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| lampreys (freshwater/marine) |
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Petromyzontidae, Western Brook Lamprey
(Must know on site)
(Freshwater) |
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| shortnose chimearas (marine) |
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skates (marine)
look like rays |
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poachers (marine)
-lg. "webbed" looking fins
-tentacle like things around mouth |
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wolffishes (marine)
-looks like eels from the Little Mermaid |
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tubesnouts (marine)
-little flute like fishies
-dorsal fin more posterior
-small finlet like projections in front |
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sunfishes and black basses (freshwater)
- fairly flat looking
- hard to distinguish |
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herrings (freshwater/marine)
-mouth is upward (top)
- silvery bottom
-red/brown top
- forked caudal |
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| sculpins (freshwater/marine) |
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| torrent sculpin (freshwater) |
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Staghorn sculpin (marine)
obvious antler like projection on gills |
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lumpsucker (marine)
round with cone like plates on skin |
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minnows and carps (freshwater)
-paired pelvic & pectoral fins (?)
-diverse, some little w/ inferior mouth
-others have shiny scales |
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Shiner perch (marine)
-darker, fused dorsal fin |
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anchovies (marine)
-huge eyes
-inferior mouth
-forked caudal |
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topminnows (freshwater)
-tiny
-stripes on back |
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cods (marine)
-larger eyes
-pale colouring |
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sticklebacks (freshwater/marine)
-prickly spine fins |
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three-spined Stickleback (freshH2O/marine)
-small
-obvious "stickles" |
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gobies (freshwater/marine)
-large face (looking from underside)
-dorsal fin: underneath and fused |
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laternfish (marine)
-really ugly
-obvious spots/large pores |
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smelts (marine)
-obvious stripe down side
-light gray top, line, white belly |
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Pericdae,
Perca flavescens |
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yellow perch (freshwater)
-2 sections of dorsal fin
-yellowish |
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gunnels (marine)
-weird neck lump
-blunt face
-elongated body |
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righteye flounders (marine)
-two eyes on side of body |
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salmons and trouts (freshwater/marine)
-look like salmon :-P |
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scorpionfishes/rockfishes (marine)
-big, ugly
-reddish |
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pricklebacks (marine)
-elongate body
-dorsal fin all the way down body |
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pipefishes (marine)
-narrow mouth
-rounded dorsal fin on middle of body
-small anal fin (adipose fin?) |
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eelpouts (marine)
-barbel-like projections at base of head
-pale, ugly |
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