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Use the fish finder to find a fish by common name, scientific name or family. Please note that not all assets are available through the finders.

If you cannot find the fish you are after, enter the name of the fish in the main query box at the top right of the screen.

Class Myxini: Hagfish
Class Petromyzontida: Lampreys
Class Chondrichthyes: Shark, ray and chimaera finder
Class Sarcopterygii: Coelacanth and lungfish finder
Class Actinopterygii: Ray-finned fishes finder (most fishes)

Mark McGrouther , Collection Manager, Ichthyology
Last Updated: 3 December 2009

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Ondine Evans
10.08 AM, 07 August 2009

Thanks for your suggestion - we would love to make the Classification levels searchable at the very least - perhaps an enhancement for the future!

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rling
8.08 AM, 06 August 2009

Hi guys, I know you are all working flat out porting the old site, something that would be totally awesome would be a mini "taxonomy" bar at the top of each fish page showing the fish's place in the taxonomic hierarchy. Each taxon being a clickable link that takes you to a list of its child taxa or species. This is sometimes called a "breadcrumb trail" in web design lingo. For example across the top of the Eastern Blue Groper page would be something like: "Actinopterygii -> Perciformes -> Labridae -> Achoerodus -> A. viridis". Clicking "Labridae" for example would bring up a list of all wrasses that have pages. Big ask I know

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