Living National Treasures: Thailand

Checklists of  Endemics

Mammal Species 5

Bird Species 2

Reptile Species 47

Amphibian Species 9

Freshwater Fish Species 81

Marine Fish Species 16

Vertebrate Genera 4

Swallowtail & Milkweed Butterfly Species 0

Vascular Plant Genera 14

Families & Orders 0


Taxonomic Sources & Caveats

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 Checklist of Endemic Marine Fish Species

This list of marine fish species found exclusively in Thailand is based on the taxonomy used in FishBase 2004 (2004). For further details on possible inaccuracies in the list see Sources & Caveats.

FishBase 2004: a global information system on fishes. DVD. WorldFish Center - Philippine Office, Los Banos, Philippines.  Published in May 2004.

The current version of this electronic database is accessible here.

OC = a FishBase occurrence record suggests a specimen from another country outside normal stated range (these vary widely in reliability from obvious misidentifications to being almost certainly correct)

Xenaploactis cautes (Aploactinidae)

Oxyeleotris siamensis OC (Eleotridae)

Gerres chrysops (Gerreidae) Gold Sheen Silver-biddy

Gerres infasciatus (Gerreidae) Nonbanded Whipfin Mojarra

Cryptocentrus callopterus (Gobiidae)

Cryptocentrus leonis (Gobiidae)

Cryptocentrus wehrlei (Gobiidae)

Plectorhinchus macrospilus (Haemulidae)

Pomadasys andamanensis (Haemulidae)

Leiognathus pan (Leiognathidae)

Allips concolor (Ophichthidae)

Opistognathus macrolepis OC (Opistognathidae)

Polydactylus siamensis (Polynemidae)

Pomacentrus polyspinus (Pomacentridae) Thai Damsel

Soleichthys siammakuti (Soleidae)

Saurida isarankurai OC (Synodontidae) Shortjaw Saury


Additional endemic marine fish species that were not included in FishBase 2004 are given below.  This list is primarily based on information from the 13 March 2009 version of the Catalog of Fishes database (current version here) and includes species described through 2008.  In addition to the 16 endemic marine fish species listed above, these additional 5 species total 21 species of marine fishes known solely from Thailand.

Acropoma argentistigma (Acropomatidae) 2002

Myersina adonis (Gobiidae) 2006

Trimma fucatum (Gobiidae) Harlot Pygmy Goby   2007

Aseraggodes satapoomini (Soleidae) 2007

Helcogramma lacuna (Tripterygiidae) 2003