Freshwater Fish Families is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers fish families whose members live in fresh water, such as the sunfishes and black basses of North America, the gouramis of Asia, the airbreathing catfishes and the freshwater eels, which spend their adult lives in rivers and lakes and migrate to the ocean to spawn. It excludes marine families and the carp and minnow families, which have their own group.
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Anguillidae - Wikipedia
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The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels.
Wikipedia: Centrarchidae
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Centrarchidae, better known as sunfishes or centrarchids, is a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Centrarchiformes, native only to North America.
Wikipedia: Airbreathing catfish
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Airbreathing catfish comprise the family Clariidae of the order Siluriformes. This family is made up of seventeen genera and about 123 species, all of which inhabit freshwater .
Osphronemidae - Wikipedia
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Gouramis, or gouramies , are a group of freshwater anabantiform fish that comprise the family Osphronemidae.
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