List of fishes of the Black Sea sorted alphabetically
To identify the type of fish by its appearance, we recommend using a convenient guide of fishes of Black Sea
Atlantic bonito
Order: Scombriformes Family: Scombridae
sarda sarda Atlantic Bonito, Belted bonito, Bloater, Bone jack, Boston mackerel, Common bonito, Horse mackerel, Pelamid, Short finned tunny, Skipjack, Stripe-backed pelamis
Length: up to 90 cm.
Weight: up to 11 kg.
Bluefish
Order: Scombriformes Family: Bluefish
pomatomus saltatrix Ancho, Bailey leaf, Big cinekop, Big lufer, Blue fish, Boston bluefish, Choppers, Elf, Fatback, Greenfish, Horsemackerel, Jumbos, Marine piranha, Razorbacks, Salmon bluefish, Shad, Skipjack, Skipmackerel, Snap mackerel, Snapping mackerel, Tailor, Tailor run, Yellow wing
Length: up to 120 cm.
Weight: up to 14.4 kg.
Brown trout
Order: Salmonidae Family: Salmonidae
salmo trutta Blacktail, Brook trout, Brownie, Finnock, Galway sea trout, Gillaroo, Herling, Hirling, Loch leven trout, Orange fin, Orkney sea trout, Peal, Salmon trout, Sea trout, Sea-trout, Sewin, Trout, Whiting, Whitling
Length: up to 70 cm.
Weight: up to 20 kg.
Bullet tuna
Order: Scombriformes Family: Scombridae
auxis rochei Blow goat, Bullet Mackerel, Bullet mackerel, Bullet-tuna, Corseletted frigate mackerel, Corsetted frigate mackerel, Firgate tuna, Frigate mackerel, Frigate tuna, Long corseletted frigate mackerel, Mackerel tuna, Maru frigate mackerel
Length: up to 61 cm.
Weight: up to 3 kg.
Common thresher
Order: Lamniformes Family: Thresher shark
alopias vulpinus Atlantic thresher, Big-eye thresher, Common thresher shark, Fox shark, Grayfish, Green thresher, Sea fox, Slasher, Swingletail, Swiveltail, Swivetail, Thintail thresher, Thrasher, Thresher, Thresher shark, Thresher Shark, Tresher shark, Whip-tailed shark, Zorro thresher shark
Length: up to 609 cm.
Weight: up to 510 kg.
Flathead grey mullet
Order: Mullet (fish) Family: Mullet (fish)
mugil cephalus Black mullet, Black true mullet, Bright mullet, Bully, Bully mullet, Callifaver mullet, Common grey mullet, Common mullet, Flat-head grey mullet, Flathead greymullet, Flathead mullet, Gray mullet, Grey mullet, Haarder, Hardgut mullet, Hardgut river mullet, Longaram mullet, Mangrove mullet, Mullet, Poddies, Poddy mullet, River mullet, Sand mullet, Sea mullet, Springer, Striped mullet, Stripped mullet, Yellow-tailed mullet
Length: up to 100 cm.
Weight: up to 12 kg.
Live sharksucker
Order: Carangiformes Family: Remora
echeneis naucrates Australian remora, Common remora, Gapu, Live shark-sucker, Live Sharksucker, Remora, Shark remora, Slender sharksucker, Slender suckerfish, Slender sucking fish, Striped suckerfish, Suckerfish, Sucking fish, White tailed remore, White-tailed remora
Length: up to 100 cm.
Weight: up to 2.3 kg.
Obtuse barracuda
Order: Carangiformes Family: Barracuda
sphyraena obtusata Blunt barracuda, Blunt-jawed seapike, Bluntjaw sea pike, Dark-finned sea-pike, Green-and-gold sea-pike, Highfin barracuda, Pike, Pygmy barracuda, Sennit, Striped barracuda, Striped sea pike, Striped sea-pike, Striped seapike, Striped seaspike, Stripped barracuda, Yellow-tail, Yellowstriped barracuda, Yellowtail, Yellowtail sennit
Length: up to 50 cm.
Weight: up to 803 g.
Round sardinella
Order: Clupeiformes Family: Clupeidae
sardinella aurita Bang, Black sprat, False sardine, Fry-dry, Gilt sardine, Golden Sardine, Pilchard, Round sardines, Sardinella, Spanish sardine, Striped sardinella
Length: up to 30 cm.
Weight: up to 420 g.
Smooth hammerhead
Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Hammerhead shark
sphyrna zygaena Common hammerhead, Common hammerhead shark, Common smooth hammerhead shark, Hammerhead, Hammerhead shark, Round headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammer head shark, Round-headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammerhead shark, Shark, Smooth hammer-headed shark, Smooth Hammerhead, Smooth hammerhead shark
Length: up to 400 cm.
Weight: up to 400 kg.
Spiny dogfish
Order: Squatiniformes Family: Squalidae
squalus acanthias Blue dog, Common spiny fish, Darwen salmon, Dog fish, Dogfish, Grayfish, Pacific dogfish, Piked dogfish, Rock salmon, Southern spiny dogfish, Spiky dog, Spiny Dogfish, Spotted spiny dogfish, Spring dogfish, Spur dogfish, Spurdog, Victorian spotted dogfish, White-spotted dogfish, White-spotted spurdog, Whitespotted dogfish
Length: up to 208 cm.
Weight: up to 9.1 kg.
Three-spined stickleback
Order: Gasterosteoidei Family: Stickleback
gasterosteus aculeatus Banstickle, Barnstickle, Barnystickle, Barnytickle, Branchy, Branstickle, Burnstickle, Common stickleback, Cushy, Doctor, Eastern stickleback, European stickleback, Jacksharp, New York stickleback, Pinfish, Prickley, Prickly, Prickly back, Saw-finned stickleback, Spanicle, Spannistickle, Spanny, Spannytickle, Spantickle, Sparnicle, Sparny, Sparnytickle, Spawn, Spawnykettle, Spawnytickle, Stickleback, Thornback, Thorny back, Threespine stickleback, Threespined stickleback, Tiddler, Twospine stickleback
Length: up to 12 cm.
Weight: up to 10 g.
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