This is a list of species of fish found in the rivers and lakes of the Korean Peninsula.

Lampreys

1. Eudontomyzon morii (Berg, 1931) – Korean lamprey ( 칠성말배꼽)
2. Lethenteron camtschaticum ( Tilesius, 1811) – Arctic lamprey ( 칠성장어)
3. Lethenteron reissneri (Dybowski, 1869) – Far Eastern brook lamprey ( 다묵장어)

Sturgeons and paddlefish

1. Acipenser dabryanus (Dumeril, 1868) – Yangtze sturgeon ( 칼상어)
2. Acipenser medirostris (Ayres, 1854) – green sturgeon ( 용상어)
3. Acipenser sinensis (Gray, 1834) – Chinese sturgeon ( 철갑상어)

Eels

1. Anguilla japonica (Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese eel ( 뱀장어)
2. Anguilla marmorata (Quoy and Gaiamard, 1824) – marbled eel ( 무태장어)

Herring

1. Coilia mystus ( Linnaeus, 1758) – tapertail anchovy ( 싱어)
2. Coilia nasus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese grenadier anchovy ( 웅어)
3. Konosirus punctatus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – dotted gizzard shad ( 전어)
4. Sardinella zunasi ( Bleeker, 1854) – Japanese sardinella ( 밴댕이)

Carp, minnows and loaches

1. Abbottina rivularis (Basilewsky, 1855) – Chinese false gudgeon ( 버들매치)
2. Abbottina springeri (Banarescu et Nalbant, 1973) ( 왜매치)
3. Acanthorhodeus chankaensis ( Dybowski, 1872) – Khanka spiny bitterling ( 가시납지리)
4. Acanthorhodeus macropterus Bleeker, 1871 ( 큰납지리)
5. Acheilognathus hondae (Jordan et Metz, 1913) ( 서호납줄갱이)
6. Acheilognathus koreensis (Kim et Kim, 1990) ( 칼납자루)
7. Acheilognathus majusculus (Kim et Yang, 1998) ( 큰줄납자루)
8. Acheilognathus rhombeus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) ( 납지리)
9. Acheilognathus signifer (Berg, 1907) ( 묵납자루)
10. Acheilognathus somjinensis (Kim et Kim, 1991) ( 임실납자루)
11. Acheilognathus yamatsutae (Mori, 1928) ( 줄납자루)
12. Aphyocypris chinensis (Günther, 1868) – Chinese bleak ( 왜몰개)
13. Barbatula nuda (Bleeker, 1865) ( 대륙종개)
14. Barbatula toni (Dybowski, 1869) – bearded stone loach ( 종개)
15. Carassius carassius (Linnaeus, 1758) – crucian carp ( 붕어)
16. Carassius cuvieri (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese crucian carp ( 떡붕어)
17. Chanodichthys erythropterus (Basilewsky, 1855) – redfin culter ( 강준치)
18. Cobitis lutheri (Rendahl, 1935) – Luther's spiny loach ( 점줄종개)
19. Cobitis pacifica (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 1999) ( 북방종개)
20. Cobitis sinensis (Sauvage et Dabryi, 1874) – Siberian spiny loach ( 기름종개)
21. Cobitis tetralineata (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 1999) ( 줄종개)
22. Coreius heterodon (Bleeker, 1865) – brass gudgeon ( 게톱치)
23. Coreoleuciscus splendidus (Mori, 1935) – Korean splendid dace ( 쉬리)
24. Ctenopharyngodon idella (Cuvier et Valenciennes) – grass carp ( 초어)
25. Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus, 1758) – common carp ( 잉어)
26. Gnathopogon strigatus (Regan, 1908) – striped false gudgeon ( 줄몰개)
27. Gobiobotia brevibarba (Mori, 1935) ( 돌상어)
28. Gobiobotia macrocephala (Mori, 1935) ( 꾸구리)
29. Gobiobotia naktongensis (Mori, 1935) ( 흰수마자)
30. Gobio cynocephalus (Dybowski, 1869) – Siberian gudgeon ( 모샘치)
31. Hemibarbus labeo (Pallas, 1707) – steed barbel ( 누치)
32. Hemibarbus longirostris (Regan, 1908) – long-nosed barbel ( 참마자)
33. Hemibarbus mylodon (Berg, 1907) – spotted barbel ( 어름치)
34. Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855) – sharpbelly ( 살치)
35. Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Cuvier et Valenciennes) – silver carp ( 백련어)
36. Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson, 1845) – bighead carp ( 대두어)
37. Iksookimia choii (Kim et Son, 1984) – Miho spine loach ( 미호종개)
38. Iksookimia koreensis (Kim, 1975) – Korean spine loach ( 참종개)
39. Iksookimia longicorpa (Kim, Choi, et Nalbant, 1976) ( 왕종개)
40. Iksookimia pumila (Kim et Lee, 1987) – Puan spine loach ( 부안종개)
41. Iksookimia yongdokensis (Kim et Park, 1997) ( 동방종개)
42. Kichulchoia brevifasciata (Kim et Lee, 1996) – dwarf loach ( 좀수수치)
43. Koreocobitis naktongensis (Kim, Park, et Nalbant, 2000) – Nakdong nose loach ( 얼룩새코미꾸리)
44. Koreocobitis rotundicaudata (Wakiya et Mori, 1929) – white nose loach ( 새코미꾸리)
45. Ladislavia taczanowskii (Dybowski, 1869) – Tachanovsky's gudgeon ( 새미)
46. Lefua costata (Kessler, 1876) – eightbarbel loach ( 쌀미꾸리)
47. Leuciscus waleckii (Dybowski, 1869) – Amur ide ( 야레)
48. Mesogobio lachneri (Banarescu et Nalbant, 1973) ( 압록자그사니)
49. Mesogobio tumensis (Chang, 1979) ( 두만강자그사니)
50. Microphysogobio jeoni (Kim et Yang, 1999) ( 됭경모치)
51. Microphysogobio koreensis (Mori, 1935) ( 모래주사)
52. Microphysogobio longidorsalis (Mori, 1935) ( 배가사리)
53. Microphysogobio rapidus (Chae et Yang, 1999) ( 여울마자)
54. Microphysogobio yaluensis (Mori, 1928) ( 돌마자)
55. Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor, 1842) – pond loach ( 미꾸리)
56. Misgurnus mizolepis (Günther, 1888) – Chinese fine-scaled loach ( 미꾸라지)
57. Nipponocypris temminckii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) – dark chub ( 갈겨니)
58. Niwaella multifasciata (Wakiya et Mori, 1929) ( 수수미꾸리)
59. Opsariichthys uncirostris (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) – three-lips ( 끄리)
60. Phoxinus kumgangensis (Kim, 1980) – Kumgang fat minnow ( 금강모치)
61. Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758) – common minnow ( 연준모치)
62. Phoxinus semotilus (Jordan & Starks, 1905) ( 버들가지)
63. Pseudogobio esocinus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) ( 모래무지)
64. Pseudopungtungia nigra (Mori, 1935) – black shiner ( 감돌고기)
65. Pseudopungtungia tenuicorpus (Jeon et Choi, 1980) – slender shiner ( 가는돌고기)
66. Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – stone moroko ( 참붕어)
67. Pungtungia herzi (Herzenstein, 1892) – striped shiner ( 돌고기)
68. Rhynchocypris oxycephalus (Sauvage et Darby, 1874) – Chinese minnow ( 버들치)
69. Rhynchocypris percnurus (Pallas, 1811) – swamp minnow ( 동버들개)
70. Rhynchocypris steindachneri (Dybowski, 1869) – Amur minnow ( 버들개)
71. Rhodeus ocellatus (Kner, 1867) – rosy bitterling ( 흰줄납줄개)
72. Rhodeus pseudosericeus (Arai, Jeon, et Ueda) ( 한강납줄개)
73. Rhodeus notatus (Nichols, 1929) ( 떡납줄갱이)
74. Rhodeus uyekii (Mori, 1935) ( 각시붕어)
75. Sarcocheilichthys czerskii (Berg, 1914) – Chersky's thicklip gudgeon ( 북방중고기)
76. Sarcocheilichthys nigripinnis (Jordan et Hubbs, 1925) – rainbow gudgeon ( 중고기)
77. Sarcocheilichthys variegatus (Mori, 1927) ( 참중고기)
78. Saurogobio dabryi (Bleeker, 1871) – Chinese lizard gudgeon ( 두우쟁이)
79. Squalidus chankaensis Dybowski, 1872 ( 참몰개)
80. Squalidus gracilis (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) ( 긴몰개)
81. Squalidus japonicus (Sauvage, 1883) ( 몰개)
82. Squalidus multimaculatus (Hosoya et Jeon, 1984) – spotted-barbel gudgeon ( 점몰개)
83. Squaliobarbus curriculus (Richardson, 1846) – barbel chub ( 눈불개)
84. Tanakia lanceolata (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) ( 납자루)
85. Tribolodon brandtii (Dybowski, 1872) – Pacific redfin ( 대황어)
86. Tribolodon hakonensis (Günther, 1880) – sea rundace ( 황어)
87. Zacco platypus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – pale chub ( 피라미)

Catfish

1. Ictalurus punctatus ( Rafinesque, 1818) – channel catfish ( 찬넬동자개)
2. Leiocassis longirostris (Günther, 1864) – Chinese longsnout catfish ( 종어)
3. Liobagrus andersoni (Regan, 1908) ( 퉁가리)
4. Liobagrus mediadiposalis (Mori, 1936) – south torrent catfish ( 자가사리)
5. Liobagrus obesus (Son, Kim, et Choo, 1987) – bullhead torrent catfish ( 퉁사리)
6. Pelteobagrus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872) – Ussurian bullhead ( 대농갱이)
7. Pseudobagrus brevicorpus (Mori, 1936) – Korean stumpy bullhead ( 꼬치동자개)
8. Pseudobagrus koreanus (Uchida, 1990) – black bullhead ( 눈동자개)
9. Silurus asotus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Amur catfish ( 메기)
10. Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936) – slender catfish ( 미유기)
11. Tachysurus fulvidraco (Richardson, 1846) – yellow catfish ( 동자개)
12. Tachysurus nitidus (Sauvage et Dabryi, 1874) ( 밀자개)

Smelt

1. Hypomesus nipponensis (McAllister, 1963) – wakasagi ( 빙어)
2. Neosalanx anderssoni (Rendahl, 1923) – Andersson's icefish ( 도화뱅어)
3. Neosalanx hubbsi (Wakiya et Takahashi, 1937) ( 실뱅어)
4. Neosalanx jordani (Wakiya et Takahashi, 1937) ( 젓뱅어)
5. Plecoglossus altivelis (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – ayu ( 은어)
6. Protosalanx chinensis (Basilewsky, 1855) ( 붕퉁뱅어)
7. Salangichthys microdon (Bleeker, 1860) – Japanese icefish ( 뱅어)
8. Salanx ariakensis (Kishinouye, 1901) – Ariake icefish ( 국수뱅어)
9. Salanx prognathus (Regan, 1908) ( 벚꽃뱅어)

Salmonids

1. Brachymystax lenok (Pallas, 1773) – lenok ( 열목어)
2. Hucho ishikawae (Mori, 1928) – Korean taimen ( 자치)
3. Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) – pink salmon ( 곱사연어)
4. Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum, 1792) – chum salmon ( 연어)
5. Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum, 1792) – coho salmon ( 은연어)
6. Oncorhynchus masou (Brevoort, 1856) – masu salmon ( 송어)
7. Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792) – rainbow trout ( 무지개송어)
8. Salvelinus leucomaenis (Pallas, 1811) – white-spotted char ( 홍송어)
9. Salvelinus malma (Walbaum, 1792) – Dolly Varden ( 곤들매기)
10. Thymallus yaluensis (Mori, 1928) ( 사루기)

Cod

1. Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758) – burbot ( 모오캐)

Mullets

1. Liza affinis (Günther, 1861) – eastern keelback mullet ( 등줄숭어)
2. Liza haematocheilus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – haarder ( 가숭어)
3. Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) – flathead mullet ( 숭어)

Perch-like fish

1. Acanthogobius elongatus (Ni et Wu, 1985) ( 왜풀망둑)
2. Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – yellowfin goby ( 문절망둑)
3. Acanthogobius lactipes (Hilgendorf, 1879) ( 흰발망둑)
4. Acanthogobius luridus (Ni et Wu, 1985) ( 비늘흰발망둑)
5. Acentrogobius pellidebilis (Lee et Kim, 1992) ( 점줄망둑)
6. Acentrogobius pflaumii (Bleeker, 1853) – striped sand goby ( 줄망둑)
7. Bathygobius fuscus (Ruppel, 1830) – dusky frillgoby ( 무늬망둑)

1. Boleophthalmus pectinirostris (Linnaeus, 1758) – blue-spotted mudskipper ( 짱뚱어)
2. Channa argus (Cantor, 1842) – northern snakehead ( 가물치)
3. Coreoperca herzi (Herzenstein, 1896) – Korean perch ( 꺽지)
4. Coreoperca kawamebari (Temminck et Schlegel, 1842) – Japanese aucha perch ( 꺽저기)
5. Eleotris oxycephala (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – spined sleeper ( 구굴무치)
6. Favonigobius gymnauchen (Bleeker, 1860) – sharp-nosed sand goby ( 날개망둑)
7. Gymnogobius castaneus (O'Shaughnessy, 1875) – biringo ( 날망둑)
8. Gymnogobius macrognathos (Bleeker, 1860) - ( 왜꾹저구)
9. Gymnogobius urotaenia (Hilgendorf, 1879) ( 꾹저구)
10. Lateolabrax japonicus (Cuvier, 1828) – suzuki ( 농어)
11. Lepomis macrochirus (Rafinesque, 1819) – bluegill ( 블루길)
12. Leucopsarion petersii (Hilgendorf, 1880) – ice goby ( 서백어)
13. Luciogobius guttatus (Gill, 1859) – flat-headed goby ( 미끈망둑)
14. Macropodus ocellatus (Cantor, 1842) – roundtail paradisefish ( 버들붕어)
15. Micropercops swinhonis (Gunther, 1873) ( 좀구굴치)
16. Micropterus salmoides ( Lacépède, 1802) – largemouth bass ( 베스)
17. Mugilogobius abei (Jordan et Snyder, 1901) – Abe's mangrove goby ( 모치망둑)
18. Mugilogobius fontinalis (Jordan et Seale, 1906) ( 제주모치망둑)
19. Nuchequula nuchalis (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – spotnape ponyfish ( 주둥치)
20. Odontamblyopus lacepedii (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) ( 개소겡)
21. Odontobutis interrupta (Iwata et Jeon, 1985) ( 얼록동사리)
22. Odontobutis obscura (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – donko ( 남방동사리)
23. Odontobutis platycephala (Iwata et Jeon, 1985) ( 동사리)
24. Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Nile tilapia ( 나일틸라피아)
25. Paratrypauchen microcephalus (Bleeker, 1860) – comb goby ( 빨갱이)
26. Parioglossus dotui (Tomiyama, 1958) ( 꼬마청황)
27. Periopthalmus magnuspinnatus (Lee, Choi, et Ryu, 1995) ( 큰볏말뚝망둥어)
28. Periophthalmus modestus (Cantor, 1842) – Shuttles hoppfish ( 말뚝망둥어)
29. Pseudogobius masago (Tomiyama, 1936) ( 애기망둑)
30. Repomucenus olidus (Gunther, 1873) ( 강주걱양태)
31. Rhinogobius brunneus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – Amur goby ( 밀어)
32. Rhinogobius giurinus (Rutter, 1897) – barcheek goby ( 갈문망둑)
33. Sicyopterus japonicus (Tanaka, 1909) – grazing goby ( 열동갈문절)
34. Siniperca scherzeri (Steindachner, 1892) – golden mandarin fish ( 쏘가리)
35. Synechogobius hasta (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – javelin goby ( 풀망둑)
36. Tridentiger bifasciatus (Steindachner, 1881) – Shimofuri goby ( 민물두줄망둑)
37. Tridentiger brevispinis (Katsuyama, Arai, et Nakamura, 1972) ( 민물검정망둑)
38. Tridentiger nudicervicus (Tomiyama, 1934) – bare-naped goby ( 황줄망둑)
39. Tridentiger obscurus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – dusky tripletooth goby ( 검정망둑)

Needlefish and ricefish

1. Hyporhamphus intermedius (Cantor, 1842) – Asian pencil halfbeak ( 줄공치)
2. Hyporhamphus sajori (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – Japanese halfbeak ( 학공치)
3. Oryzias latipes (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – Japanese rice fish ( 송사리)
4. Oryzias sinensis (Chen, Uwa, et Chu, 1989) – Chinese rice fish ( 대륙송사리)

Sticklebacks

1. Gasterosteus aculeatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – three-spined stickleback ( 큰가시고기)
2. Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus, 1758) – ninespine stickleback ( 청가시고기)
3. Pungitius sinensis (Guichenot, 1869) – Amur stickleback ( 가시고기)
4. Pungitius tymensis (Nikolsky, 1889) – Sakhalin stickleback ( 두만가시고기)
5. Syngnathus schlegeli (Kaup, 1856) – seaweed pipefish ( 실고기)

Swamp eels

1. Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793) – rice eel ( 드렁허리)

Scorpionfish, flatheads and sculpins

1. Cottus czerskii (Berg, 1913) – Chersky's sculpin ( 참둑중개)
2. Cottus hangiongensis (Mori, 1930) ( 한둑중개)
3. Cottus poecilopus (Heckel, 1837) – alpine bullhead ( 둑중개)
4. Myoxocephalus stelleri ( Tilesius, 1811) – Steller's sculpin ( 개구리꺽정이)
5. Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758) – bartail flathead ( 양태)
6. Sebastes schlegeli (Hilgendorf, 1880) – Korean rockfish ( 조피볼락)
7. Trachidermus fasciatus (Heckel, 1837) – roughskin sculpin ( 꺽정이)

Flatfish

1. Cynoglossus semilaevis (Gunther, 1873) – tongue sole ( 박대)
2. Kareius bicoloratus (Basilewsky, 1855) – stone flounder ( 돌가자미)
3. Platichthys stellatus (Pallas, 1788) – starry flounder ( 강도다리)
4. Pleuronichthys cornutus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) – ridged-eye flounder ( 도다리)

Puffers

1. Takifugu niphobles (Jordan et Snyder, 1901) – grass puffer ( 복섬)
2. Takifugu obscurus (Abe, 1949) – obscure pufferfish ( 황복)
3. Takifugu poecilonotus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – finepatterned puffer ( 흰점복)
4. Takifugu rubripes (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – Japanese pufferfish ( 자주복)
5. Takifugu vermicularis (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – purple puffer ( 매리복)
6. Takifugu xanthopterus (Temminck et Schlegel, 1850) – yellowfin pufferfish ( 까치복)

See also

• List of amphibians of Korea
• List of reptiles of Korea
• List of mammals of Korea
• List of passerine birds of Korea
• List of non-passerine birds of Korea

References

• Kim, Ik-su (김익수); Park Jong-yeong (박종영) (2002). 한국의 민물고기 [Hangugui minmulgogi / Fish of Korea]. Seoul: Kyo-Hak Publishing. ISBN  89-09-07175-3.