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“Three-of-a-Kind” – Pike (Family Esocidae) Diversity in North Carolina

January 3, 2021December 21, 2020 by Bryn Tracy

By the NCFishes.com Team North Carolina is home to 3 of the 4 species of Esox known to occur in North America: Redfin Pickerel, Esox americanus, Chain Pickerel, E. niger, … Read more

Categories Fish ID, Uncategorized Tags Dichotomous Key, Esocidae, Esox, Pickerels, Pikes Leave a comment

“Minnow” Species Diversity in North Carolina

December 19, 2020December 3, 2020 by Scott Smith

“Minnow” Species (Families Cyprinidae, Xenocyprididae, and Leuciscidae) Diversity in North Carolina By the NCFishes.com Team Next to our native darters (Family Percidae), our native species of minnows rival the brightly … Read more

Categories Fish ID, Uncategorized Tags Cyprinidae, daces, Dichotomous Key, hornyheads, Leuciscidae, minnows, shiners, Xenocyprinidae Leave a comment

Sunfish (Family Centrarchidae) Diversity in North Carolina

January 28, 2021November 22, 2020 by Bryn Tracy

By the NCFishes.com Team There are 23 species of sunfishes in North Carolina (Table 1), including one undescribed species, “Bartram’s” Bass and one species, Redeye Bass, found in only the … Read more

Categories Fish ID, Uncategorized Tags bass, Centrarchidae, crappie, Dichotomous Key, sunfish, sunfishes Leave a comment

Freshwater Catfish (Family Ictaluridae) Diversity in North Carolina

December 19, 2020November 9, 2020 by Bryn Tracy

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

Categories Fish ID, Uncategorized Tags catfish, catfishes, Dichotomous Key, Ictaluridae, Key Leave a comment

Identifying Suckers May Not Be as Hard as You Might Think

January 25, 2021October 21, 2020 by Bryn Tracy

By the NCFishes.com Team The correct identification of suckers (Family Catostomidae) may be intimidating to those students or citizens just beginning to study our extremely diverse and colorful freshwater fish … Read more

Categories Fish ID, Uncategorized Tags Catostomoidae, Dichotomous Key, redhorses, Suckers Leave a comment

The Upland Dusky Shiner, Notropis cummingsae collis Hubbs & Raney 1951

December 8, 2020July 14, 2020 by Bryn Tracy

The Dusky Shiner, Notropis cummingsae Myers 1925, was partitioned by Hubbs and Raney in 1951 into two subspecies, the Lowland Dusky Shiner, Notropis cummingsae cummingsae, and the Upland Dusky Shiner, N. cummingsae collis.

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Identification of North Carolina Freshwater Fishes

July 11, 2020June 17, 2020 by Bryn Tracy

The first general description of North Carolina’s fish fauna was written by Thomas Ash in 1682. Our first state-specific checklist was provided by John Lawson in 1709 which was received … Read more

Categories Fish ID Tags Freshwater Fish, Identification, North Carolina Leave a comment

Tiger Grouper

January 1, 2020 by Scott Smith

Every once in a while we get wind of a oddball fish caught or landed in North Carolina. Today was one of those days! We were forwarded an email from … Read more

Categories Fish ID Tags Fishes of North Carolina, Mycteroperca tigris, Tiger Grouper Leave a comment
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