Identify your North American Native Fish

[ksiaquatics]

rainbow?

 

[teleost]

rainbow?

Yup. Rainbow. Both orangethroats and rainbow darters live in creek not far from my house. Orangethroats predominate here though.

 

[fortune]

i know it's not, but it kinda looks like a leaf fish!

 

[ksiaquatics]

Try this one.

 

[dredcon]

Etheostoma thalassinum?

 

[ksiaquatics]

Right group, but wrong fish.

 

[dredcon]

Etheostoma inscriptum?

 

[ksiaquatics]

That's it.

 

[dredcon]

Here's one, see if you can get it from this pic. I will post one with better details tomorrow.

 

[ksiaquatics]

Is that a young L. chrysocephalus?