@operculum_ben this is a much more obvious individual due to its larger size
I can’t believe after 2 weeks of sorting 10k+ bandeds and greensides I got a hybrid two days in a row lol
Wailea, Wailea-Makena, Maui, Hawaii
Muskingum is full of butterfly carp… there just so happens to be a nearby koi farm
Both a male dollar and longear who were defending adjacent nests
Lepomis sp. Ouachita, there are no L. megalotis present here
Finally!!
An interesting possible hybrid darter
Let me know if this fish is a redbreast x bluegill hybrid
Released unharmed, photos 8 and 9 show a comparison between Sand Shiner (M. stramineus) and Bigmouth Shiner (E. dorsalis). Sand Shiner is above the Bigmouth Shiner. Photo 8 displays dorsal view of both showing scale difference and line and wedge feature on Sand (above), absent on Bigmouth (below).
Looked really off for a creek chub, no dorsal spot or barbel present and looked way more coloured up then a creek chub should l. I know they change colour a bit when spawning but this guy looks diffrent
Caught on a rocky flat in about 15 ft of water. Second photo is for comparison with striped bass.
Vouchered by AGFC. Five scale rows above lateral line, silver peritoneum.
AGFC/ANHC survey. With Jeff Quinn and Justin Stroman.
Suspect blackside x logperch
creek chub x luxilus sp.
this guy was MASSIVE, 4 inches easily, I thought it was a chub or stoneroller when I netted him.
note the strange bulging growth near his gill
One specimen.
Christmas or Surge Wrasse??
The internet only confuses me more. Please don’t ID unless you are fairly certain. I think the sources online have them confused and thereby confuse me. At least the sources that come up with a quick google search.
Collection IML no. 5706. Approximate date (Aug. 1985) and estimated position from field note (Wemindji).
AZMP-NL BB-14, collection IML no. 12908, z = 1000 m. Source: MPO-C. Turcotte.
Male in spawning condition. Lack of tubercle rows beween nostrils, unbanded anal fin.
With Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum) for comparison in 13th-15th photos (C. oligolepis is upper fish in #13 and #14 and on the right in #15).
AGFC/ANHC survey. With Jeff Quinn and Katie Morris.
Male in spawning condition. Crescent shaped row of tubercles on inner edge of each nostril, black band in anal fin.
With Largescale Stoneroller (Campostoma oligolepis) for comparison in 7th-9th photos (C. anomalum is lower fish in #7 and #8 and on the left in #9).
AGFC/ANHC survey. With Jeff Quinn and Katie Morris.
Saliña Sint Marie, Jan Kok, Curaçao
Dead individual found washed up on shore. No other dead seen.
Main observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196816642
Stevens Cay
With Johnny Darter in fifth photo (Channel Darter above, Johnny Darter below).
2018 summer Mountain Fork surveys with US FWS, US Forest Service, AGFC, ANHC, and other partners.
Last photo is with a Neosho Madtom for comparison.
Snapping Turtle came out of the water onto the small island in the center of the pond, took a Canada Goose egg, and then went back in the water. The whole thing was over and done with in about two minutes. The Geese were not too happy.
Little escape artist
Early juvenile
This creek is considered to have McCloud River Rainbows, Oncorhynchus mykiss stonei
While fishing, I observed a spawning aggregation of blue sucker immediately below Barkley Dam near Grand Rivers, KY. They were visibly spawning near the shoreline over large rip-rap. The rocks were covered with their eggs.
This rock was flipped as part of a stream invertebrate survey. A very flustered male fantail darter was under it, presumably the father guarding his eggs. He returned to his lookout position shortly after we returned the rock.
Specimens were wild caught, photos were after specimens were vouchered for research purposes. Caught in 2015 while community sampling mid-sized rivers of Missouri.
3rd photo is close up comparison with Bluntnose Minnow on the left.
4th photo is close up comparison with Bluntnose Minnow on the right.
Inner lining of body cavity silver, upper lip considerably thickened at midline.
Two spawning males
Thought I lost these photos from last year! Glad I found ‘em. This is a hybrid lepomid. I’m as certain as certain can be without a DNA test that this is an F1 wargreen (L. cyanellus x L. gulosus). It’s likeness is also very similar to this hybrid type published in Childer’s Hybridization of Four Species of Sunfishes - 1967. Caught from the rocks along the shore.
The mouth size remains very large, the pectoral fin does not even extend to the posterior edge of the eye, and the gill rakers remain long and thin as is seen on both parent species. The first two traits would usually be smaller (more intermediate) if hybridization with another lepomid had occurred.
The dorsal spines remain short, which is typical of both parent species but more so on green sunfish. The dark mottling in the median fins is very warmouth-like and the orange-white margins on the median fins is very green-like.
The dark radiating lines from the eye that are typical on a warmouth are a bit confused and mashed together. No well-developed tooth patch was on the tongue like is seen on warmouth, but that has been documented as common when warmouth hybridize with other lepomids.
11.9 cm TL. 3 anal spines, 9 anal rays, 10 dorsal spines, 9 dorsal rays, & 13 pectoral rays (L). The low anal ray and dorsal ray counts match well for green and warmouth.
Released after photos.
First tippecanoe ever recorded from this river, led to their discovery all the way into Danville, the first records for the state of Illinois!
so awesome to watch it ~6ft below my hole as it sniffed my bait!
A silver pike is a phase of a northern pike. It is not albino it has a rare scale coloring.
I caught this a few years back. This Ghost Shiner was vouchered and verified by Missouri's state ichthyologist.
In this particular system Ghost Shiner are extremely rare and had not been documented for about 30 years.
Also included side by side photos with Mimic Shiner. Notice how much more fain the pigmentation is on the Ghost Shiner
Grotto sculpin, Cottus specus