Blackfish is a common name for the following species of fish, dolphins, and whales:

Fish

Alaska blackfish The Alaska blackfish (''Dallia pectoralis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the esocid family ( Esocidae) of order Esociformes. It inhabits Arctic regions of Alaska as well as Siberia and the Bering Sea islands. Description Alaska blackfish ...

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Esocidae Esocidae is a family of fish in the order Esociformes, which contains pike, pickerel, and mudminnows. While the family traditionally only contained the genus ''Esox'', recent genetic and paleontological research have recovered ''Novumbra'' and ' ...

from Alaska, Siberia and the Bering Sea islands * Black fish (''

Carassioides acuminatus ''Carassioides acuminatus'' or black fish is a species of cyprinid fish in the subfamily Cyprininae. It is found in central and northern Vietnam and the Pearl River (China), Pearl River and Hainan in China. It may have been introduced into Laos. ...

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cyprinid Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...

from China and Vietnam * Black ruff (''Centrolophus niger'') * Black sea bass ( ''Centropristis striata'') * Cornish blackfish (''Schedophilus medusophagus'') * ''

Gadopsis ''Gadopsis'' is a genus of temperate perches endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to ...

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River blackfish The river blackfish (''Gadopsis marmoratus'') is a freshwater fish endemic to the temperate waters of south-eastern Australia. It is found from southern Queensland through to central Victoria, including in the Murray- Darling river system. It ...

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Two-spined blackfish The two-spined blackfish (''Gadopsis bispinosus'') is a species of temperate perch endemic to Australia. It is found in the cool, clear, strong-flowing, cobble bottomed, sub-alpine rivers and streams (ranging from small to large) in the southe ...

(''G. bispinosus'') * Galjoen (''

Dichistius capensis The galjoen, black bream, or blackfish (''Dichistius capensis'') is a species of marine fish found only along the coast of southern Africa from Angola to South Africa. Galjoen is the national fish of South Africa. Distribution and habitat Th ...

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Imperial blackfish The imperial blackfish, ''Schedophilus ovalis'', is a medusafish of the family (biology), family Centrolophidae found in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, and occasionally western Atlantic (Bermuda). It occurs at depths of between 7 ...

(''Schedophilus ovalis'') * Japanese black porgy, ''

Acanthopagrus schlegelii ''Acanthopagrus schlegelii'', commonly known as the blackhead seabream, Japanese black porgy or sea bream, is a fish often farmed for food in Japan. It is one of the most popular fishes for game fishing in Japan. The body is ovoid and compressed, ...

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sea bream The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies. The sheepshead, scup, and red seabream are species in this family. Most sparids are deep-bodied compressed fish with a small mouth separated by a ...

often cultivated in

aquaculture Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lot ...

* Parore (''

Girella tricuspidata The parore (''Girella tricuspidata'') also known as luderick, black bream or blackfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae which is found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean off Australia and New Zealand. ...

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Sacramento blackfish The Sacramento blackfish (''Orthodon microlepidotus'') is a species of freshwater fish in central California. A cyprinid, the blackfish is the sole member of its genus. Distribution and habitat Blackfish are primarily denizens of the warm and ...

(''Orthodon microlepidotus'') * Tautog (''

Tautoga onitis The tautog (''Tautoga onitis''), also known as the blackfish, is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to South Carolina. This species inhabits hard substrate habitats in inshore waters at depths from . It is ...

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Dolphins

Pilot whale Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus ''Globicephala''. The two extant species are the long-finned pilot whale (''G. melas'') and the short-finned pilot whale (''G. macrorhynchus''). The two are not readily distinguishable at sea, a ...

s, genus ''Globicephala''

Whales

Many-toothed blackfish The melon-headed whale (''Peponocephala electra''), also known less commonly as the electra dolphin, little killer whale, or many-toothed blackfish, is a toothed whale of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). The common name is derived from t ...

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