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Alabama Bass
Micropterus henshalli
Alabama Bass (Micropterus henshalli) is a black bass native to the Mobile River basin and closely related to spotted bass. It favors clear to moderately turbid streams, reservoirs, and tailwaters with rock, wood, and shoreline cover.
Alligator Gar
Atractosteus spatula
Alligator gar is a large, ancient ray-finned fish of slow rivers, backwaters, oxbows, and floodplain lakes in the Mississippi basin and nearby coastal drainages. It ambushes fish at the surface and can breathe air, allowing it to survive low-oxygen water.
American Gizzard Shad
Dorosoma cepedianum
American Gizzard Shad is a silvery clupeid forage fish common in warm, slow waters across much of eastern and central North America. It feeds by filtering plankton and detritus, and is important prey for bass, catfish, crappie, and other predators.
American Pickerel
Esox americanus
American Pickerel (Esox americanus) is a slender, ambush-predatory esocid found in vegetated fresh waters across eastern North America. It is smaller and more delicately built than northern pike or muskellunge, with a duck-bill snout and chainlike markings.
Amur Carp
Cyprinus rubrofuscus
Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus) is a cyprinid carp native to East Asia and widely introduced beyond its original range. It inhabits warm, slow waters and is an adaptable bottom-feeder that can grow large in ponds, lakes, and lowland rivers.
Amur Goby
Rhinogobius similis
Amur goby (Rhinogobius similis) is a small benthic goby associated with cool, clear running water. It is reported from freshwater streams and rivers in East Asia, but available public records can be scattered and some identifications in occurrence data may be uncertain.
Banded Darter
Etheostoma zonale
A small Ozark and Upper Mississippi basin darter that lives on clean, flowing streams and riffles with sand, gravel, and rubble. It feeds on tiny benthic invertebrates and is usually not targeted by anglers.
Banded Kōkopu
Galaxias fasciatus
Banded kōkopu is a small native New Zealand galaxiid that lives in cool, shaded streams and migrates into riparian forest to breed on land after floods. It is not a common angling target and is best treated as a conservation-sensitive native fish.
Banded Pygmy Sunfish
Elassoma zonatum
Banded pygmy sunfish is a tiny, cryptic freshwater fish that lives in vegetated, slow-water habitats in the southeastern United States. Males become strongly barred and territorial during the breeding season, while the species generally stays hidden in plant cover and leaf litter.
Black Bullhead
Ameiurus melas
Black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) is a hardy North American catfish that tolerates warm, turbid, low-oxygen waters and often thrives where other fish decline. It is an opportunistic bottom feeder and a minor to moderate angling species in many waters.
Black Crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Black crappie are a popular North American sunfish found in clear to moderately stained freshwater lakes, reservoirs, ponds, and slow rivers. They school around cover and feed heavily on small মাছ and insects, especially at dawn and dusk.
Black Widow Tetra
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi
Black Widow Tetra is a small South American characin best known in the aquarium trade for its deep-bodied silver fish with dark vertical bars and a black rear half. It is a hardy schooling species that does best in planted, gently filtered freshwater tanks.