomoides aquilonaris
LC
🌊 Marine
West African goatfish
Pseudupeneus prayensis
VU
🌊 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 luminous roughy
Aulotrachichthys argyrophanus
DD
🌊 Marine