List of endangered fishes
In September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed 643 endangered fish species. Of all evaluated fish species, 4.2% are listed as endangered.
The IUCN also lists ten fish subspecies as endangered.
Of the subpopulations of fishes evaluated by the IUCN, 24 species subpopulations have been assessed as endangered.
For a species to be considered endangered by the IUCN it must meet certain quantitative criteria which are designed to classify taxa facing "a very high risk of extinction". An even higher risk is faced by critically endangered species, which meet the quantitative criteria for endangered species. List of [critically endangered fishes|Critically endangered fishes] are listed separately. There are 1098 fish species which are endangered or critically endangered.
Additionally 3191 fish species are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small distributions and/or populations, they are intrinsically likely to be threatened, according to the IUCN. While the category of data deficient indicates that no assessment of extinction risk has been made for the taxa, the IUCN notes that it may be appropriate to give them "the same degree of attention as threatened taxa, at least until their status can be assessed".
This is a complete list of endangered fish species and subspecies evaluated by the IUCN. Species and subspecies which have endangered subpopulations are indicated.
Cartilaginous fishes
Chondrichthyes includes sharks, rays, skates, and saw-fish. There are 124 cartilaginous fishes classified as endangered by the IUCN.Prickly sharks
Carpet sharks
Ground sharks
- Blacknose shark
- Grey reef shark
- Whitecheek shark
- Smoothtooth blacktip shark
- Dusky shark
- Caribbean reef shark
- Sandbar shark
- Night shark
- Winghead shark
- Blackspotted catshark
- Happy Eddie
- Indonesian houndshark
- Sharpfin houndshark
- Japanese topeshark
- Honeycomb Izak
- African spotted catshark
- Broadfin shark
- Borneo broadfin shark
- Spotless smoothhound
- Smalleye smoothhound
- Starspotted smoothhound
- Venezuelan dwarf smoothhound
- Common smoothhound
- Whitenose shark
- Sharptooth lemon shark
- Straight-tooth weasel shark
- Atlantic weasel shark
- Bonnethead
- Banded houndshark
Mackerel sharks
Dogfishes
- Gulper shark
- Dumb gulper shark
- Blackfin gulper shark
- African gulper shark
- Longfin gulper shark
- Leafscale gulper shark
- Mosaic gulper shark
- Little gulper shark
- Angular roughshark
- Japanese shortnose spurdog
- Greeneye spurdog
- Taiwan spurdog
- Japanese spurdog
- Shortspine spurdog
Angel sharks
'''Species'''Skates
- Eyespot skate
- La Plata skate
- Graytail skate
- Mottled skate
- Grey skate
- Yellownose skate
- Maugean skate
- Roughskin skate
- Sandy skate
- Winter skate
- Twineye skate
- Rough skate
- Undulate skate
- Bottlenose skate
Rays
- Longhead eagle ray
- Whitespotted eagle ray
- Ocellate eagle ray
- Ornate eagle ray
- Mottled eagle ray
- Giant manta ray
- Longhorned pygmy devil ray
- Atlantic devil ray
- Shortfin devil ray
- Spinetail devil ray
- Chilean devil ray
- Bentfin devil ray
- Giant freshwater whipray
- White-edge whipray
- Coach whipray
- Bleeker's whipray
- Sharpnose whipray
- Marbled whipray
- Round whipray
- Roughback whipray
- Whitespotted whipray
- Tubemouth whipray
- Whitenose whipray
- Javan whipray
- Honeycomb whipray
- Narrow cowtail ray
- Roughnose cowtail ray
- Javanese cownose ray
- Oman cownose ray
- Mekong stingray
- Seret's butterfly ray
- Spiny butterfly ray
- Zonetail butterfly ray
- Groovebelly stingray
- Atlantic chupare
- Coastal stingaree
- Raya Amazonica
- Indian sharpnose ray
- Venezuelan round ray
- Chinese stingray
- Large-eye stingray
Sawfish and guitarfish
- Greyspot guitarfish
- Knifetooth sawfish
- Dwarf sawfish
- Chola guitarfish
- Borneo guitarfish
- Ringed guitarfish
- Indonesian guitarfish
- Shortnose guitarfish
Torpedo rays
Ray-finned fishes
Subpopulations- ''Squatina guggenheim''
Mackerel sharks
SubpopulationsGround sharks
SpeciesSubpopulations
Carpet sharks
Squaliformes
SpeciesSubpopulations
Lampreys
Ray-finned fishes
There are 592 species, ten subspecies, and three subpopulations of ray-finned fish assessed as endangered.Salmoniformes
SpeciesSubpopulations
Toothcarps
There are 65 species and nine subspecies of toothcarp assessed as endangered.Pupfish
SpeciesSubspecies
Nothobranchiids
Species'''Subspecies'''
Cypriniformes
Cypriniformes includes carps, minnows, loaches and relatives. There are 245 species in the order Cypriniformes assessed as endangered.Ellopostomatids
Psilorhynchids
Osmeriformes
SpeciesSubspecies
Perciformes
There are 133 species and one subpopulation in the order Perciformes assessed as endangered.Other Perciformes
SpeciesSubpopulations
Other ray-finned fishes
SpeciesSubpopulations