France

General data

  • Continent: Europe
  • Climates: Subtropical, Temperate, Continental, Mountain

Seas

Mediterranean Sea

North Sea

Tyrrhenian sea

Celtic Sea

Oceans

Atlantic Ocean

Rivers

Rhine

Moselle

Meuse (Maas)

Scheldt

Rhone

Charente

Adour

Dordogne

Loire

Seine

Somme

Garonne

Nivelle

Var

Tech

Argens

Vienne

Natural lakes

Lake Geneva

water.Sea channel_plural

English channel

Bays

Bay of Biscay

Gironde estuary

Canals

Canal between Champagne and Burgundy

Canal du Midi

Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish

European sea sturgeon

Atlantic sturgeon

Syngnathiformes - Pipefishes and Seahorses

Black-striped pipefish

Bluespotted cornetfish

Greater pipefish

Broadnosed pipefish

Longsnout seahorse

West Atlantic trumpetfish

Snake pipefish

Anguilliformes - Eels and morays

European eel

Mediterranean moray

European conger

Daggertooth pike conger

Starry moray

Chain moray

Leopard eel

Goldspotted eel

Sharptail eel

Green moray

Goldentail moray

Purplemouth moray

American eel

Spotted moray

Broadbanded moray

Moroniformes - Temperate basses

European bass

Spotted seabass

Striped bass

White perch

Mugiliformes - Mullets

Boxlip mullet

Thicklip grey mullet

Thinlip grey mullet

Leaping mullet

Flathead grey mullet

Golden grey mullet

South African mullet

Fantail mullet

Clupeiformes - Herrings

Twaite shad

Allis shad

European pilchard

European anchovy

European sprat

American gizzard shad

Alewife

American shad

Atlantic herring

Hickory shad

Bonga shad

West African ilisha

Skipjack shad

Atlantic sabretooth anchovy

Blueback shad

Perciformes - Perches

Bluefish

Comber

Painted comber

Brown comber

Dusky grouper

Damselfish

Goldblotch grouper

Malabar grouper

Bastard grunt

Swallowtail sea perch

Rubberlip grunt

Blacktail comber

White grouper

Mangrove red snapper

Red bandfish

Atlantic goliath grouper

Common snook

Black grouper

Red grouper

Gag grouper

Northern red snapper

Yellowtail snapper

Mangrove snapper

Cubera snapper

Yellowtail snapper

Lane snapper

White margate

Dog snapper

Mahogany snapper

Nassau grouper

Tiger grouper

Yellowmouth grouper

Coney

Graysby

Schoolmaster snapper

Black sea bass

Fat snook

Great northern tilefish

Southern tilefish

Giant African threadfin

Pigfish

Snowy grouper

Porkfish

Striped mojarra

Atlantic yellowstripe grunt

Smallmouth grunt

Caesar grunt

Bluestriped grunt

Sand tilefish

Warsaw grouper

Misty grouper

Yellowfin grouper

Comb grouper

Island grouper

Atlantic mutton hamlet

Paranthias furcifer

Twinspot bass

Lantern bass

Tobaccofish

Cochero

Mutton snapper

Gorean snapper

Brazilian snapper

White grunt

Butter hamlet

Indigo hamlet

Barred hamlet

Shy hamlet

Masked hamlet

Harlequin bass

Black hamlet

Chalk bass

Spanish flag

African moony

Biglip grunt

Bigeye grunt

African brown snapper

Canary damsel

Lesser African threadfin

Irish mojarra

Cottonwick grunt

French grunt

Black margate

Longfin damselfish

Dusky damselfish

Atlantic bigeye

Tomtate grunt

Vermilion snapper

Blackfin snapper

Yellow fin mojarra

Sand perch

Red hind

Tidewater mojarra

Flagfin mojarra

Bank sea bass

Sailor’s grunt

Rock sea bass

Spotfin jawfish

Silk snapper

Dusky jawfish

European perch

Zander

Ruffe

Rhone streber

Spariformes - Breams and porgies

Common two-banded sea bream

Sargo

Annular seabream

Sharpsnout seabream

Common dentex

Salema

Sand steenbras

Gilt-head bream

Saddled seabream

Common pandora

Bogue

Red porgy

Pink dentex

Blotched picarel

Axillary seabream

Zebra sea bream

Redbanded seabream

Black seabream

Blackspot seabream

Suez Canal Sillago

Atlantic tripletail

Littlehead porgy

Jolthead porgy

Saucereye porgy

Sheepshead

Scup

Pinfish

Moroccan white seabream

South American silver porgy

Banded seabream

Striped white seabream

Spottail seabream

Bermuda porgy

Cape Verde two-banded seabream

Roman seabream

Carangiformes - Jacks

Greater amberjack

Common dolphinfish

Atlantic horse mackerel

Pompano

Leerfish

Swordfish

Atlantic white marlin

Blue marlin

Atlantic sailfish

Mediterranean spearfish

Crevalle jack

Cobia

Mediterranean horse mackerel

False scad

Rainbow runner

Blue runner

White trevally

Indo-Pacific sailfish

Shortbill spearfish

Black jack

Bar jack

Yellowtail amberjack

Permit

Palometa

Senegal jack

Shortfin pompano

Lookdown

Longfin yellowtail

Guinean amberjack

Lesser amberjack

Atlantic bumper

Leatherjacket

Yellow jack

Florida pompano

Bigeye scad

Horse-eye jack

Live sharksucker

Beloniformes - Needlefishes

Garfish

Agujon Needlefish

Flat needlefish

Ballyhoo halfbeak

Redfin needlefish

Labriformes - Wrasses

Mediterranean rainbow wrasse

Cuckoo wrasse

Ornate wrasse

Ocellated wrasse

Axillary wrasse

East Atlantic peacock wrasse

Five-spotted wrasse

Pointed-snout wrasse

Mediterranean parrotfish

Brown wrasse

Green wrasse

Corkwing wrasse

Goldsinny wrasse

Black-tailed wrasse

Pearly razorfish

Grey wrasse

Baillon’s wrasse

Scale-rayed wrasse

Sideburn Wrasse

Cunner

Blue parrotfish

Redfin parrotfish

Stoplight parrotfish

Puddingwife wrasse

Redband parrotfish

Midnight parrotfish

Bluehead wrasse

Ballan wrasse

Yellowhead wrasse

Spotfin hogfish

Tautog

Rosy razorfish

Barred hogfish

Slippery dick

Princess parrotfish

Rock cook

Hogfish

Spanish hogfish

Redtail parrotfish

Yellowcheek wrasse

Striped parrotfish

Blackear wrasse

Surge wrasse

Scombriformes - Mackerels

Atlantic mackerel

Atlantic chub mackerel

Atlantic bonito

Bullet tuna

Little tunny

Atlantic bluefin tuna

Wahoo

Narrow-barred spanish mackerel

Albacore

Yellowfin tuna

King mackerel

Atlantic Spanish mackerel

Bigeye tuna

Silver scabbardfish

Blackfin tuna

Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes

Red scorpionfish

Small red scorpionfish

Madeira rockfish

Black scorpionfish

Devil firefish

Streaked gurnard

Tub gurnard

Longspined bullhead

Grey gurnard

Bartail flathead

Red lionfish

Red gurnard

Atlantic wolffish

Fourhorn sculpin

Shorthorn sculpin

Striped seasnail

Spotted wolffish

Northern wolffish

Bandtail searobin

Northern searobin

Bluewing searobin

Leopard searobin

Bighead searobin

Bluespotted searobin

Rock gunnel

Lumpsucker

Golden redfish

Eelpout

Montagu's seasnail

Yarrell's blenny

Striped searobin

Atlantic hookear sculpin

Atlantic poacher

Moustache sculpin

Norway redfish

European bullhead

West european bullhead

Rhine sculpin

Adour bullhead

Dordogne bullhead

Gadiformes - Cods

European hake

Whiting

Poor cod

Silvery pout

Pouting

Forkbeard

Greater forkbeard

Blue ling

Spanish ling

Shore rockling

Atlantic cod

Common ling

Atlantic pollock

Saithe

Haddock

Longfin hake

Cusk

Ghostly grenadier

Roundnose grenadier

Abyssal grenadier

Shortbeard grenadier

Spotted codling

Southern codling

Gulf hake

Red hake

Atlantic tomcod

Tadpole fish

Fivebeard rockling

Norway pout

Common mora

Blue whiting

Burbot

Mulliformes - Goatfishes

Red mullet

Striped red mullet

Red Sea goatfish

Red goatfish

Yellow goatfish

Gobiiformes - Gobies

Giant goby

Black goby

Red-mouthed goby

Rock goby

Golden goby

Yellow-headed goby

Bucchich's goby

Incognito goby

Caucasian dwarf goby

Sand goby

Common goby

Two-spotted goby

Leopard-spotted goby

Fries's goby

Transparent goby

Chameleon goby

Frillfin goby

Couch's goby

Jeffrey’s goby

Grass goby

Atlantic mudskipper

Lozano’s goby

Madeira Goby

Painted goby

Naked goby

Bigmouth sleeper

Fat sleeper

Crested goby

Bighead goby

Monkey goby

Western tubenose goby

Istiophoriformes - Barracudas

European barracuda

Yellowmouth Barracuda

Yellowtail barracuda

Yellowstripe barracuda

Great barracuda

Guinean barracuda

Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes

European plaice

Common sole

Turbot

Wide-eyed flounder

Senegalese sole

Imperial scaldfish

Mediterranean scaldfish

Brill

European flounder

Atlantic halibut

Winter flounder

Summer flounder

Gulf flounder

Plate fish

Common dab

Common topknot

Lemon sole

Channel flounder

Southern flounder

American plaice

Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes

Greater weever

Atlantic stargazer

Lesser weever

Lesser sand eel

Pacific sand lance

Great sandeel

Raitt's Sand Lance

Aulopiformes - Grinners

Atlantic lizardfish

Inshore lizardfish

Sand diver

Diamond lizardfish

Blenniiformes - Blennies

Tompot blenny

Mystery blenny

Rusty blenny

Tentacled blenny

Zvonimir's blenny

Peacock blenny

Sphinx blenny

Butterfly blenny

Basilisk Blenny

Longstriped blenny

Adriatic blenny

Ringneck blenny

Montagu’s blenny

Red-black triplefin

Molly miller

Gurnard blenny

Shanny

Saddled blenny

Rock-pool blenny

Hairy blenny

Feather blenny

Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks

Great white shark

Sand tiger shark

Porbeagle

Shortfin mako

Basking shark

Smalltooth sand tiger

Thresher

Bigeye thresher

Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks

Blue shark

Lesser spotted dogfish

Nursehound

Blackmouth catshark

Tope shark

Blacktip reef shark

Starry smooth-hound

Common smooth-hound

Smooth hammerhead

Bull Shark

Lemon shark

Whitetip reef shark

Bonnethead shark

Great hammerhead

Striped catshark

Leopard catshark

Galapagos shark

Silky shark

Milk shark

Blacknose shark

Dusky smooth-hound

Finetooth shark

Scalloped hammerhead

Blacktip shark

Dark shyshark

Atlantic sharpnose shark

Orectolobiformes - Carpet shark

Whale shark

Nurse shark

Squatiniformes - Angelsharks

Angelshark

Smoothback angelshark

Rhinopristiformes - Shovelnose rays

Common guitarfish

Chola guitarfish

Smalltooth sawfish

Common sawfish

Zeiformes - Dories

John Dory

Tetraodontiformes - Puffers and filefishes

Grey triggerfish

Yellow boxfish

Yellowspotted puffer

Ocean sunfish

White-spotted puffer

Immaculate puffer

Prickly puffer

Macaronesian sharpnose-puffer

Bandtail puffer

Guinean puffer

American whitespotted filefish

Scrawled filefish

Long-spine porcupinefish

Spot-fin porcupinefish

Queen triggerfish

Striped burrfish

Southern puffer

Green puffer

Planehead filefish

Smooth puffer

Unicorn leatherjacket filefish

Scrawled cowfish

Checkered puffer

Dactylopteriformes - Flying gurnards

Flying gurnard

Lampriformes - Lamprids

Giant oarfish

Mediterranean dealfish

North Atlantic opah

Blackflash ribbonfish

Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks

Spiny dogfish

Angular roughshark

Greenland shark

Velvet belly lanternshark

Lophiiformes - Anglerfishes

European anglerfish

Blackbellied anglerfish

Striated frogfish

American anglerfish

Acanthuriformes - Surgeonfishes

Shi drum

Meagre

Brown meagre

Canary drum

Dusky spinefoot

Emperor angelfish

Marbled spinefoot

Doctorfish

Weakfish

Black drum

Red drum

Atlantic croaker

Southern kingfish

Northern kingfish

Spotted weakfish

Spot croaker

Queen angelfish

French angelfish

Atlantic spadefish

Banded drum

Foureye butterflyfish

Cassava drum

African sicklefish

West African spadefish

Bobo croaker

Rock beauty

Gray angelfish

Bermuda blue angelfish

Atlantic Sergeant Major

Gulf kingcroaker

High-hat

Sand weakfish

Goldtail croaker

Rajiformes - Skates and rays

Common skate

Blonde ray

Spotted ray

Longnosed skate

Undulate ray

Thornback ray

Brown ray

Mediterranean starry ray

Thorny skate

Clearnose skate

Small-eyed ray

Myliobatiformes - Stingrays

Common stingray

Marbled stingray

Common eagle ray

Round fantail stingray

Brown stingray

Southern stingray

Giant manta ray

Roughtail stingray

Daisy stingray

Cownose ray

Bull ray

Short-tail stingray

Yellow stingray

Bluntnose stingray

Cyprinodontiformes - Toothcarps

Mediterranean banded killifish

Mummichog

Striped killifish

Goldspotted killifish

Marsh killifish

Gulf killifish

Longnose killifish

Diamond killifish

Argentiniformes - Marine smelts

Argentine

Myctophiformes - Lanternfishes

Spotted lanternfish

Kurtiformes - Nurseryfishes & Cardinalfishes

Mediterranean cardinalfish

Pharaoh cardinalfish

Twospot cardinalfish

Acropomatiformes - Oceanic basses

Atlantic wreckfish

Indian sweeper

Blackmouth ocean bass

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Brassy chub

Galjoen

Bermuda sea chub

Two-tone fingerfin

Redfingers

Barred fingerfin

Pumpkinseed

Rock bass

Largemouth bass

Atheriniformes - Silversides

Sand smelt

Big-scale sand smelt

Red Sea Hardyhead Silverside

Inland silverside

Hardhead silverside

Batrachoidiformes - Toadfishes

Lusitanian toadfish

Oyster toadfish

Gulf toadfish

Callionymiformes - Dragonets

Common dragonet

Reticulated dragonet

Spotted dragonet

Risso’s dragonet

Gobiesociformes - Clingfishes

Connemarra clingfish

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Brown trout

Arctic char

Brook trout

Atlantic salmon

Chinook salmon

Rainbow trout

Grayling

Maraena Whitefish

Rhone trout

Torpediniformes - Electric rays

Marbled electric ray

Common torpedo

Osmeriformes - Smelts

European smelt

Elopiformes - Tarpons and tenpounders

Atlantic tarpon

Ladyfish

Chimaeriformes - Chimaeras

Rabbit fish

Albuliformes - Bonefishes

Bonefish

Hexanchiformes - Six-gill sharks

Bluntnose sixgill shark

Broadnose sevengill shark

Myxiniformes - Hagfishes

Atlantic hagfish

Sixgill hagfish

Holocentriformes - Squirrelfishes

Longjaw squirrelfish

Squirrelfish

Longspine squirrelfish

Siluriformes - Catfishes

Gafftopsail catfish

Hardhead sea catfish

Smoothmouth sea catfish

Coco sea catfish

Wels catfish

Black bullhead

Gasterosteiformes - Sticklebacks

Blackspotted stickleback

Sea stickleback

Ninespine stickleback

Three-spined stickleback

Notacanthiformes - Spiny eels

Snub-nosed spiny eel

Saccopharyngiformes - Swallowers and Gulpers

Pelican eel

Gonorynchiformes - Milkfishes

Beaked salmon

Stylephoriformes - Tube-eyes

Tube-eye

Beryciformes - Sawbellies

Alfonsino

Ophidiiformes - Cusk-eels

Pudgy cuskeel

Brunswig's Cusk-eel

Bearded brotula

Cypriniformes - Carps

Crucian carp

Prussian carp

Common barbel

Chub

Common carp

Weatherfish

Tench

Stone loach

Bream

White-eye bream

Silver bream

Common nase

Schneider

Bleak

Rudd

Roach

Moderlieschen

Dace

Ide

Asp

Common minnow

Souffia

Grass carp

Bighead carp

Topmouth gudgeon

Italian rudd

European gudgeon

European spined loach

Fathead minnow

Northern whitefin gudgeon

Goldfish

Italian spined loach

Mediterranean barbel

South-west European nase

Pyrenean Stone Loach

Languedoc Gudgeon

Bearn beaked dace

Beaked dace

Languedoc Minnow

Esociformes - Pikes

Northern pike

Eastern mudminnow

Aquitanian pike

Petromyzontiformes - Lampreys

Brook lamprey

European river lamprey

Sea lamprey

Mitchell

Sakura

Delalande

Sensas

La Sirene X21

Illex

Garbolino

Sert

Igor Pagac

Rive

VMC

Mepps