Identify your North American Native Fish

[Skipjack]

Heck, I am answering this one, cause I have a fish to post. E spectabile

 

[ewurm]

Heck, I am answering this one, cause I have a fish to post. E spectabile

What's the common name on that one?

 

[teleost]

Skipjack is right! And the secret to distinguish between E. spectabile (orangethroat darter) and E. caeruleum (rainbow darter) is the anal fin as Skipjack said. Spectabile have a one color anal fin (blue-green in this area) and Caeruleum have a two color anal fin (blue-green & orange).

The nape also is a bit different between the two but the anal fin is a dead giveaway.


Your turn Skipster

Teleost your always picking fish from my localities of study ...makes it hard to be fair and even

Poly, I'm always showing you the photos I take before I post anyway

I make it impossible for a few of you to participate!

 

[ewurm]

Crap, that would have been my next guess. Too much color for an E. Exile.

 

[Skipjack]

caught this one in a riffle, it is about 1.5 inches long. From Ohio

 

[dogfish]

Stonecat/tadpole mandom?

 

[Skipjack]

nope, neither of those.

 

[Polypterus]

Teleost.....Oops Skipjack.... your always picking fish from my localities of study ...makes it hard to be fair and even

 

[Skipjack]

Teleost.....Oops Skipjack.... your always picking fish from my localities of study ...makes it hard to be fair and even

Same story, not a photo I have, have you not seen. But anyway most would be easy enough for you to ID anyway.

Anyone else. Ohio only has so many catfish. And in a riffle......

 

[rjmtx]

Looks like little flathead cat to me