List of freshwater fish of Korea

This is a list of species of fish found in the rivers and lakes of the Korean Peninsula.

Lampreys

# Arctic lamprey, "Lampetra japonica" (Martens, 1868) - korlink|칠성장어
# Far Eastern brook lamprey, "Lampetra reissneri" (Dybowski, 1869) - korlink|다묵장어
# Korean lamprey, "Lampetra morii" (Berg, 1931) - korlink|칠성말배꼽

turgeons and paddlefish

# Chinese sturgeon, "Acipenser sinensis" (Gray, 1834) - korlink|철갑상어
# Yangtze sturgeon, "Acipenser dabryanus" (Dumeril, 1868) - korlink|칼상어
# green sturgeon, "Acipenser medirostris" (Ayres, 1854) - korlink|용상어

Eels

# Japanese eel, "Anguilla japonica" (Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|뱀장어
# marbled eel, "Anguilla marmorata" (Quoy and Gaiamard, 1824) - korlink|무태장어

Herring

# Japanese grenadier anchovy, "Coilia nasus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|웅어
# tapertail anchovy, "Coilia mystus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|싱어
# big-eye herring, "Sardinella zunasi" (Bleeker, 1854) - korlink|밴댕이
# hickory shad, "Konosirus punctatus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|전어

Carp and minnows

# common carp, "Cyprinus carpio carpio" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|잉어
# crucian carp, "Carassius carassius" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|붕어
# Japanese crucian carp, "Carassius cuvieri" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|떡붕어
# grass carp, "Ctenopharyngodon idella" (Cuvier et Valenciennes) - korlink|초어
# rose bitterling, "Rhodeus ocellatus" (Kner, 1867) - korlink|흰줄납줄개
# Han River bitterling, "Rhodeus pseudosericeus" (Arai, Jeon, et Ueda) - korlink|한강납줄개
# "Rhodeus notatus" (Nichols, 1929) - korlink|떡납줄갱이
# Korean rose bitterling, "Rhodeus uyekii" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|각시붕어
# Seoho bitterling, "Acheilognathus hondae" (Jordan et Metz, 1913) - korlink|서호납줄갱이
# slender bitterling, "Tanakia lanceolata" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|납자루
# Korean bitterling, "Acheilognathus signifer" (Berg, 1907) - korlink|묵납자루
# oily bitterling, "Acheilognathus koreensis" (Kim et Kim, 1990) - korlink|칼납자루
# Seomjin bitterling, "Acheilognathus somjinensis" (Kim et Kim, 1991) - korlink|임실납자루
# Korean striped bitterling, "Acheilognathus yamatsutae" (Mori, 1928) - korlink|줄납자루
# large striped bitterling, "Acheilognathus majusculus" (Kim et Yang, 1998) - korlink|큰줄납자루
# flat bitterling, "Acheilognathus rhombeus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|납지리
# deep body bitterling, " Acheilognathus macropterus" (Bleeker, 1871) - korlink|큰납지리
# Korean spined bitterling, "Acanthorhodeus gracilis" (Regan, 1890) - korlink|가시납지리
# false dace, "Pseudorasbora parva" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|참붕어
# striped shiner, "Pungtungia herzi" (Herzenstein, 1892) - korlink|돌고기
# black shiner, "Pseudopungtungia nigra" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|감돌고기
# slender shiner, "Pseudopungtungia tenuicorpus" (Jeon et Choi, 1980) - korlink|가는돌고기
# Korean splendid dace, "Coreoleuciscus splendidus" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|쉬리
# Tachanovsky's gudgeon, "Ladislavia taczanowskii" (Dybowski, 1869) - korlink|새미
# oily shiner, " Sarcocheilichthys variegatus microoculus" (Mori, 1927) - korlink|참중고기
# Cherskii's thicklip gudgeon, "Sarcocheilichthys czerskii " (Berg, 1914) - korlink|북방중고기
# Korean oily shiner, "Sarcocheilichthys nigripinnus morii" (Jordan et Hubbs, 1925) - korlink|중고기
# striped false gudgeon, "Gnathopogon strigatus" (Regan, 1908) - korlink|줄몰개
# Korean slender gudgeon, "Squalidus gracilis majimae" (Jordan et Hubbs, 1925) - korlink|긴몰개
# short barbel gudgeon, " Squalidus japonicus coreanus" (Berg, 1906) - korlink|몰개
# Korean gudgeon, "Squalidus chankaensis tsuchigae" (Jordan et Hubbs, 1925) - korlink|참몰개
# spotted-barbel gudgeon, "Squalidus multimaculatus" (Hosoya et Jeon, 1984) - korlink|점몰개
# gudgeon, "Gobio cynocephalus" (Dybowski, 1869) - korlink|모샘치
# brass gudgeon, "Coreius heterodon" (Bleeker, 1865) - korlink|게톱치
# steed barbel, "Hemibarbus labeo" (Pallas, 1707FIXME) - korlink|누치
# long-nosed barbel, "Hemibarbus longirostris" (Regan, 1908) - korlink|참마자
# Korean barbel, "Hemibarbus mylodon" (Berg, 1907) - korlink|어름치
# goby minnow, "Pseudogobio esocinus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|모래무지
# Chinese false gudgeon, "Abbottina rivularis" (Basilewsky, 1855) - korlink|버들매치
# Korean dwarf gudgeon, "Abbottina springeri" (Banarescu et Nalbant, 1973) - korlink|왜매치
# "Gobiobotia macrocephala" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|꾸구리
# "Gobiobotia brevibarba" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|돌상어
# "Gobiobotia naktongensis" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|흰수마자
# "Mesogobio lachneri" (Banarescu et Nalbant, 1973) - korlink|압록자그사니
# "Mesogobio tumensis" (Chang, 1979) - korlink|두만강자그사니
# "Microphysogobio koreensis" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|모래주사
# "Microphysogobio yaluensis" (Mori, 1928) - korlink|돌마자
# "Microphysogobio rapidus" (Chae et Yang, 1999) - korlink|여울마자
# "Microphysogobio jeoni" (Kim et Yang, 1999) - korlink|됭경모치
# "Microphysogobio longidorsalis" (Mori, 1935) - korlink|배가사리
# Chinese gudgeon, "Saurogobio dabryi" (Bleeker, 1871) - korlink|두우쟁이
# "Leuciscus waleckii" (Dybowski, 1869) - korlink|야레
# silver carp, "Hypophthalmichthys molitrix" (Cuvier et Valenciennes) - korlink|백련어
# bighead carp, "Aristichthys nobilis" (Richardson) - korlink|대두어
# sea rundace, "Tribolodon hakonensis" (Günther, 1880) - korlink|황어
# "Tribolodon brandtii" (Dybowski, 1872) - korlink|대황어
# common minnow, "Phoxinus phoxinus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|연준모치
# Chinese minnow, "Rhynchocypris oxycephalus" (Sauvage et Darby, 1874) - korlink|버들치
# Amur minnow, "Rhynchocypris steindachneri" (Dybowski, 1869) - korlink|버들개
# "Rhynchocypris percnurus" (Pallas, 1811) - korlink|동버들개
# Kumgang fat minnow, "Rhynchocypris kumgangensis" (Kim, 1980) - korlink|금강모치
# black star fat minnow, "Rhynchocypris semotilus" (Jordan et Starks, 1905) - korlink|버들가지
# Venus fish, "Aphyocypris chinensis" (Günther, 1868) - korlink|왜몰개
# dark chub, "Zacco temminckii" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|갈견이
# pale chub, "Zacco platypus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|피라미
# Korean piscivorous chub, "Opsariichthys uncirostris amurensis" (Berg, 1940) - korlink|끄리
# barbel chub, "Squaliobarbus curriculus" (Richardson, 1846) - korlink|눈불개
# skygazer, "Erythroculter erythropterus" (Basilewsky, 1855) - korlink|강준치
# redfin culter, "Culter brevicauda" (Günther, 1868) - korlink|백조어
# Korean sharpbelly, "Hemiculter eigenmanni" (Jordan et Metz, 1913) - korlink|치리
# sharpbelly, "Hemiculter leucisculus" (Basilewsky, 1855) - korlink|살치
# Siberian stone loach, "Orthrias toni" (Dybowsky, 1869) - korlink|종개
# continental stone loach, "Orthrias nudus" (Bleeker, 1865) - korlink|대륙종개
# eight-barbel loach, "Lefua costata" (Kessler, 1876) - korlink|쌀미꾸리
# muddy loach, "Misgurnus anguillicaudatus" (Cantor, 1842) - korlink|미꾸리
# Chinese muddy loach, "Misgurnus mizolepis" (Günther, 1888) - korlink|미꾸라지
# white-nose loach, "Koreocobitis rotundicaudata" (Wakiya et Mori, 1929) - korlink|새코미꾸리
# Nakdong nose loach, "Koreocobitis naktongensis" (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 2000) - korlink|얼룩새코미꾸리
# Korean spine loach, "Iksookimia koreensis" (Kim, 1975) - korlink|참종개
# Buan spine loach, "Iksookimia pumila" (Kim et Lee, 1987) - korlink|부안종개
# Miho spine loach, "Iksookimia choii" (Kim et Son, 1984) - korlink|미호종개
# king spine loach, "Iksookimia longicorpa" (Kim, Choi, et Nalbant, 1976) - korlink|왕종개
# southern king spine loach, "Iksookimia huwowolfedi" (Nalbant, 1993) - korlink|남방종개
# eastern spine loach, "Iksookimia yongdokensis" (Kim et Park, 1997) - korlink|동방종개
# spine loach, "Cobitis sinensis" (Sauvage et Dabryi, 1874) - korlink|기름종개
# sand spine loach, "Cobitis lutheri" (Rendahl, 1935) - korlink|점줄종개
# striped spine loach, "Cobitis tetralineata" (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 1999) - korlink|줄종개
# northern loach, "Cobitis pacifica" (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 1999) - korlink|북방종개
# "Niwaella multifasciata" (Wakiya et Mori, 1929) - korlink|수수미꾸리
# dwarf loach, "Kichulchoia brevifasciata" (Kim et Lee, 1996) - korlink|좀수수치
# Korean bullhead, "Pseudobagrus fulvidraco" (Richardson, 1846) - korlink|동자개
# black bullhead, "Pseudobagrus koreanus" (Uchida, 1990) - korlink|눈동자개
# Korean stumpy bullhead, "Pseudobagrus brevicorpus" (Mori, 1936) - korlink|꼬치동자개
# Ussurian bullhead, "Leiocassis ussuriensis" (Dybowski, 1871) - korlink|대농갱이
# light bullhead, "Leiocassis nitidus" (Sauvage et Dabryi, 1874) - korlink|밀자개
# long-snout bullhead, "Leiocassis longirostris" (Günther, 1864) - korlink|종어
# Far Eastern catfish, "Silurus asotus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|메기
# slender catfish, "Silurus microdorsalis" (Mori, 1936) - korlink|미유기
# channel catfish, "Ictalurus punctatus" (Rafinesque) - korlink|찬넬동자개
# south torrent catfish, "Liobagrus mediadiposalis" (Mori, 1936) - korlink|자가사리
# Korean torrent catfish, "Liobagrus andersoni" (Regan, 1908) - korlink|통가리
# bullhead torrent catfish, "Liobagrus obesus" (Son, Kim, et Choo, 1987) - korlink|통사리

melt

# pond smelt, "Hypomesus nipponensis" (McAllister, 1963) - korlink|빙어
# sweet smelt, "Plecoglossus altivelis" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|은어
# ariake ice fish, "Salanx ariakensis" (Kishinouye, 1901) - korlink|국수뱅어
# cherry ice fish, "Hemisalanx prognathus" (Regan, 1908) - korlink|벚꽃뱅어
# flower ice fish, "Neosalanx andersoni" (Rendahl, 1923) - korlink|도화뱅어
# "Neosalanx jordani" (Wakiya et Takahashi, 1937) - korlink|젓뱅어
# short ice fish, "Neosalanx hubbsi" (Wakiya et Takahashi, 1937) - korlink|실뱅어
# king ice fish, "Protosalanx chinensis" (Basilewsky, 1855) - korlink|붕퉁뱅어
# ice fish, "Salangichthys microdon" (Bleeker, 1860) - korlink|뱅어

Salmon

# grayling, "Thymallus articus jaluensis" (Mori, 1928) - korlink|사루기
# Manchurian trout, "Brachymystax lenk tsinlingensis" (Li, 1966) - korlink|열목어
# chum salmon, "Onchorhynchus keta" (Walbaum, 1792) - korlink|연어
# Sakhalin salmon, "Onchorhynchus gorbuscha" (Walbaum, 1792) - korlink|곱사연어
# river salmon, "Onchorhynchus masou masou" (Brevoort, 1856) - korlink|송어
# coho salmon, "Onchorhynchus kisutch" (Walbaum, 1792) - korlink|은연어
# rainbow trout, "Onchorhynchus mykiss" (Walbaum, 1792) - korlink|무지개송어
# Korean taimen, "Hucho ishakawai" (Mori, 1928) - korlink|자치
# white-spotted char, "Salvelinus leucomaenis" (Pallas, 1811) - korlink|홍송어
# malma trout, "Salvelinus malmus" (Walbaum, 1792) - korlink|곤들매기

Cod

# burbot, "Lota lota" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|모오캐

Perch-like fish

# striped mullet, "Mugil cephalus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|숭어
# liza, "Chelon affinis" (Günther, 1861) - korlink|등줄숭어
# redlip mullet, "Chelon haematocheilus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|가숭어
# temperate sea bass, "Lateolabrax japonicus" (Cuvier, 1828) - korlink|농어
# mandarin fish, "Siniperca scherzeri" (Steindachner, 1892) - korlink|쏘가리
# Japanese aucha perch, "Coreoperca kawamebari" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1842) - korlink|꺽저기
# Korean aucha perch, "Coreoperca herzi" (Herzenstein, 1896) - korlink|꺽지
# bluegill, "Lepomis macrochirus" (Rafinesque, 1819) - korlink|블루길
# largemouth bass, "Micropterus salmoides" (Lacepede) - korlink|베스
# Nile tilapia, "Oreochromis niloticus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|나일틸라피아
# spotnape pony fish, "Leiognathus nuchalis" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|주둥치
# dragonet fish, "Repomucenus olidus" (Gunther, 1873) - korlink|강주걱양태
# spined sleeper, "Eleotris oxycephala" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|구굴무치
# Korean dark sleeper, "Odontobutis platycephala" (Iwata et Jeon, 1985) - korlink|동사리
# dark sleeper, "Odontobutis interrupta" (Iwata et Jeon, 1985) - korlink|얼룩동사리
# dark sleeper, "Odontobutis obscura" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|남방동사리

# Taiwanese fire-bellied gudgeon, "Micropercops swinhonis" (Gunther, 1873) - korlink|좀구굴치
# chestnut goby, "Chaenogobius castaneus" (O'Shaughnessy, 1875) - korlink|날망둑
# floating goby, "Chaenogobius urotaenia" (Hilgendorf, 1879) - korlink|꾹저구
# bigjaw goby, "Chaenogobius macrognathus" (Bleeker, 1860) - korlink|왜꾹저구
# oriental goby, "Acanthogobius flavimanus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|문절망둑
# "Acanthogobius elongata" (Ni et Wu, 1985) - korlink|왜풀망둑
# white ventral goby, "Acanthogobius lactipes" (Hilgendorf, 1879) - korlink|흰발망둑
# "Acanthogobius luridus" (Ni et Wu, 1985) - korlink|비늘흰발망둑
# "Synechogobius hasta" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|풀망둑
# parrot goby, "Sicyopterus japonicus" (Tanaka, 1909) - korlink|열동갈문절
# "Pseudogobius masago" (Tomiyama, 1936) - korlink|애기망둑
# brown goby, "Bathygobius fuscus" (Ruppel, 1830) - korlink|무늬망둑
# paradise goby, "Rhinogobius giurinus" (Rutter, 1897) - korlink|갈문망둑
# common freshwater goby, "Rhinogobius brunneus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|밀어
# "Tridentiger bifasciatus" (Steindachner, 1881) - korlink|민물두줄망둑
# bare-naped goby, "Tridentiger nudicervicus" (Tomiyama, 1934) - korlink|황줄망둑
# trident goby, "Tridentiger obscurus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|검정망둑
# trident goby, "Tridentiger brevispinis" (Katsuyama, Arai, et Nakamura, 1972) - korlink|민물검정망둑
# striped goby, "Acentrogobius pflaumi" (Bleeker, 1853) - korlink|줄망둑
# spotted goby, "Acentrogobius pellidebilis" (Lee et Kim, 1992) - korlink|점줄망둑
# "Favonigobius gymnauchen" (Bleeker, 1860) - korlink|날개망둑
# estuarine goby, "Mugilogobius abei" (Jordan et Snyder, 1901) - korlink|모치망둑
# "Mugilogobius fontinalis" (Jordan et Seale, 1906) - korlink|제주모치망둑
# "Parioglossus dotui" (Tomiyama, 1958) - korlink|꼬마청황
# blue-spotted mud hopper, "Boleophthalmus pectinirostris" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|짱뚱어
# mud hopper, "Periopthalmus modestus" (Cantor, 1842) - korlink|말뚝망둥어
# "Periopthalmus magnuspinnatus" (Lee, Choi, et Ryu, 1995) - korlink|큰볏말뚝망둥어
# flat-head goby, "Luciogobius guttatus" (Gill, 1859) - korlink|미끈망둑
# ice goby, "Leucopsarion petersii" (Hilgendorf, 1880) - korlink|서백어
# red eel goby, "Ctenotrypauchen microcephalus" (Bleeker, 1860) - korlink|빨갱이
# eel goby, "Odontamblyopus lacepedii" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|개소겡
# round-tailed paradise fish, "Macropodus ocellatus" (Cantor, 1842) - korlink|버들붕어
# northern snakehead, "Channa argus" (Cantor, 1842) - korlink|가물치

Needlefish

# Asiatic ricefish, "Oryzias latipes" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|송사리
# dwarf ricefish, "Oryzias sinensis" (Chen, Uwa, et Chu, 1989) - korlink|대륙송사리
# brackish halfbeak, "Hyporhamphus intermedius" (Cantor, 1842) - korlink|줄공치
# Japanese halfbeak, "Hyporhamphus sajori" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) - korlink|학공치

ticklebacks

# three-spined stickleback, "Gasterosteus aculeatus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|큰가시고기
# Chinese nine-spined stickleback, "Pungitius sinensis" (Guichenot, 1869) - korlink|가시고기
# Sakhalin stickleback, "Pungitius tymensis" (Nikolsky, 1889) - korlink|두만가시고기
# nine-spined stickleback, "Pungitius pungitius" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|청가시고기
# short nine-spined stickleback, "Pungitius kaibarae" (Tanaka, 1915) - korlink|잔가시고기

Pipefish

# pipe fish, "Syngnathus schlegeli" (Kaup, 1856) - korlink|실고기

piny eels

# ricefield swamp eel, "Monopterus albus" (Zuiew, 1793) - korlink|드렁허리

corpionfish and flatheads

# black rockfish, "Sebastes schlegeli" (Hilgendorf, 1880) - korlink|조피볼락
# bartail flathead, "Platycephalus indicus" (Linnaeus, 1758) - korlink|양태
# Siberian sculpin, "Cottus poecilopus" (Heckel, 1837) - korlink|둑중개
# Tumen River sculpin, "Cottus hangiongensis" (Mori, 1930) - korlink|한둑중개
# Cherskii's sculpin, "Cottus czerskii" (Berg, 1913) - korlink|참둑중개
# frog sculpin, "Myoxocephalus stelleri" (Tilesius, 1811) - korlink|개구리꺽정이
# rough-skinned sculpin, "Trachidermus fasciatus" (Heckel, 1837) - korlink|꺽정이

Flatfish

# stone flounder, "Kareius bicoloratus" (Basilewsky, 1855) - korlink|돌가자미
# starry flounder, "Platichthys stellatus" (Pallas, 1788) - korlink|강도다리
# fine-spotted flounder, "Pleuronichthys cornutus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) - korlink|도다리
# "Cynoglossus semilaevis" (Gunther, 1873) - korlink|박대

Puffers

# striped puffer, "Takifugu xanthopterus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) - korlink|까치복
# vermiculated puffer, "Takifugu vermicularis" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) - korlink|매리복
# grass puffer, "Takifugu niphobles" (Jordan et Snyder, 1901) - korlink|복섬
# fine-patterned puffer, "Takifugu poecilonotus" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) - korlink|흰점복
# river puffer, "Takifugu obscurus" (Abe, 1949) - korlink|황복
# tiger puffer, "Takifugu rubripes" (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) - korlink|자주복

References

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ee also

* List of amphibians of Korea
* List of reptiles of Korea
* List of mammals of Korea
* List of passerine birds of Korea
* List of non-passerine birds of Korea