Fish in Sulu

Aluwan - Mudfish; Murrel
Anak Bung - Cavalla; Pampano
Bahaba' - Russel snapper
Bahu'-Bahu' - Brown striped snapper
Banak - Any of various kinds of mullet
Bangasan - Banded barracuda
Bangus - Milkfish
Bawis - Iganid
Bigaung - Theraponid grant
Bingki - Small scaled flying fish
Bukan - any of several wrasse fishes
Buna' - Leaf fish
Bung - Siganid
Dapak - Red snapper
Gula-gula - Malabar cavalla
Guntul - Variety of fish
Ilak - Striped rudder fish
Indangan - Surgeon fish
Indung - Salt water eel
Ista' Puti' - Any of various kind of cavalla fish
Ista' puti bilu bilu - Spotted cavalla
Kahumbu - Whale
Kamang - Lizard fish
Kandaman - Bull's eye fish
Kandayan - Sailfish
Kanuus - Squid
Kappu' - Scorpion fish
Kappu' dagmay - Sargassum fish
Kasig - Sardine
Kasil - Swamp eel
Kaytan - Shark
Kaytan kat kat - Sawfish
Kaytan malu malu - Guitar fish
Kaytan pamingkungan - Hammerhead fish
Kaytan tutungan - Black finned shark
Kindat - A kind of small octopus
Kitang - Archer fish; spade fish
Kiyampaw bas - Blue spotted sting ray
Kubal Kubal - Hardtail
Kugita - Octopus
Kulabutan - Cuttlefish
Kulampira' - Any flat fish having both eyes on the same side
Kulapu - Any of a number of groupers (Lapu lapu)
Kummi - Common remore
Kutambak - Sea bream; porgy
Kuwambal - Variety of fish
Lambana' - Striped barracuda
Lappit - Wrasse
Las las - Fish with vertical stripes
Lumahan - Striped mackerel
Lumba' lumba' - Porpoise
Luppi - Grant
Manumbuk - Swordfish
Mangagat - Pargo
Mangali - Toothless cavalla
Mangku' - Frigate mackerel
Mangilap - Siganus
Mangsa' - Banded Cavalla
Maya maya - Any of several snappers
Pagi - Ray
Pagi batu - Eagle ray
Pagi manuk - Javan cow nosed ray
Pagi sanga - Spineless devil ray
Pagi tamimik - Marbled sting ray
Palig - Boarfish
Panit - Tuna
Panit gampal - Yellow fin tuna
Pangaluwan - Banded barracuda
Pilluk - cuckoo wrasse
Pitig - Horsefish
Piyatay - any of the anchovy family
Piyatay anak bat - Anchovy
Piyatay lusi' - Silverside
Piyatay timbang - Long jawed anchovy
Pugut - Trigger fish
Puti' mata - Spotted mojaras
Puyan - Skipjack
Salay salay - Any of several kinds of crevalle
Sapsap - Spotted moonfish
Subad - Bonito
Sulig - Caesio fish
Sulig mapan - denticulated caesio
Taballung - Cowfish
Tabula/tabulla - A rather small squid
Tamalingking - Lionfish
Tamangka' - Sand diver
Tamarung - Big bodied round scad
Tamban - Indian sardine
Tamban kalang - Fimbriated herring
Tambilawang - Garfish
Tangbud - Whiting
Tangi' - Spanish mackerel
Tawti - Catfish (generic); stinging fish
Tawti sumbiling - Green sea catfish
Tawti tubig - Eel catfish
Tayruk - Angel fish rock beauty
Tibuk - Coarl fish; damsel fish
Tihik tihik - Soldier Fish
Tilapiya - A kind of fresh water fish
Timbungan - Goatfish
Tulay li'gat - Big eyed scad
Ugus - Parrot fish
Ung ung - Two finned runner
Uwa' - The mature female milkfish

Source: Tausug-English Dictionary Kabtangan iban Maana (Irene U. Hassan et. al)

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