NCFishes.com Project team members Gabriela M. Hogue and Bryn H. Tracy in collaboration with Dr. Lily C. Hughes of North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, Jonathan A. Raine … Read more
Roanoke Logperch, Percina rex (Jordan and Evermann 1889), Family Percidae, is a very large species of darter that is endemic to the Roanoke and Chowan River basins in Virginia and … Read more
Guest blogger is Thomas (TR) Russ, NCWRC Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program, Marion, NC The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission’s (NCWRC) Aquatic Wildlife Diversity program is tasked with keeping common animals … Read more
NCFishes.com team members Fritz Rohde and Bryn Tracy with photographic expertise from Scott A. Smith and Jesse L. Bissette, along with six other colleagues and Dr. Robert E. Jenkins (deceased … Read more
The NCFishes.com Team has reported on North Carolina’s lampreys twice in our blogs — Distribution of American Brook Lamprey, Lethenteron appendix, in North Carolina (January 30, 2023) and Lamprey (Family … Read more
Let’s start this blog off with a slew of questions: Regardless if you know all the answers to these questions or do not know any of the answers, come along … Read more
In North Carolina, the Freshwater Drum, Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 (Figure 1), is indigenous to the western Mountain river basins where until recently, had been known from only a handful … Read more
Christopher Scharpf of the ETYFish Project (https://etyfish.org/) recently posted a revised guide to zoological nomenclature (see attached pdf file). His essay is an introduction to zoological nomenclature illustrated with names … Read more
The NCFishes.com team is excited to announce that their book: “A Guide to North Carolina’s Freshwater Fishes” will be available for purchase in March 2024. Their guide has been in … Read more
Luke Etchison, Dylan Owensby, and Chantelle Rondel North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program, Waynesville, NC The French Broad River (Map 1) is one of the oldest rivers … Read more