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Checklist of Freshwater Fishes of Trinidad and Tobago
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Family: Anguillidae |
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Anguilla rostrata |
American eel |
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Local Name |
Callichthys callichthys |
Chato; flat-head cascadu |
Corydoras aeneus |
Souci; pui-pui; goldfish |
Hoplosternum littorale |
Cascadura; cascade |
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Local Name |
Astyanax bimaculatus |
Two-spotted sardine |
Corynopoma risii |
Swordtail sardine |
Gephryocharax valencia |
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Gymnocorymbus thayeri |
Silver tetra |
Hemibrycon taeniurus |
Mountain sardine |
Hemigrammus unilineatus |
Featherfin sardine |
Hyphessobrycon axelrodi |
Calypso tetra |
Odontostilbe pulcher |
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Roeboides dayi |
Hump-back sardine |
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Scientific Name |
Local Name |
Aequidens pulcher |
Blue of green coscorub; coscie |
Cichlasoma taenia |
Brown coscorub |
Crenicichla alta |
Millet; pike cichlid; matawal |
Crenicichla saxatilis |
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Oreochromis mossambicus |
Black tilapia |
Oreochromis niloticus |
Silver or Nile tilapia |
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Local Name |
Steindachnerina argentea |
Stout sardine |
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Local Name |
Dormitator maculatus |
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Eleotris pisonis |
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Gobiomorus dormitor |
Giant goby; sand guabine |
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Local Name |
Hoplias malabaricus |
Guabine; wolf-fish |
Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus |
Yarrow |
Erythrinus erythrinus |
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Local Name |
Gasteropelecus sternicla |
Sliver hatchetfish |
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Local Name |
Awaous taiasica |
Sandfish |
Sicydium punctatum |
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Local Name |
Gymnotus carapo |
Knife fish; cutlass fish |
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Local Name |
Copella arnoldi |
Pencil fish; copeina |
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Family: Loricariidae
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Scientific Name |
Local Name |
Hypostomus robinii |
Teta; mama-teta |
Ancistrus cirrhosus |
Jumbie teta; doctor fish |
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Local Name |
Agonostomus monticola |
Mountain mullet |
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Local Name |
Polycentrus schomburgkii |
King coscorub; leaf fish |
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Local Name |
Rhamdia quelen |
River catfish; cascalaw |
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Scientific Name |
Local Name |
Poecilia picta |
Picta |
Poecilia reticulata |
Guppy; millions; seven-colours |
Poecilia sphenops |
Liberty mollie |
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Local Name |
Rivulus hartii |
Jumping guabine |
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Local Name |
Synbranchus marmoratus |
Zangie; swamp eel |
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Checklist of Freshwater Fishes of Trinidad and Tobago
Compiled by Dr. Indar Ramnarine, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
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