List of fishes of Pakistan

Rohu

There are 531 species of fishes in Pakistan, of these, 233 are freshwater fish. ^[1] The mahseer is the national fish of Pakistan.

• Diptychus maculatus - scaly osman (found only in Deosai)
• Naziritor zhobensis - Zhobi mahseer
• Notopterus chitala
• Notopterus notopterus - bronze featherback
• Ptychobarbus conirostris (found only in Deosai)
• Triplophysa stoliczkai - Tibetan stone loach (found only in Deosai)

Family Cyprinidae

Thela fish

• Catla catla - thela/theri fish
• Labeo calbasu - dahi/orangefin labio
• Labeo rohita - rohu
• Tor putitora - golden mahasher, the national fish of Pakistan

Family Clupeidae

• Gudusia chapra
• Tenualosa ilisha - ilish

Family Chandidae

• Channa gachua
• Channa marulius
• Channa punctata
• Channa striata

Spiny-rayed fishes

Gourami

• Badis badis
• Colisa lalia - dwarf gourami
• Chanda baculis
• Chanda nama - elongate glassy perchlet
• Chanda ranga - Indian glassy perch
• Colisa fasciata
• Glossogobius giuris - tank goby
• Nandus nandus
• Oreochromis mossambicus - Mozambique tilapia
• Sicamugil cascasia - yellowtail millet

Rainbow trout

Exotic species

• Ctenopharyngodon idella - grass carp
• Cyprinus carpio - common carp
• Hypophthalmichthys molitrix - silver carp
• Hypophthalmichthys nobilis - big head carp
• Maculabatis arabica - Arabic whipray
• Oncorhynchus mykiss - rainbow trout
• Salmo trutta - brown trout
• Chinese carps

References

1. Dg., Dayyal (April 28, 2009) [2009]. "Edible Fishes in Pakistan". BioScience. ISSN   2521-5760 . Retrieved March 18, 2019.

• "List of Freshwater Fishes for Pakistan"
• Wildlife - Northern Areas of Pakistan - Freshwater fish