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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
Forkbeard
Phycis phycis
LC
🌊 Marine
Four-spotted goby
Deltentosteus quadrimaculatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Foureyed sole
Microchirus ocellatus
DD
🌊 Marine
Fourlined terapon
Pelates quadrilineatus
🌊 Marine
Fries's goby
Lesueurigobius friesii
LC
🌊 Marine
Frogface goby
Oxyurichthys papuensis
LC
🌊 Marine
Fusca drum
Umbrina ronchus
DD
🌊 Marine
Gadella
Gadella maraldi
LC
🌊 Marine
Gaper
Champsodon capensis
LC
🌊 Marine
Garrick
Cyclothone braueri
LC
🌊 Marine
Gelatinous blindfish
Aphyonus gelatinosus
LC
🌊 Marine
Ghostly grenadier
Coryphaenoides leptolepis
LC
🌊 Marine
Gilbert's halosaurid fish
Aldrovandia affinis
LC
🌊 Marine
Gilbert's large lantern fish
Diaphus adenomus
LC
🌊 Marine
Glacier lantern fish
Benthosema glaciale
LC
🌊 Marine
Glasseye
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Glasshead grenadier
Hymenocephalus italicus
LC
🌊 Marine
Glowbelly
Acropoma japonicum
🌊 Marine
Goldband goatfish
Upeneus moluccensis
LC
🌊 Marine
Goldblotch grouper
Epinephelus costae
DD
🌊 Marine
Golden goby
Gobius auratus
LC
🌊 Marine
Goldlined seabream
Rhabdosargus sarba
LC
🌊 Marine
Goldsinny-wrasse
Ctenolabrus rupestris
LC
🌊 Marine
Goldstripe sardinella
Sardinella gibbosa
LC
🌊 Marine
Gonostoma Denudatum
Gonostoma denudatum
LC
🌊 Marine
Gracile lizardfish
Saurida gracilis
LC
🌊 Marine
Grass goby
Zosterisessor ophiocephalus
LC
🌊 Marine
Greasy grouper
Epinephelus tauvina
DD
🌊 Marine
Great hammerhead
Sphyrna mokarran
CR
🌊 Marine
Great sandeel
Hyperoplus lanceolatus
LC
🌊 Marine
Great white shark
Carcharodon carcharias
VU
🌊 Marine
Greater amberjack
Seriola dumerili
LC
🌊 Marine
Greater forkbeard
Phycis blennoides
🌊 Marine
Greater pipefish
Syngnathus acus
LC
🌊 Marine
Greater weever
Trachinus draco
LC
🌊 Marine
Green Wrasse
Labrus viridis
VU
🌊 Marine
Greenland shark
Somniosus microcephalus
VU
🌊 Marine
Grenadier smooth-head
Leptoderma macrops
LC
🌊 Marine
Grey gurnard
Eutrigla gurnardus
🌊 Marine
Grey triggerfish
Balistes capriscus
VU
🌊 Marine
Grey wrasse
Symphodus cinereus
LC
🌊 Marine
Guachanche barracuda
Sphyraena guachancho
LC
🌊 Marine
Guinean angelfish
Holacanthus africanus
LC
🌊 Marine
Gulper shark
Centrophorus granulosus
EN
🌊 Marine
Günther's boafish
Stomias affinis
LC
🌊 Marine
Günther's grenadier
Coryphaenoides guentheri
LC
🌊 Marine
Hairfin smooth-head
Talismania homoptera
LC
🌊 Marine
Halavi ray
Glaucostegus halavi
CR
🌊 Marine