Thailand's Indigeonous Freshwater Fish

 

Thailand's Indigeonous Freshwater Fish

Thailand's Indigeonous Freshwater Fish..


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Native Freshwater Fish of Thailand

Many of these fish species are not game fish. This list will help you decide what sort of fly pattern to use as so many of these smaller fish would be bait for predatory fish.

Family Belonidae
Needle fish

Family Hemiramphidae

Half-beak

Family Clupeidae

Thai River Spart

Family Balitoridae

Loach

Family Cobitidae

Long-nose loaches
Long-nose loaches
Tiger loach
Loach Botia lecontei
Yellow-tail botia
Loach Botia morleti
Lepidocephalichthys hasselti


Barbs image Khao Sok

Family Cyprinidae
Red-tail tinfoil barb
Thai silver barb
Sschwanenfeld's Tinfoil barb
Crossochilos oblongus
Siamese flying Fox
Barb Cyclocheilichthys armatus
Indian river barb
Sodler-river barb
Barb Cyclocheilichthys repasson
Barb Dangilla lineata
Discheronotus ashmeadi
Red-tail black shark
Minnow barb
Spotted shark Hampala dispar
Transverse-bar barb Hampala macrolepidota
Barb Henicorhynchus cryptopogon
Barb Henicorhynchus ormatipinnis
Jullien’s mud carb
Pink tail barb
Apollo shark
Greater black shark
Barb Mystacoleucus atridorsalis
Barb Mystacoleucus marginatus
Stream barilius Opsarius koratensis
Bony-lipped barb
Hard-lipped barb
Carp Osteochilus melanopleura
Bony-lipped barb
Parachela maculicauda
Parachela oxygasteroides
Siamese river abramine Parachela siamensis
Siamese river abramine Paralaubuca typus
Seven-stripped barb
Smith’s barb
Golden little barb
Golden little barb
Rohu (Labeo) or Indian Carp

Rohu or Indian Carp image


Minnow Raiamas guttatus
Yellowtail Rasbora
Rad tailed Rasbora
Slender Rasbora
Minnow Rasbora
Silver Rasbora
Minnow Rasbora
Yellowtail Rasbora
Scissor tailed Rasbora
Golden little barb
Red-cheeked Barb
Banded Barb
White Lady Carp
Hampala Barb image

Family Gyrinocheilidae
Siamese gyriocheilid Gyrinocheilus aymonieri

Family Notopteridae

Spotted Knifefish
Giant Featherback



Family Ambasseidae

Siamese Glassfish
Duskyfin Glassy Perchlet

Family Anabantidae

Climbing Perch

Family Belontidae

Snakeskin Gourami
Blue Gourami
Pygmy Gourami
Croaking Gourami
Snakeskin Gourami image
Family Channidae

Red-tailed Headfish
Blotched Snakehead fish
Red snakehead fish Channa micropeltes
Stripped snakehead fish Channa striata

Family Eleotridae

75 Sand goby Oxyeleotris marmorata

Family Helostomidae

Kissing gourami Helostoma teminkii

Family Osphronemidae

Giant Gourami
Giant Gourami image
Family Nandidae

Striped tiger Nandid

Family Soleidae

Sole Archiroides leucorhynchos
Sole Brachiurus siamensis

Family Sundasalangidae

Sundasalanx praecox

Family Bagridae

Yellow Mystus
Red-tail Mystus
Bumblebee Catfish
Bocourt’s River Catfish
Blue-stripped Catfish
Mystus Catfish Singaringan

Family Clariidae

Batrachian walking catfish Clarias batrachus
Gunther’s walking catfish Clarias macrocephalus

Family Pangasiidae

Helicophagus waandersii
Giant Mekong Catfish Pangasianodon gigas
Striped catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus
Black-ear catfish Pangasius larnaudii
Catfish Pangasius polyuranodon Bleeker
Catfish Pteropangasius pleurotaenia

Family Siluridae

Twisted-jaw Sheatfish Belodontichthys dinema
Kryptopterus cheveyi
Sheatfish Kryptopterus cryptopterus
Sheatfish Micronema apogon
Whisker Sheatfish
Two-spot Glass Catfish
Great White Sheatfish

Family Mastacembelidae

Spiny Eel
Peacock Eel
Fire spiny Eel
Ttire trac Eel

Family Synbranchidae

Swamp Eel

Family Tetraodontidae

Freshwater Puffer Fish

  

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