List of least concern perciform fishes


There are 3878 species and 18 subspecies in the order Perciformes assessed as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Gouramis

Cichlids

Species
Subspecies

Percids

Terapontids

Epinephelids

Eleotrids

Gobies

Badids

Sparids

Species
Subspecies

Scombrids

Dragonets

Lutjanids

Sand stargazers

Tilefishes

Anabantidae

Pomacentrids

Sciaenids

  • Freshwater drum
  • Meagre
  • White seabass
  • Armed croaker
  • American silver perch
  • Swordpsine croaker
  • Bairdiella
  • Ground croaker
  • Blue croaker
  • Striped croaker
  • Barbel drum
  • Acoupa weakfish
  • Peruvian weakfish
  • Sand seatrout
  • Jamaican weakfish
  • Smooth weakfish
  • Smallscale weakfish
  • Dwarf weakfish
  • Spotted weakfish
  • Silver seatrout
  • Cachema weakfish
  • Striped corvina
  • Tonkin weakfish
  • Scalyfin corvina
  • Smalltooth weakfish
  • Pelano weakfish
  • Green weakfish
  • Bluestreak drum
  • Jack-knifefish
  • Spotted drum
  • Bigtooth corvina
  • Bigeye corvina
  • Big-eyed jewfish
  • Paperhead croaker
  • Steeplined drum
  • Silver drum
  • Shorthead drum
  • Shining drum
  • Larimus fasciatus
  • Pacific drum
  • Spot
  • Longtail croaker
  • King weakfish
  • Southern kingfish
  • Pacific kingcroaker
  • Gulf kingfish
  • Berrugato real
  • Snakehead kingcroaker
  • Paita kingcroaker
  • Berrugato panameño
  • Northern kingcroaker
  • Tallfin croaker
  • Slender croaker
  • Whitemouth croaker
  • Chano norteño
  • Atlantic croaker
  • Angola croaker
  • Smalleye croaker
  • Pacific smalleye croaker
  • Reef croaker
  • Yelloweye croaker
  • Blinkard croaker
  • Impostor drum
  • Point-tuza croaker
  • Snub-nosed croaker
  • Squint-eyed croaker
  • Point-nosed croaker
  • Vermiculated croaker
  • Banded croaker
  • Suco croaker
  • Angel croaker
  • Coco croaker
  • Peters' banded croaker
  • Bearded banded croaker
  • High-hat
  • Festive drum
  • Blackbar drum
  • Royal high-hat
  • Cubbyu
  • Gungo high-hat
  • Black drum
  • Deep-water drum
  • New grenada drum
  • Bobo croaker
  • Guinea croaker
  • Cameroon croaker
  • Longneck croaker
  • Boe drum
  • Blotched tiger-toothed croaker
  • Spotfin croaker
  • Sciaena deliciosa
  • Sciaena fasciata
  • Red drum
  • Queenfish
  • Chao stardrum
  • Shortnose stardrum
  • Colon stardrum
  • Stellifer ephelis
  • Hollow stardrum
  • White stardrum
  • Gray stardrum
  • Silver stardrum
  • American stardrum
  • Smooth stardrum
  • Black stardrum
  • Smalleye stardrum
  • Stellifer minor
  • Naso stardrum
  • Yawning stardrum
  • Pizzaro stardrum
  • Rake stardrum
  • Venezuelan stardrum
  • Softhead stardrum
  • Longspine croaker
  • Beach drum
  • Bussing's drum
  • Canary drum
  • Sand drum
  • Longfin croaker
  • Miller drum
  • Umbrina reedi
  • Yellowfin croaker
  • Common yellowtail croaker

Threadfins

Centrarchids

Snakeheads

Labrisomids

Serranids

  • Eastern wirrah
  • Peruvian seabass
  • Swallowtail seaperch
  • Yellowfin bass
  • Swallowtail bass
  • Streamer bass
  • Red barbier
  • Pugnose bass
  • Twospot sea bass
  • Bank sea bass
  • Centropristis philadelphica
  • Black sea bass
  • Choranthias salmopunctatus
  • Threadnose bass
  • Dwarf sand perch
  • Diplectrum conceptione
  • Orange-spotted sand perch
  • Bighead sand perch
  • Diplectrum formosum
  • Highfin sand perch
  • Mexican sand perch
  • Greater sand perch
  • Inshore sand perch
  • Pond perch
  • Bridled sand perch
  • Gulf squirrelfish
  • Longtail bass
  • Rose thread-fin bass
  • Damsel bass
  • Yellowbelly hamlet
  • Yellowtail hamlet
  • Florida barred hamlet
  • Blue hamlet
  • Golden hamlet
  • Shy hamlet
  • Indigo hamlet
  • Black hamlet
  • Masked hamlet
  • Barred hamlet
  • Tan hamlet
  • Butter hamlet
  • Western orange perch
  • Eyestripe bass
  • Candy basslet
  • Wrasse bass
  • Rainbow basslet
  • Cave bass
  • Peppermint bass
  • Earle's splitfin
  • Luzonichthys williamsi
  • Odontanthias tapui
  • Kelp Bass
  • Vieja parrot rock-bass
  • Spotted sand bass
  • Barred sand bass
  • Bank bass
  • Forktailed bass
  • Plectranthias bauchotae
  • Plectranthias bilaticlavia
  • Apricot bass
  • Roughtongue bass
  • Threadfin bass
  • Pseudanthias caudalis
  • Nusa Penida basslet
  • Flame anthias
  • Painted anthias
  • Mirror basslet
  • Pseudanthias ventralis
  • Reef bass
  • Pseudogramma guineensis
  • Pacific reef bass
  • Flathead perch
  • Mottled soapfish
  • Freckled soapfish
  • Largespotted soapfish
  • Slope soapfish
  • Whitespotted soapfish
  • Blackfin soapfish
  • Plain soapfish
  • Greater soapfish
  • Spotted soapfish
  • School bass
  • Pygmy sea bass
  • Serranus accraensis
  • Deepwater serrano
  • Serranus africanus
  • Orangeback bass
  • Blackear bass
  • Lantern bass
  • Comber
  • Caribbean snow bass
  • Twinspot bass
  • Brown comber
  • Serranus heterurus
  • Flag serrano
  • Crosshatch bass
  • Pallid bass
  • Saddle bass
  • Tattler
  • Barred serrano
  • Serranus sanctaehelenae
  • Painted comber
  • Serranus stilbostigma
  • Belted sandfish
  • Tobacco basslet
  • Cocos serrano
  • Harlequin bass
  • Chalk bass

Chaenopsids

Combtooth blennies

Sea chubs

Goatfishes

Hawkfishes

Microdesmids

  • Pugjaw wormfish
  • Microdesmus aethiopicus
  • Reef wormfish
  • Stippled wormfish
  • Lancetail wormfish
  • Pink wormfish
  • Fire dartfish
  • Parioglossus formosus
  • Parioglossus palustris
  • Parioglossus rainfordi
  • Yellow dartfish
  • Striped dartfish
  • Blue dartfish
  • Panamic dartfish
  • Helen's dartfish
  • Brazilian dartfish

Clinids

Wrasses

Threefin blennies

Pomacanthids

Haemulids

Apogonids

Ambassids

Carangids

Species
Subspecies
  • Leathercoat
  • Atlantic leatherjacket

Acanthurids

Butterflyfishes

Sand lances

Surfperches

Trichiuridae

Stargazers

Ponyfishes

Percophids

Pomfrets

Centracanthids

Centrolophidae

Centropomids

  • Armed snook
  • Swordspine snook
  • Blackfin snook
  • Largescale fat snook
  • Black robalo
  • Fat snook
  • Tarpon snook
  • Yellowfin snook
  • Common snook
  • Humpback snook
  • White snook

Ephippids

Chiasmodontids

  • Chiasmodon braueri
  • Black swallower
  • Chiasmodon subniger
  • Dysalotus alcocki
  • Dysalotus oligoscolus
  • Kali indica
  • Kali kerberti
  • Kali macrodon
  • Kali macrura
  • Kali parri
  • Pseudoscopelus altipinnis
  • Pseudoscopelus scriptus
  • ''Pseudoscopelus scutatus''

Driftfishes

Mojarras

Moronids

Gempylids

Remoras

Deepwater cardinalfishes

Grammatids

Eelpout species

  • Hadropareia middendorffii
  • Hadropogonichthys lindbergi
  • Iluocoetes elongatus
  • Lycenchelys hippopotamus
  • Lycenchelys monstrosa
  • Ebony eelpout
  • Shulupaoluk
  • Paamiut eelpout
  • Atlantic soft pout
  • Pachycara bulbiceps
  • Pachycara crassiceps
  • Pachycara crossacanthum
  • ''Phucocoetes latitans''

Priacanthids

Opistognathids

  • Higman's jawfish
  • Palemouth jawfish
  • Swordtail jawfish
  • Longtailed jawfish
  • Yellowhead jawfish
  • Opistognathus fossoris
  • Galapagos jawfish
  • Yellow jawfish
  • Scalecheek jawfish
  • Moustache jawfish
  • Banded jawfish
  • Mottled jawfish
  • Largescale jawfish
  • Megamouth jawfish
  • Yellowmouth jawfish
  • Panamanian jawfish
  • Finespotted jawfish
  • Giant jawfish
  • Opistognathus robinsi
  • Blue-spotted jawfish
  • Bullseye jawfish
  • Dark-spotted jawfish
  • Dusky jawfish

Nandids

Sandperches

  • Blue cod
  • Blackflag sandperch
  • Somali sandperch
  • Parapercis striolata
  • Peppered grubfish
  • Namorado sandperch

Stromateids

Barracudas

Acropomatids

Weevers

Other Perciformes species