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Fish Species of the Mediterranean Sea
An almost landlocked sea connecting to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar — one of the world's most historically fished waters, now under increasing pressure.
891
Total Species
83
Threatened
269
Edible
20
Countries
Brown meagre
Sciaena umbra
NT
🌊 Marine
Brown moray
Gymnothorax unicolor
LC
🌊 Marine
Brown ray
Raja miraletus
LC
🌊 Marine
Brown wrasse
Labrus merula
LC
🌊 Marine
Brushtooth lizardfish
Saurida undosquamis
LC
🌊 Marine
Bucchich's goby
Gobius bucchichi
LC
🌊 Marine
Bufoceratias Wedli
Bufoceratias wedli
LC
🌊 Marine
Bull ray
Aetomylaeus bovinus
CR
🌊 Marine
Bullet tuna
Auxis rochei
LC
🌊 Marine
Cadenat's rockfish
Scorpaena loppei
LC
🌊 Marine
Canary dentex
Dentex canariensis
LC
🌊 Marine
Cardinal fish
Apogon imberbis
LC
🌊 Marine
Chain Cusk-eel
Porogadus catena
LC
🌊 Marine
Champsodon Nudivittis
Champsodon nudivittis
🌊 Marine
Champsodon Vorax
Champsodon vorax
🌊 Marine
Chauliodus Schmidti
Chauliodus schmidti
LC
🌊 Marine
Chaves' lanternfish
Lampadena chavesi
LC
🌊 Marine
Cline
Clinitrachus argentatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Cobia
Rachycentron canadum
LC
🌊 Marine
Cocco's lantern fish
Lobianchia gemellarii
LC
🌊 Marine
Cocco's lanternfish
Gonichthys cocco
LC
🌊 Marine
Cocoa damselfish
Stegastes variabilis
LC
🌊 Marine
Comber
Serranus cabrilla
LC
🌊 Marine
Common Atlantic grenadier
Nezumia aequalis
LC
🌊 Marine
Common dab
Limanda limanda
LC
🌊 Marine
Common dentex
Dentex dentex
VU
🌊 Marine
Common dolphinfish
Coryphaena hippurus
LC
🌊 Marine
🍽️ ★★★★★
Common guitarfish
Rhinobatos rhinobatos
CR
🌊 Marine
Common mora
Mora moro
LC
🌊 Marine
Common pandora
Pagellus erythrinus
LC
🌊 Marine
Common sole
Solea solea
DD
🌊 Marine
Common stingray
Dasyatis pastinaca
VU
🌊 Marine
Common torpedo
Torpedo torpedo
VU
🌊 Marine
Common two-banded seabream
Diplodus vulgaris
LC
🌊 Marine
Connemarra clingfish
Lepadogaster candolii
LC
🌊 Marine
Constellationfish
Valenciennellus tripunctulatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Copper shark
Carcharhinus brachyurus
VU
🌊 Marine
Corkwing wrasse
Symphodus melops
LC
🌊 Marine
Cornish blackfish
Schedophilus medusophagus
LC
🌊 Marine
Cosmopolitan Whipnose
Gigantactis vanhoeffeni
DD
🌊 Marine
Creole-fish
Paranthias furcifer
LC
🌊 Marine
Crested oarfish
Lophotus lacepede
LC
🌊 Marine
Crevalle jack
Caranx hippos
LC
🌊 Marine
Crystal goby
Crystallogobius linearis
LC
🌊 Marine
Cuckoo ray
Leucoraja naevus
NT
🌊 Marine
Cuckoo wrasse
Labrus mixtus
LC
🌊 Marine
Curled picarel
Centracanthus cirrus
LC
🌊 Marine
Cyclothone Pygmaea
Cyclothone pygmaea
LC
🌊 Marine