title: Blackfish
text: # 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)
  