Venezuela Endemic Marine Fish Checklist

Venezuela

Checklist of Endemic Marine Fish Species

This list of marine fish species found exclusively in Venezuela is based on the taxonomy used in FishBase 2004 (2004). For further details on possible inaccuracies in the list see Sources & Caveats.

FishBase 2004: a global information system on fishes. DVD. WorldFish Center - Philippine Office, Los Banos, Philippines. Published in May 2004.

The current version of this electronic database is accessible here.

OC = a FishBase occurrence record suggests a specimen from another country outside normal stated range (these vary widely in reliability from obvious misidentifications to being almost certainly correct)

Batrachoides manglae (Batrachoididae) Cotuero Toadfish

Porichthys oculofrenum (Batrachoididae)

Emblemaria culmenis (Chaenopsidae) Ridge Blenny

Emblemaria diphyodontis (Chaenopsidae) Venezuelan Blenny

Emblemariopsis ramirezi (Chaenopsidae)

Emblemariopsis randalli (Chaenopsidae) Hornless Blenny

Protemblemaria punctata (Chaenopsidae)

Jenkinsia parvula (Clupeidae) Short-striped Round Herring

Anchoviella blackburni OC (Engraulidae) Blackburns's Anchovy

Anchoviella perezi (Engraulidae)

Derilissus vittiger (Gobiesocidae)

Coryphopterus venezuelae (Gobiidae)