List of fishes of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a country with thousands of rivers and ponds, and is notable as a fish-loving nation, acquiring the name machh-e bhat-e Bangali (which means, "Bengali by fish and rice").

Fish are both caught from the wild and farmed in artificial ponds.

Bengali also has a generic term for three related fish species from the family Polynemidae.

A lakkha fish (লাক্ষা মাছ) may be Eleutheronema tetradactylum, Leptomelanosoma indicum or Polydactylus sexfilis.

[4] Bengali has multiple synonyms for a single species and a single word for multiple species (a generic term) as shown in the list below.