The Fishes of North Carolina
Family Scientific Name Author Year Common Name Ictaluridae Noturus sp. “Cape Fear Broadtail” Madtom Unique Characters: Found only in Cape Fear drainage. Caudal fin base with dark blotch. Fins not … Read more
Family Scientific Name Author Year Common Name Ictaluridae Noturus sp. “Pee Dee River Broadtail” Madtom Unique Characters: Found only in Lumber and Waccamaw drainages. Caudal fin base with dark blotch. … Read more
Family Scientific Name Author Year Common Name Ictaluridae Noturus sp. “Lake Waccamaw Broadtail” Madtom Unique Characters: Found only in Lake Waccamaw. Caudal fin base with dark blotch. Fins not edged … Read more
Noturus insignis Family Scientific Name Author Year Common Name Ictaluridae Noturus insignis (Richardson) 1836 Margined Madtom Unique Characters: Dorsal, anal, and caudal fins usually edged with black. Anal fin with … Read more
Our checklist of the freshwater fishes of North Carolina follows: Tracy, B. H., F.C. Rohde, and G. M. Hogue. (2020). An annotated atlas of the freshwater fishes of North Carolina. … Read more
By the NCFishes.com Team The New River basin, in the extreme northwest corner of North Carolina, is one of the smallest river basins in the state with a drainage area … Read more
By the NCFishes.com Team Two new identification keys to the freshwater fishes of North Carolina have been recently published by the North American Native Fishes Association (http://www.nanfa.org/) in their journal … Read more
By the NCFishes.com Team This is the last blog in the series focusing on the freshwater fishes of North Carolina, which was launched on June 17, 2020 (https://ncfishes.com/identification-of-north-carolina-freshwater-fishes/). In some … Read more
By the NCFishes.com Team There are 18 species of catfishes in North Carolina including 3 undescribed species (Table 1) (Tracy et al. 2020). You might have heard people calling them … Read more