Goldfish is one of the common names in the market of home decorative goods, especially for the aquarium lovers. Goldfish mostly known for its color from which it got its name. But recently researchers have invented so many colors of Goldfish which are pretty eye catching with the form different colors excluding gold. It is good to mention that not every fish with gold color is a Goldfish.
Same time, there are so many of Goldfish varieties and for that reason we don’t know about all of those. On the contrary, we know the different colors goldfish in different name.
Classifications of Goldfish:
1. Common goldfish
This one has a variety of colors including red, orange, "gold", white, black, and yellow goldfish.
2. Black Telescope
The Black telescope is a black-colored variant of telescope goldfish that has a characteristic pair of protruding eyes. It is also referred to as popeye, moor, kuro-demekin in Japan and dragon-eye in China.
3. Bubble Eye
The small, fancy Bubble Eye has no dorsal fin and upward pointing eyes accompanied by two large fluid-filled sacs.
4. Celestial Eye
Fancy Celestial eye goldfish or Choten gan has a double tail and a breed-defining pair of upturned, telescope eyes with pupils gazing skyward.
5. Comet
Comet is no way a goldfish for some people but this one also includes in the classifications of Goldfish. The comet or comet-tailed goldfish is a single-tailed variety in the United States. It is similar to the common goldfish, except slightly smaller and slimmer, and is mainly distinguished by its long, deeply forked tail.
6. Fantail
Fantail is another popular fish for decorative purpose. The Fantail goldfish is the western form of the Ryukin and possesses an egg-shaped body, a high dorsal fin, a long quadruple caudal fin, and no shoulder hump.
7. Veiltail Goldfish
It is similar to the fantail goldfish, except that they have longer fins. They have long tails and fins which resemble a veil and cause them to be slow-moving. They are prone to fin nipping because many other fish are attracted to their long flowing fins. Veiltail is the long-tailed version of the fantail goldfish.
8. Lionhead
The fancy lionhead has a hood. This fish is the precursor to the ranchu.
9. Oranda
The fancy oranda is characterised by a prominent raspberry-like hood (also known as wen or head growth) that encases the whole head and some with the entire face, except for the eyes and mouth.
10. Pearlscale
The fancy pearlscale or chinshurin in Japanese, is spherical-bodied with finnage similar to the fantail and veiltail. Its scales are protruded into white domes that remind one of pearls.
11. Pompom
The fancy Pompoms or pompons or hanafusa have bundles of loose fleshy outgrowths between the nostril, called nasal boquettes, on each side of the head.
12. Ryukin
The ryukin has a short, deep body with a characteristic shoulder hump.
13. Shubunkin
Fancy and hardy Japanese Shubunkins (朱文金) (translated literally as "red brocade") have a single tail with nacreous scales, and a pattern known as calico.
14. Telescope
The fancy telescope is characterized by its protruding eyes. It is also known as the globe eye or dragon eye goldfish.
15. Ranchu
The fancy Japanese ranchu is hooded. The Japanese refer to it as the "king of goldfish".
16. Panda Telescope
The fancy panda telescope is another colored variant of telescope goldfish.
17. Butterfly Tail
The butterfly tail moor or butterfly telescope is of the telescope-eye lineage, with twin broad tails best viewed from above. The spread of the caudal fins resembles butterflies underwater.
18. Meteor Goldfish
The meteor goldfish is a strange-looking variety that has been developed by specialist breeders of fancy goldfish. It has no tail fin, hence its name.
19. Lionchu
The Lionchu or lionhead-ranchu is a fancy goldfish that has resulted from crossbreeding lionheads and ranchus.
20. Egg-fish Goldfish
The egg-fish goldfish is a fancy goldfish that lacks a dorsal fin and has a pronounced egg-shaped body.
21. Shukin
The Shukin is a Ranchu-like goldfish developed from Ranchus and Orandas at the end of the 19th century in Japan.
22. Curled-gill Goldfish
The Curled-gill or Reversed-gill goldfish is another uncommon variety of fancy goldfish that has been developed by specialist enthusiasts. It owes its name to the out-turned appearance of its gill covers.
23. Tamasaba
The Tamasaba or Sabao is an uncommon Japanese variety of goldfish with a body shaped similar to the Ryukin and a very long, flowing, single tail that is similar to that of a comet goldfish, hence its other name, comet-tail ryukin.
24. Tosakin
The Tosakin is a very distinctive breed of goldfish with a large tail fin that spreads out horizontally (like a fan) behind the fish, followed by the bottom tips folding behind its caudal fin. Though technically a divided tail, the two halves are attached at the center/middle forming a single fin.
25. White Telescope
The White telescope is a white variant of telescope goldfish that has a white body and a characteristic pair of protruding eyes.
26. Pond Goldfish
Most goldfish varieties are capable of living in outdoor ponds. Goldfish that are not capable of living in ponds include telescope, celestial eye and bubble eye, because of their fragile eyes.
