Freshwater fish species list
This page lists all of New Zealand's freshwater fish species.
Choose the species you are interested in from the list below.
[Please note: our fish finder database is undergoing maintenance and updating, so some species information may not be available through these links at present.]
- Alpine Galaxias
- Freshwater Eels
- Atlantic Salmon
- Australian Longfin Eel
- Banded Kokopu
- Bignose Galaxias
- Black Flounder
- Black Mudfish
- Bluegill Bully
- Brook Char
- Brown Mudfish
- Brown Trout
- Canterbury Galaxias
- Canterbury Mudfish
- Catfish
- Chatham mudfish
- Chinook Salmon
- Common Bully
- Common Smelt
- Crans Bully
- Carps
- Dart Goby
- Dusky Galaxias
- Dwarf Galaxias
- Dwarf Inanga
- Eldons Galaxias
- Bullies
- Estuarine Triplefin
- Flathead Galaxias
- Galaxiidae
- Giant Bully
- Giant Kokopu
- Goldfish
- Gollum Galaxias
- Grass Carp
- Grayling
- Grey Mullet
- Inanga
- Koaro
- Koi Carp
- Lamprey
- Longfin Eel
- Longjaw Galaxias
- Lowland Longjaw Galaxias
- Mackinaw
- Mosquitofish
- Northland Mudfish
- Orfe
- Other Poeciliidae
- Perch
- Poeciliidae
- Rainbow Trout
- Redfin Bully
- Roundhead Galaxias
- Rudd
- Salmonidae
- Shortfin Eel
- Shortjaw Kokopu
- Silver Carp
- Sockeye Salmon
- Stokells Smelt
- Tarndale Bully
- Tench
- Torrentfish
- Upland Bully
- Yelloweyed Mullet
Featured
Giant kokopu live mainly in small forest-covered streams but can grow to 60 cm in length (Credit: Stephen Moore)