Animal scientific names
- Fish scientific name
- Bird scientific name
- Snake scientific name
- Dolphin scientific name
- Shark scientific name
- Whale scientific name
- Crab scientific name
- Butterfly scientific name
- Spider scientific name
Scientific names
As an example of a scientific name in action, the scientific name for humans is Homo sapiens. In this example of a scientific name, the genus name is Homo and the species is sapiens. These terms are unique and no other species can have this same name. Scientific names are designed to tell you something about an animal's relationships with other animals.
Fish Scientific Names L
- Lace Catfish - Synodontis nigrita
- Lace Gourami - Trichogaster leeri
- Ladder Loach - Botia rostrata
- Lake Chubsucker - Erimyzon sucetta
- Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish - Melanotaenia lacustris
- Lake Tebera Rainbowfish - Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi
- Lanceolate Whiptail Catfish - Rineloricaria lanceolata
- Lapradei Nile Bichir - Polypterus bichir lapradei
- Largemouth Buffalo - Ictiobus cyprinellus
- Large-Scaled Barb - Acrossocheilus sumatranus
- Laticeps Stingray - Potamotrygon laticeps
- Laulao Catfish - Brachyplatystoma vaillanti
- Le Conte’s Loach - Botia lecontei
- Leaf Fish - Monocirrhus polyacanthus
- Leeri Gourami - Trichogaster leeri
- Leleupi - Neolamprologus leleupi
- Lemon Algae Eater - Gyrinocheilus aymonieri
- Lemon Cichlid - Neolamprologus leleupi
- Lemon Fin Barb - Barbus daruphani
- Lemon Tetra - Hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis
- Leopard Ctenopoma - Ctenopoma acutirostre
- Leopard Danio - Brachydanio rerio “frankei”
- Leopold’s Angelfish - Pterophyllum leopoldi
- Leporinus - Leporinus fasciatus
- Leptosoma Cichlid - Cyprichromis leptosoma
- Lesser Bleeding Heart Tetra - Hyphessobrycon socolofi
- Letourneaux’s Jewel Cichlid - Hemichromis letourneauxi
- Licorice Gourami - Parosphromenus deissneri
- Lifalili Jewel Cichlid - Hemichromis lifalili
- Linam’s Pimelodella - Pimelodella linami
- Linke’s Dwarf Cichlid - Apistogramma linkei
- Lionhead Cichlid - Steatocranus casuarius
- Liver Catfish - Heteropneustes fossilis
- Livingstoni - Nimbochromis livingstonii
- Long Nosed Loach - Acantopsis dialuzona
- Long-Band Rasbora - Rasbora einthovenii
- Long-Finned African Tetra - Alestes longipinnis
- Long-Finned Barb - Barbus arulius
- Long-Finned Characin - Alestes chaperi
- Longnose Gar - Lepisosteus osseus
- Lyretail Killifish - Cape Lopez Lyretail Killifish
- Lyretail Lamprologus - Neolamprologus brichardi