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 R
- Rachow’s Darter Tetra - Characidium rachovii
- Rainbow Cichlid - Herotilapia multispinosa
- Rainbow Copella - Copella vilmae
- Rainbow Shark - Epalzeorhynchos frenatum
- Rainbow Tetra - Nematobrycon palmeri
- Ram Cichlid - Microgeophagus ramirezi
- Rathbun’s Bloodfin - Aphyocharax rathbuni
- Red Aphyosemion - Aphyosemion sjoestedti
- Red Base Tetra - Hemigrammus stictus
- Red Bellied Piranha - Serrasalmus nattereri
- Red Breast Acara - Laetacara dorsigera
- Red Breasted Flag Cichlid - Laetacara dorsiger
- Red Congo Tetra - Alestes imberi
- Red Devil - Amphilophus labiatus
- Red Eyed Tetra - Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae
- Red Fin Banded Pencilfish - Nannostomus erythrurus
- Red Fin Otocinclus - Parotocinclus maculicauda
- Red Fin Pickerel - Esox americanus americanus
- Red Fin Shark - Epalzeorhynchos frenatus
- Red Finned Cigar Shark - Leptobarbus hoevenii
- Red Finned Loach - Botia lecontei
- Red Finned Pike Cichlid - Crenicichla johanna
- Red Gill Congo Tetra - Phenacogrammus major
- Red Gourami - Colisa lalia
- Red Headed Cichlid - Cichlasoma synspilum
- Red Hook Silver Dollar - Myleus rubripinnis rubripinnis
- Red Hump Eartheater - Geophagus steindachneri
- Red Pacu - Piaractus brachypomus
- Red Piranha - Serrasalmus nattereri
- Red Rainbowfish - Glossolepis incisus
- Red Ram - Microgeophagus altispinosa
- Red Rasbora - Rasbora heteromorpha
- Red Salmon Rainbowfish - Glossolepis incisus
- Red Shark - Epalzeorhynchos frenatus
- Red Snakehead - Channa micropeltes
- Red Spot Callochromis - Callochromis pleurospilus
- Red Spot Silver Dollar - Metynnis luna
- Red Spotted Characin - Copeina guttata
- Red Spotted Cichlid - Cichlasoma bifasciatum
- Red Spotted Pyrrhulina - Pyrrhulina rachoviana
- Red Stripe Rasbora - Rasbora pauciperforata
- Red Striped Earth Eater - Geophagus surinamensis
- Red Striped Rainbowfish - Melanotaenia splendida rubrostriata
- Red Tailed Black Shark - Epalzeorhynchus bicolor
- Red Tailed Catfish - Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
- Red Tailed Goodeid - Xenotoca eiseni
- Red Tailed Hemiodopsis - Hemiodopsis microlepis
- Red Tailed Labeo - Epalzeorhynchus bicolor
- Red Tailed Rasbora - Rasbora borapetensis
- Red Tailed Shark - Epalzeorhynchos bicolor
- Red Terror - Cichlasoma festae
- Red Tipped Bleeding Heart Tetra - Hyphessobrycon pyrrhonotos
- Red Tuxedo Platy - Xiphophorus maculatus
- Red Wagtail Platy - Xiphophorus maculatus
- Red Zebra Mbuna - Pseudotropheus estherae
- Red Zebra - Metriaclima estherae
- Regan’s Julie - Julidochromis regani
- Regan’s Pike Cichlid - Crenicichla regani
- Rice Swamp Eel - Monopterus albus
- Ring Tailed Pike Cichlid - Crenicichla saxatilis
- Rio Grande Perch - Herichthys cyanoguttatum
- Rio Madeira Apistogramma - Apistogramma sp.
- Rio Meta Pimelodid - Pimelodella metae
- River Barb - Barbus barbus
- Roanoke Hog Sucker - Hypentelium roanokense
- Roloff’s Kribensis - Pelvicachromis roloffi
- Ropefish - Erpetoichthys calabaricus
- Rostratus - Fossorochromis rostratus
- Rosy Barb - Barbus conchonius
- Rosy Tetra - Hyphessobrycon bentosi rosaceus
- Rough Fish - Myxocyprinus asiaticus
- Royal Knifefish - Chitala blanci
- Royal Pleco - Panaque nigrolineatus
- Royal Whiptail Farlowella - Sturisoma panamense
- Ruby Barb - Puntius nigrofasciatus
- Ruby Shark - Epalzeorhynchos frenatus
- Rummynose Tetra - Hemigrammus bleheri
- Russian Bitterling - Acanthorhodeus asmussi
- Russian Weather Loach - Misgurnus bipartitusis
- Rusty Frogmouth Catfish - Chaca bankanensis