Family part 1
Family part 2
Genus and Species
Native or not
Identifying characteristics
100

This is the family for Lamprey.

What is Petromyzontidae?

100

This is the Family for Walleye, Sauger, Perch and Darters.

What is Percidae?

100

These are the genus and species for the Musky and Northern Pike.

What are Esox masquinongy and Esox lucius?

100

This lamprey is non-native.

What is the Sea Lamprey?

100

This is the main difference between the Gizzard Shad and Alewife vs the Mooneye.

What is a Serrated keel vs Smooth keel?

200

This is the Family for Bass and Sunfish

What is Centrarchidae?

200

This is the Family for Sculpin.

What is Cottidae?

200

These are the genus and species for Alewife and Gizzard Shad.

What are Alosa pseudoharengus and Dorosoma cepedianum?

200

This herring is non-native.

What is the Alewife?

200

One of the fish in family Cottidae has a narrow isthmus.

What is Deep Water Sculpin?

300

This is the Family for Catfish.

What is Ictaluridae?

300

These are the Families for Lake Sturgeon, Freshwater Drum, and Mudminnow.

What are Umbridae, Scianenidae, and Acipenseridae?

300

These are the genus and species for Rainbow trout, Coho salmon, Brown trout, and Eastern brook trout.

What are Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Salmo trutta, and Salvelinus fontinalis?

300

This small fish from group 1 was introduced to Wisconsin and considered non-native.

What is the Rainbow Smelt?

300

This fish has a deeply forked caudal fin, and a black spot at the base of the caudal fin.

What is the Spottail Shiner?

400

This is the Family for Buffalo and Suckers.

What is Catostomidae?

400

These are the Families for Bowfin, Mooneye, and Rainbow Smelt.

What are Amiidae, Hiodontidae, and Osmeridae?

400

These are the genus and species for Brook stickleback and Ninespine stickleback.

What are Culaea inconstans, and Pungitius pungitius?

400

This fish with worm like markings on its back is native.

What is the Eastern Brook Trout?

400

This fish has a slight separation between the spinous and soft dorsal fins.

What is the White Bass?

500

This is the Family for Carp and Minnow.

What is Cyprinidae?

500

These are the Families for American Eel, Burbot, Trout Perch, Brook Silversides, and White Bass.

What are Anguillidae, Gadidae, Percopsidae, Atherinidae, and Percichthyidae?

500

These are the genus and species for the Freshwater Drum and the Lake Sturgeon.

What are Aplodinotus grunniens, and Acipenser fulvescens?

500

This Cyprinidae fish is non-native.

What is the European Carp?

500

This fish has a spotted spinous dorsal in comparison to the other fish with the same Genus.

What is a Sauger?