NATURAL HISTORY OF MINNESOTA FISHES 

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Common Names (A, B, C-E, F-G, H-L, M-O, P-Q, R, S, T-Z)

  1. alewife
  2. American brook lamprey
  3. American eel
  4. Atlantic salmon
  5. banded darter
  6. banded killifish
  7. bigmouth buffalo
  8. bigmouth shiner
  9. black buffalo
  10. black bullhead
  11. black_crappie
  12. black redhorse
  13. blackchin shiner
  14. blacknose dace
  15. blacknose shiner
  16. blackside darter
  17. bloater
  18. blue catfish
  19. blue sucker
  20. bluegill
  21. bluntnose darter
  22. bluntnose minnow
  23. brassy minnow
  24. bowfin
  25. brook_silverside
  26. brook stickleback
  27. brook trout
  28. brown bullhead
  29. brown trout
  30. bullhead minnow
  31. burbot
  32. carp
  33. central_mudminnow
  34. central stoneroller
  35. channel catfish
  36. channel shiner
  37. chestnut lamprey
  38. chinook salmon
  39. cisco
  40. coho salmon
  41. common shiner
  42. creek chub
  43. crystal darter
  44. deepwater cisco
  45. deepwater sculpin
  46. emerald shiner
  47. fantail darter
  48. fathead minnow
  49. finescale dace
  50. flathead catfish
  51. flathead chub
  52. four-spine stickleback
  53. freshwater drum
  54. ghost shiner
  55. gilt darter
  56. gizzard shad
  57. golden redhorse
  58. golden shiner
  59. goldeye
  60. goldfish
  61. grass carp
  62. gravel chub
  63. greater_redhorse
  64. green_sunfish
  65. highfin carpsucker
  66. hornyhead chub
  67. Iowa darter
  68. Johnny darter
  69. kiyi
  70. lake chub
  71. lake herring
  72. lake sturgeon
  73. lake trout
  74. lake whitefish
  75. largemouth_bass
  76. largescale stoneroller
  77. least darter
  78. logperch
  79. longear sunfish
  80. longnose dace
  81. longnose gar
  82. longnose sucker
  83. mimic shiner
  84. Mississippi silvery minnow
  85. mirror carp
  86. mooneye
  87. mottled_sculpin
  88. mud darter
  89. muskellunge
  90. ninespine stickleback
  91. Nipigon cisco
  92. northern brook lamprey
  93. northern hogsucker
  94. northern pike
  95. northern redbelly dace
  96. orangespotted sunfish
  97. Ozark minnow
  98. paddlefish
  99. pallid shiner
  100. pearl dace
  101. pigmy whitefish
  102. pink salmon
  103. pirate perch
  104. plains topminnow
  105. pugnose minnow
  106. pugnose shiner
  107. pumpkinseed
  108. quillback
  109. rainbow darter
  110. rainbow smelt
  111. rainbow trout
  112. red shiner
  113. redfin shiner
  114. redside dace
  115. river carpsucker
  116. river darter
  117. river redhorse
  118. river shiner
  119. rock_bass
  120. rosyface shiner
  121. round goby
  122. round whitefish
  123. ruffe
  124. sand shiner
  125. sauger
  126. sea lamprey
  127. shorthead_redhorse
  128. shortnose gar
  129. shovelnose sturgeon
  130. silver chub
  131. silver lamprey
  132. silver_redhorse
  133. skipjack herring
  134. slender madtom
  135. slenderhead darter
  136. slimy sculpin
  137. smallmouth_bass
  138. smallmouth_buffalo
  139. southern brook lamprey
  140. southern redbelly dace
  141. speckled chub
  142. spoonhead sculpin
  143. spotfin shiner
  144. spottail shiner
  145. spotted sucker
  146. starhead topminnow
  147. stonecat
  148. suckermouth minnow
  149. tadpole_madtom
  150. threespine stickleback
  151. tiger muskie
  152. Topeka shiner
  153. trout-perch
  154. tubenose goby
  155. walleye
  156. warmouth
  157. weed shiner
  158. western sand darter
  159. white_bass
  160. white crappie
  161. white perch
  162. white sucker
  163. yellow bass
  164. yellow bullhead
  165. yellow_perch

Scientific Names (A, B-C, D-G, H-K, L, M, N, O, P, Q-Z)

  1. Acipenser fulvescens
  2. Alosa chrysochloris
  3. Alosa pseudoharengus
  4. Ambloplites rupestris
  5. Ameiurus melas
  6. Ameiurus natalis
  7. Ameiurus nebulosus
  8. Amia calva
  9. Ammocrypta clara
  10. Anguilla rostrata
  11. Apeltes quadracus
  12. Aphredoderus sayanus
  13. Aplodinotus grunniens
  14. Campostoma anomalum
  15. Campostoma oligolepis
  16. Carassius auratus
  17. Carpiodes carpio
  18. Carpiodes cyprinus
  19. Carpiodes velifer
  20. Catostomus catostomus
  21. Catostomus commersoni
  22. Chaenobryttus gulosus
  23. Clinostomus elongatus
  24. Coregonus artedi
  25. Coregonus clupeaformis
  26. Coregonus hoyi
  27. Coregonus kiyi
  28. Coregonus nipigon
  29. Coregonus zenithicus
  30. Cottus bairdi
  31. Cottus cognatus
  32. Cottus ricei
  33. Couesius plumbeus
  34. Crystallaria (Ammocrypta) asprella
  35. Ctenopharyngodon idella
  36. Culaea inconstans
  37. Cycleptus elongatus
  38. Cyprinella lutrensis
  39. Cyprinella spiloptera
  40. Cyprinus carpio
  41. Dorosoma cepedianum
  42. Erimystax x-punctata
  43. Esox lucius Esox lucius X E. masquinongy
  44. Esox masquinongy
  45. Etheostoma asprigene
  46. Etheostoma caeruleum
  47. Etheostoma chlorosoma
  48. Etheostoma exile
  49. Etheostoma flabellare
  50. Etheostoma microperca
  51. Etheostoma nigrum
  52. Etheostoma zonale
  53. Fundulus diaphanus
  54. Fundulus dispar
  55. Fundulus sciadicus
  56. Gasterosteus aculeatus
  57. Gymnocephalus cernuus
  58. Hiodon alosoides
  59. Hiodon tergisus
  60. Hybognathus hankinsoni
  61. Hybognathus nuchalis
  62. Hybopsis amnis
  63. Hypentilium nigricans
  64. Ichthyomyzon castaneus
  65. Ichthyomyzon fossor
  66. Ichthyomyzon gagei
  67. Ichthyomyzon unicuspis
  68. Ictalurus furcatus
  69. Ictalurus punctatus
  70. Ictiobus bubalus
  71. Ictiobus cyprinellus
  72. Ictiobus niger
  73. Labidesthes sicculus
  74. Lampretra appendix
  75. Lepisosteus osseus
  76. Lepisosteus platostomus
  77. Lepomis cyanellus
  78. Lepomis gibbosus
  79. Lepomis humilis
  80. Lepomis macrochirus
  81. Lepomis megalotis
  82. Lota lota
  83. Luxilus cornutus
  84. Lythrurus umbratilis
  85. Macrhybopsis aestivalis
  86. Macrhybopsis storeriana
  87. Margariscus margarita
  88. Micropterus dolomieu
  89. Micropterus salmoides
  90. Minytrema melanops
  91. Morone americana
  92. Morone chrysops
  93. Morone mississippiensis
  94. Moxostoma anisurum
  95. Moxostoma carinatum
  96. Moxostoma duquesnei
  97. Moxostoma erythrurum
  98. Moxostoma macrolepidotum
  99. Moxostoma valenciennesi
  100. Myoxocephala thompsoni
  101. Neogobius melanostomus
  102. Nocomis biguttatus
  103. Notemigonus crysoleucas
  104. Notropis anogenus
  105. Notropis atherinoides
  106. Notropis blennius
  107. Notropis buchanani
  108. Notropis dorsalis
  109. Notropis heterodon
  110. Notropis heterolepis
  111. Notropis hudsonius
  112. Notropis ludibundus
  113. Notropis nubilus
  114. Notropis rubellus
  115. Notropis texanus
  116. Notropis topeka
  117. Notropis volucellus
  118. Notropis wickliffi
  119. Noturus exilis
  120. Noturus flavus
  121. Noturus gyrinus
  122. Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
  123. Oncorhynchus kisutch
  124. Oncorhynchus mykiss
  125. Oncorhynchus tshawytcha
  126. Opsopoeodus emiliae
  127. Osmerus mordax
  128. Perca flavescens
  129. Percina caprodes
  130. Percina evides
  131. Percina maculata
  132. Percina phoxocephala
  133. Percina shumardi
  134. Percopsis omiscomaycus
  135. Petromyzon marinus
  136. Phenacobius mirabilis
  137. Phoxinus eos
  138. Phoxinus erythrogaster
  139. Phoxinus neogaeus
  140. Pimephales notatus
  141. Pimephales promelas
  142. Pimephales vigilax
  143. Platygobio gracilis
  144. Polyodon spathula
  145. Pomoxis annularis
  146. Pomoxis nigromaculatus
  147. Prosopium coulteri
  148. Prosopium cylindraceum
  149. Proterorhinus marmoratus
  150. Pungitius pungitius occidentalis
  151. Pylodictis olivaris
  152. Rhinichthys atratulus
  153. Rhinichthys cataractae
  154. Sander (Stizostedion) canadensis
  155. Sander (Stizostedion) vitreus
  156. Salmo salar
  157. Salmo trutta
  158. Savelinus fontinalis
  159. Salvelinus namaycush
  160. Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
  161. Semotilus atromaculatus
  162. Umbra limi

    163. Under construction-- last modified 16 February 2004