class
Ray-finned Fishes
Actinopterygii
Field notes
Children
- Spiny-rayed Fishes 817 native
- Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies 223 native
- Salmons, Pikes and Mudminnows 27 native
- Herrings 19 native
- Tarpons, Eels, and Allies 19 native
- Gars and Bowfins 7 native
- Grinners, Lizardfishes, and Allies 5 native
- Sturgeons and Paddlefishes 5 native
- Smelts and Allies 4 native
- Bonytongues and Mooneyes 2 native
- Pycnodontiformes
- Jellynose Fishes
- Marine Smelts
- Bichirs
- Dragonfishes and Allies
- Galaxiids
- Lanternfishes
Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Most observed native ray-finned fishes All
Native to the US, by observations.
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Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
64,873 observations
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Largemouth Bass
Micropterus nigricans
43,754 observations
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Rainbow Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
27,010 observations
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Green Sunfish
Lepomis cyanellus
22,081 observations
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Western Mosquitofish
Gambusia affinis
21,311 observations
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Pumpkinseed
Lepomis gibbosus
20,373 observations
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Smallmouth Bass
Micropterus dolomieu
19,764 observations
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Eastern Mosquitofish
Gambusia holbrooki
16,942 observations
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Creek Chub
Semotilus atromaculatus
15,476 observations
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Northern Pike
Esox lucius
15,166 observations
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Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
13,508 observations
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Channel Catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
12,328 observations
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Redbreast Sunfish
Lepomis auritus
12,090 observations
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Moorish Idol
Zanclus cornutus
11,753 observations
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Yellow Perch
Perca flavescens
11,590 observations