Blackfish

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title: "Blackfish" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["former-disambiguation-pages-converted-to-set-index-articles"] topic_path: "general/former-disambiguation-pages-converted-to-set-index-articles" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::callout[type=note] animals named 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)
• Black triggerfish
• 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)
• Orca (Orcinus orca)

Why? For placement in my proposed [[Category:Former set index articles converted from disambiguation pages]], it is a maintenance thing. ---

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