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ichthyofauna

noun

ichthyofauna is a noun meaning “The fish of a particular region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-C-H-T-H-Y-O-F-A-U-N-A, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ichthyofauna is ichthyofaunas or ichthyofaunae.

What does ichthyofauna mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The fish of a particular region.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of ichthyofauna

  • ichthyofaunas plural
  • ichthyofaunae plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is ichthyofauna?

Ichthyofauna appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does ichthyofauna come from?

From ichthyo- + fauna.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).