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
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
Fritz Rohde1, Bryn H. Tracy2, and Michael Fisk3 1Wilmington, NC; 2Apex, NC; 3North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program, Mebane, NC The American Brook Lamprey, Lethenteron appendix (Dekay, … 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 How did this fish, the smallest member of the Stickleback family, get here? And when? As written in our previous blog on sticklebacks (https://ncfishes.com/is-north-carolina-too-far-south-for-sticklebacks/), Dr. Hugh … Read more