Description: Brownish yellow fish. The uper body and fins are darker brown.
Size: 40 inches long and adults are 6kg in weight.
Habitat: Find in mud and rocky places in rivers and lakes.
Breeding: Catadromous, spawning eggs.
Status: Indigenous
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- (Labeo rohita) - rohu fish
- (Puntius amphibius) - scarlet banded barb - mada ipilla
- (Puntius chola) - Swamp barb - kota ipilla
- (Puntius dorsalis) - long snouted barb -katu kuriya
- (Puntius ticto ticto) -Ticto barb- Thith pethiya
- Acanthocobitis urophthalmus/Tiger loach/Vairan ehirawa
- anguilla bengalensis eel/ Long finned eel/ Pol Mal aandha
- Anguilla bicolor/ kalu aandha/ Level finned eel
- Aplocheilus dayi - Day's killifish - Uda handeya
- Aplocheilus parvus - Drarf panchax - Udda
- Aplocheilus werneri/ Iri handaya
- Aristichthys nobilis- Bighead carp
- Asoka barb/Asoka pethiya/ Puntius asoka
- Banded mountain loach
- Barred danio/ Danio pathirana/ pathirana salaya
- Belontia signata/ Thalkossa
- Black lined barb/ hitha massa/ Puntius pleurotania
- Blotched filamented barb / Dawkinsia srilankensis / pethiya dankudu
- bulath hapaya/ puntius nigrofasciatus/
- Catla catla
- Cherry barb /Ley titteya/ Puntius titteya
- Cirrhinus mrigala - mirigal
- Clarias brachysoma - Walking catfish - Magura
- Ctenopharyngodon idell - Grass Carp
- Cuming's burb/ pothaya/ Puntius cumingii
- Cyprinus carpio - Rata pethiya
- Danio malabaricus/dankola salaya/ Giant danio
- danio/ Esomous thermoicos/ flying barb/ Ravul dandia
- Dawkinsia singhala- Dankola pethiya
- Eleotris fusca - Brown gudgeon - Puwakbadilla
- Esomus thermoicos/ flying barb/ Rawul dandia
- Etroplus maculatus - Orange chromide - Kaha koraliya
- Freshwater fish List of SriLanka /Freshwater fishes of sri lanka / List of freshwater fishes in sri lanka
- Freshwater fishes of sri lanka / List of freshwater fishes in sri lanka
- gadaya/ Labeo Fisheri
- Gal padi/Garra ceylonensis
- Golden rasbora/ hal mal dandia/ Rasbora nigromarginata
- Heteropneustes fossilis - Stringing catfish - Hunga
- Heteropneustes microps - Stringing catfish - Hunga- endemic fish to sri lanka
- Hypophthalmichthys molitrix - silver carp
- Ipilli kadaya/Puntius bimaculatus/ Redside barb
- Jonklaas's loach/jonklasige ehirawa/ Lepidocephalus jonklaasi
- kadu ahirawa / Nemacheilus notostigma /
- Labeo dussumieri - Common labeo - hiri kanaya
- Lates calcarifer - Barramundi - Modha/ koduwa
- Lepidocephalichthys thermalis - Common spiny loah - Ehirawa
- Lutjanus argentimaculatus - Red snapper - Thambalaya
- Malpulutta kretseri - Ornate paradisefish - Malpulutta
- Megalops cyprinoides- Tarpon - ileya
- Microphis brachyurus - Short-tailed pipefish
- Microphis ocellatus - ocellated pipefish - Punchi ata theliya
- Monodactylus argenteus - Kapuwa
- Mystus gulio - Long whiskered catfish - Anguluwa
- mystus keletius - Yellow catfish - Path ankutta
- Mystus vittatus - Striped dwarf catfish - Iri ankutta
- Ompok bimaculatus - Butter catfish- Walapoththa
- Oncorhynchus mykiss - Rainbow trout
- Orange fin labeo - Labeo porcellus
- Puntius sarana - Olive barb - mas pethiya
- Rasbora daniconius -Striped rasbora - Dandiya
- Rasbora wilpita - wilpita dandia
- Sicyopus jonklaasi - Lipstick goby
- Tic-tac-toe-barb
- Tor khudree - Mahseer -Leylla
- Toxotes chatareus - Archer fish - Dhimitta
- Xenentodon cancila - Freshwater garfish - yonna
- Zenarchopterus dispar - Viviparous - Morella
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