Family
Genus and Species 1
Genus and Species 2
Identify this fish
Fins, Tails, and Scales
100

This is the Family for the Bowfin.

What is Amiidae?

100

This is the Genus and Species for the Mooneye.

What is Hiodon tergisus?

100

Name the Genus and Species for a Bowfin

What is Amia calva?

100

This fish has a concave head.

What is Northern Hogsucker?

100

These fish have ganoid scales.

What are long nose and short nose gar?

200

This is the Family for the Rainbow Smelt

What is Osmeridae?

200

This is the Genus and Species for the Trout Perch.

What is Percopsis omiscomaycus?

200

Name the Genus and Species for the Sculpin.

What are Cottus bairdii, Cottus cognates, and Myoxocephalus thompsonii?

200

This fish has 6-9 pores.

What is the Musky?

200

This fish family has an axillary process.

What are Salmonidae?

300

This is the Family for the Sticklebacks.

What is Gasterosteidae?

300

This is the Genus and Species for the Rainbow Smelt.

What is Osmerus mordax?
300

This is the Genus and Species for the Brook Silversides.

What is Labidesthes sicculus?
300

This fish has a lateral line that extends all the way to the end of the caudal fin.

What is the Freshwater Drum?

300

The channel catfish is known for:

What is a deeply forked caudal fin?

400

This is the Family for the Sculpins.

What is Cottidae?

400

Name the Genus and Species for the 1st part of Family Percidae.

What are Perca flavescens, Sander vitreus, and Sander canadense?

400

Name the Genus and Species for the 2nd part of Family Percidae.

What are Etheostoma nigrum, Etheostoma flabellare, Percina maculate, Etheostoma caeruleum, Percina caprodes?

400

This fish has an adipose fin and a smooth body like a trout.

What is the Trout Perch?

400

This fish has small scales near the head and larger scales near the tail

What is the White Sucker?

500

This is the Family for the Gars.

What is Lepisosteidae?

500

These are the 4 Genus for the Catfish.

What are Ictalurus, Ameirus, Noturus, and Pylodictus?

500
Name the 4 Genus for Family Centrarchidae.

What is Micropterus, Pomoxis, Ambloplites, and Lepomis?

500

Name the characteristics that separate the small mouth buffalo, large mouth buffalo, and quillback carpsucker.

The LM Buffalo has a bass like mouth, the SM Buffalo has a sucker like mouth and a highly arched back, and the Quillback Carpsucker has longer dorsal fin rays and a mouth positioned at the bottom of the head.

500

The Bowfin and the Gars have this type of caudal fin.

What is modified heterocircle caudal fin?

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