The 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has listed 91 recently extinct fish species, but in fact there are many more that went extinct. This list contains fish from the classes: Actinopterygii and Cephalaspidomorphi. The subjoined list contains 93 fish species and 1 subspecies.

As told above, many more fish went extinct! For example: about 200 species of extinct cichlids (Haplochromis sp.) from the African Lake Victoria (the IUCN has listed 31 species). The cause of their extinction is the Nile perch (Lates niloticus), a large predatory fish that was introduced into the lake in the early 1960's. The perch was meant to increase the yield of the local fishery. Some twenty years after its introduction there was a sudden and enormous as yet unexplained outburst of the Nile perch. As it mainly feeds on haplochromines almost all of the about 200 Haplochromis species living in water deeper than 4 metres vanished within a few years. Most of the species were not yet known to science.  

Coregonus johannae

Cyprinodon latifasciatus

Evarra eigenmanni

Haplochromis nyanzae

Haplochromis obtusidens