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Photos - Freshwater Fish

Many of these photos were taken at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, the New Jersey Aquarium, and the Aquatic Visitors Center at South Bass Island, Ohio. Feel free to use these photographs on any of your government, citizen or not-for-profit Web sites. I only ask that you credit this Web site page and acknowledge the name of the photographer in the alt tag. Please email us if you need higher resolution photos or permissions for other purposes.

Please learn more about Freshwater Fish Identification and Their Use as Indicators and read An Introduction to Freshwater Fishes as Biological Indicators (EPA-260-R-08-016 November 2008) (96 pp, 3.3MB About PDF)

Miscellaneous Fish Pictures

Orange spotted sunfish - photo by Wayne Davis USEPA
Orange spotted sunfish
Lepomis humilis

Family Centrarchidae (Sunfishes)
Orangethroat Darter - photo by Wayne Davis USEPA
Orangethroat Darter
Etheostoma spectabile
Family Percidae (Perches)
Carp - - photo by Wayne Davis EPA at Shedd Aquarium
Carp
Cyprinis carpio

Family Cyprinidae (minnows)

Channel Catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
Family Ictaluridae (freshwater catfishes)
Longnose gar - photo by Wayne Davis at Baltimore Aquarium
Longnose gar
Lepisosteus osseus
Family Lepisosteidae (gars)
Spotted gar  - photo by Wayne Davis EPA (Baltimore Aquarium)
Spotted gar
Lepisosteus oculatus
Family Lepisosteidae (gars)
Lake sturgeon - photo by Wayne Davis
Lake Sturgeon
Acipenser fulvescens
Family Acipenseridae (sturgeons)
Muskellunge  - photo by Wayne Davis EPA at Shedd Aquarium
Muskellunge
Esox masquinongy
Family Esocidae (pikes)
Rainbow Trout - photo by Wayne Davis USEPA
Rainbow Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss

Family Salmonidae (Trouts)

Paddlefish - Photo by Wayne Davis USEPA
Paddlefish
Polydon spathula

Family Polyodontidae (paddlefishes)

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