Blackfish
# Blackfish

Blackfish is a common name for various species of fishes and cetaceans, including:

## Fish

* Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis), an esocid from Alaska, Siberia, and the Bering Sea islands
* Black fish (Carassioides acuminatus), a cyprinid from China and Vietnam
* Black ruff (Centrolophus niger)
* Black sea bass (Centropristis striata)
* Cornish blackfish (Schedophilus medusophagus)
* Gadopsis, two Australian freshwater fish:
   * River blackfish (G. marmoratus)
   * Two-spined blackfish (G. bispinosus)
* Galjoen (Dichistius capensis)
* Imperial blackfish (Schedophilus ovalis)
* Japanese black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegelii), a large sea bream often cultivated in aquaculture
* Parore (Girella tricuspidata)
* Sacramento blackfish (Orthodon microlepidotus)
* Tautog (Tautoga onitis)

## Dolphins

* Pilot whales (Globicephala)
* Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra)
* False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
* Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata)
