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List of Freshwater Fishes for United Arab Emirates
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 |
| Perciformes |
Sparidae |
Acanthopagrus berda
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native | Picnic seabream | Shaam |
| Cypriniformes |
Cyprinidae |
Ctenopharyngodon idella
|
introduced | Grass carp | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Poeciliidae |
Gambusia holbrooki
|
introduced | Eastern mosquitofish | |
| Perciformes |
Cichlidae |
Oreochromis aureus
|
introduced | Blue tilapia | |
| Perciformes |
Cichlidae |
Oreochromis spilurus spilurus
|
introduced | Sabaki tilapia | |
| Cyprinodontiformes |
Poeciliidae |
Poecilia reticulata
|
introduced | Guppy | |
| Perciformes |
Sillaginidae |
Sillago sihama
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native | Silver sillago | |
| Beloniformes |
Belonidae |
Strongylura strongylura
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native | Spottail needlefish | |
| Clupeiformes |
Clupeidae |
Tenualosa ilisha
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native | Hilsa shad | |
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