List of goldfish varieties

Goldfish

This is a list of goldfish varieties and their characteristics. Currently, there are about 300 breeds of goldfish recognized in China.[1]

Single-tailed varieties

Single tailed varieties have a single caudal fin and anal fin. They have longer, streamlined bodies and are faster swimming than shorter egg-shaped goldfishes. They are all come from common goldfish except itself but rare egg-shaped varieties like nymph goldfish are developed from egg-shaped goldfish. They have no telescopic eyes, celestial eyes, nor bubble, eyes. They have no headgrowths like orandas, lionheads, and ranchus, narial boquets like pompoms, and curled gills like curled-gill.

Streamlined bodied

As you can see there are no shubunkin goldfish in this article because shubunkins are only calico colored, have no color and pattern except for calico. Colors of goldfish are not limited to some varieties but all of the varieties of goldfish have colors the same as common goldfish which they all developed.

Egg-shaped bodied

Double-tailed varieties

Double-tailed or fancy goldfish. Fancy, in goldfish, meaning they have double caudal fins and anal fins. Is the most popular and the most expensive types of goldfish. There are two types of fancy goldfish:

Streamlined bodied

Egg-shaped bodied

Egg-shaped goldfish are most popular types of goldfish, they have two types:

Dorsal finned varieties

Orange-white Ryukin goldfish

Dorsal finless varieties

Bubble eye goldfish

Pond goldfish

Water lilies and goldfish at Biltmore
Pond goldfish at the Yuyuan Garden

Most Goldfish varieties are capable of living in outdoor ponds. Goldfish that are not capable of living in ponds include celestial eye and bubble eye, because of their fragile eyes.

Goldfish Tail Types

Single-tailed tail types

Double-tailed tail types

Other tail identification

Colors of goldfish

There are three main color pigments of goldfish but some are just a reflection that reflects a color other than these three color pigments.

And this is the color combinations and appearance of the three main color pigments above.

See also

Notes and references

  1. Roots, Clive (2007). Domestication. Westport: Greenwood Press. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-0-313-33987-5.

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