Country · Africa
Namibia
Only species with a profile on Seriously Fish are counted, whether native or introduced.
- Species
- 2
- Families
- 2
- Genera
- 2
- Found only here
- 0
- Photographed
- 1 of 2
Shares its fishes withspecies recorded in both

'Barbus' fasciolatusAfrican Banded Barb
Cyprinidae · Günther, 1868
The African banded barb, 'Barbus' fasciolatus, is a small cyprinid widely distributed in Central Southern Africa, from Angola to Zimbabwe. For many years it was imported as Barbus/Barbodes barilioides, now a junior synonym, and it is also called the blue banded or Angola barb. It has 10 to 15 blue-black vertical bars and lives in slow-flowing, heavily vegetated lake shallows, floodplain lagoons and rainforest streams.
Xiphophorus helleriiGreen Swordtail
Poeciliidae · Heckel, 1848
The green swordtail, Xiphophorus hellerii, is a livebearer native to southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Among the world's most recognisable aquarium fishes, it is ubiquitous in the trade, where selective breeding and hybridisation with X. maculatus and X. variatus have produced a bewildering array of ornamental forms. The name is often misspelled X. helleri.