Identify your North American Native Fish

[ksiaquatics]

Your turn Skipjack.

 

[Skipjack]

should be easy

 

[dredcon]

Fundulus catenatus?

 

[teleost]

I'm fairly certain that I am right on this one since, as it turns out, those are my hands under the fish. The photo was taken from a trip we made to the mountains of GA a few years ago.

wned:

And you're only fairly certain

 

[Skipjack]

Fundulus catenatus?

You are up Dred!

 

[dredcon]

heres one

 

[ksiaquatics]

Lepomis macrochirus, Copperbelly var.

 

[dredcon]

I don't think that what it is, it was caught in an unstocked bayou. I'm about 99% sure I id'ed it correctly.

 

[Skipjack]

Looks like macrochirus to me also.

 

[ksiaquatics]

The only other thing it could be is symmetricus. It looks a bit off for that, but I have never seen one in person so I can't be positive.

The copperbelly variant isn't necessarily a bred-in trait either. I believe it is found in wild populations as well. Something similar to the very purple macrochirus found in GA.