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List of Freshwater Fishes for Cayman Islands
Number of freshwater fish species:
9
The tables below were generated from Fishbase.org - A project to provide indexing and links for all known species as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity. All links below take you to pages on the fishbase.org site.
Tropical Freshwater Fish | Biotope aquaria | Country Index
Record number 1 to 9 |
| Order |
Family |
Species |
Status |
FB name |
Name |
| Clupeiformes |
Engraulidae |
Anchoa parva
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native | Little anchovy | |
| Carcharhiniformes |
Carcharhinidae |
Carcharhinus leucas
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native | Bull shark | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Cyprinodontidae |
Cyprinodon riverendi
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native | | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Cyprinodontidae |
Cyprinodon variegatus variegatus
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native | Sheepshead minnow | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Poeciliidae |
Gambusia puncticulata
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native | Caribbean gambusia | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Poeciliidae |
Gambusia xanthosoma
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endemic | Cayman gambusia | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Poeciliidae |
Limia caymanensis
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endemic | Grand Cayman limia | |
| Elopiformes |
Megalopidae |
Megalops atlanticus
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native | Tarpon | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Rivulidae |
Rivulus marmoratus
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native | Mangrove rivulus | |
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