Fallfish
Found in clear streams, ponds and lakes of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.
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False Cat Shark
A deep-water shark with scattered records around the world, including the North Atlantic.
False Fusilier
Occurs along eastern Africa, from Kenya toward South Africa, with a range extending into the Indian Ocean.
False Pilchard
Ranges from Florida and the Bahamas through the Gulf of Mexico and south to Brazil.
Fantail Darter
A stream darter closely associated with cobbles and flat stones on the bottom.
Fantail Mullet
A coastal mullet ranging from Bermuda and Florida through the Caribbean toward Trinidad and Tobago.
Fat Mullet
A mullet of the Indo-Pacific, with records extending from the Red Sea toward Micronesia.
Fat Sleeper
A freshwater sleeper found in lakes, ponds and rivers.
Fat Snook
A western Atlantic snook ranging from southern Florida through the Gulf of Mexico toward southern Brazil.
Fathead Minnow
A widespread North American minnow, with a rosy-red form commonly raised as a feeder fish.
Fatlips Minnow
Favors warm, clear streams and rivers, especially gravel riffles.
Fatsnout Rockclimbing Goby
A stream goby recorded in American Samoa and French Polynesia.
Fieryblack Shiner
Native to the Santee and Pee Dee river systems of North and South Carolina.
Finescale Dace
A northern dace recorded in Minnesota and parts of the northeastern United States, including New York and New England.
Finescale Menhaden
A schooling menhaden native to the western Gulf of Mexico.
Finetooth Rockclimbing Goby
A freshwater goby found naturally only on Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Fingerfish
Uses western Pacific and Indian Ocean waters, including the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and river estuaries.
Firebelly Darter
Occupies creek and small-river pools with gravel or sand bottoms.
Fishing Frog
A western Pacific anglerfish recorded from Indonesia and the Philippines toward New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Taiwan.
Fiveblotch Jewelfish
An African cichlid found in the Congo River system and parts of West Africa.
Fiveline Snapper
A snapper native to the Indian Ocean and western Pacific waters.
Flagfin Mojarra
An Atlantic mojarra found along continental coasts of the Americas and western Africa.
Flagfin Shiner
Found in Gulf-draining waters, including Florida’s Apalachicola River, Mississippi’s Pearl River and parts of Louisiana.
Flame Chub
Uses springs and shallow spring-fed streams, especially gravel beds surrounded by abundant aquatic plants.
Flame Snapper
A marine snapper distributed across the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Flannelmouth Sucker
A western sucker recorded across the Colorado River region, from Wyoming and Colorado into the desert Southwest.
Flat Anchovy
A western Atlantic anchovy recorded around Bermuda, Florida and Caribbean coasts, including southern Gulf of Mexico waters.
Flat Bullhead
A southeastern catfish with a native range extending from Virginia to Georgia.
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Flathead Catfish
Adults mainly eat live fish. Favors warm rivers with steady, slow currents and substantial depth.
Flathead Chub
A North American chub distributed through central Canada and the central United States.
Flier
Uses clear, acidic swamp ponds, oxbows, sloughs and slow creeks.
Florida Gar
Native from Georgia’s Savannah and Ochlockonee drainages through peninsular Florida.
Florida Largemouth Bass
Lives in waters ranging from large lakes and reservoirs to small ponds, swamps and quiet creek pools.
Florida Sand Darter
Native to Gulf-draining waters between the Apalachicola and Perdido rivers in Florida and southern Alabama.
Flowery Flounder
A patterned flatfish of shallow Indo-Pacific waters, also recorded around oceanic islands.
Fluvial Shiner
A freshwater shiner native to the Mobile Bay drainage in Alabama and neighboring southeastern waters.
Fountain Darter
Found naturally in the headwaters of Texas’s Comal and San Marcos rivers.
Fourhorn Sculpin
Feeds on invertebrates living along the bottom, along with fish eggs.
Fourspine Stickleback
Uses freshwater and brackish coastal habitats between Newfoundland and South Carolina.
Fourspot Flounder
Eats small fish and squid, and can change its upper-side coloring to blend with sandy or muddy seafloors.
Fourwing Flyingfish
A warm-water Atlantic flyingfish important to Caribbean fisheries, both as food and as bait.
Frecklebelly Darter
Uses flowing water with strong currents and fine gravel along the bottom.
Frecklebelly Madtom
A small catfish native to the United States, with populations confined to southeastern freshwater systems.
Freckled Angler
A tropical frogfish with a broad Indo-Pacific distribution, including the Red Sea, Hawaii and parts of the eastern Pacific.
Freckled Darter
Native to the Mobile Bay, Pascagoula and Pearl river systems across the southeastern Gulf states.
Freckled Madtom
Native to the central Mississippi basin and other southern United States rivers draining into the Gulf of Mexico.
Freshwater Damselfish
An unusual damselfish recorded in entirely freshwater rivers in Mozambique.
Freshwater Drum
Often favors clean sand and gravel along the bottom of freshwater rivers and lakes.
Freshwater Garfish
Uses both freshwater and brackish habitats across South and Southeast Asia.
Freshwater Longtom
Lives in larger rivers from tidal reaches far inland, using both flowing and still water.
Freshwater Moray
Found across the Indo-Pacific, including Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia.
Freshwater Pipefish
A slender pipefish of coastal rivers and mangrove estuaries, ranging from Belize to Brazil.
Frillfin Goby
Eats tiny crustaceans and small fish, including newly hatched fish where available.
Fringed Darter
A freshwater darter native to Tennessee and surrounding eastern-central United States states.
Fringed Filefish
A filefish of shallow western Atlantic waters, including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
Frogface Goby
Ranges from the Red Sea and eastern Africa into the tropical western Pacific.