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 O
- Obese Synodontis - Synodontis obesus
- Obliquidens Hap - Haplochromis obliquidens
- Obscure Snakehead - Parachanna obscura
- Ocellated Freshwater Stingray - Potamotrygon motoro
- Ocellated Laprologus - Lamprologus ocellatus
- Ocellated Loach - Acanthocobitis urophthalmus
- Ocellated Shell-Dweller - Neolamprologus kungweensis
- Ocellated Synodontis - Synodontis ocellifer
- Odynea Pimelodid Catfish - Pimelodella chagresi odynea
- One-Gilled Swamp Eel - Ophisternon bengalense
- One-Lined Pencilfish - Nannobrycon unifasciatus
- One-Spot Synodontis - Synodontis notatus
- Opaline Gourami - Trichogaster trichopterus
- Orange Chromide - Etroplus maculatus
- Orange-Finned Loach - Botia modesta
- Orange-Lined Cichlid - Melanochromis joanjohnsonae
- Oriental Snakehead - Channa orientalis
- Ornate Bichir - Polypterus ornatipinnis
- Ornate Ctenopoma - Ctenopoma ansorgii
- Ornate Fin Nipper - Ichthyborus ornatus
- Ornate Pimelodus - Pimelodus ornatus
- Oscar - Astronotus ocellatus
- Otocinclus - Otocinclus affinis
- Oxeye Herring - Megalops cyprinoldes
- Ozola Barb - Barilius barna