Wildlife and Wildflowers of Texas - Fish
Golden Shiner
The golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) is a cyprinid fish native to eastern North America. It is the sole member of its genus. Much used as a bait fish, it is probably the most widely pond-cultured fish in the United States. It can be found in Quebec and its French name is "Mené jaune" or "Chatte de l'Est".
Texas Shiner
The Texas shiner (Notropis amabilis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is found in the Colorado River to Rio Grande drainage from Texas and northeastern Mexico and the Rio Salado and Rio San Juan systems in Mexico to the lower Pecos River in Texas.
Blackspot shiner
The blackspot shiner (Notropis atrocaudalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the cyprinid genus Notropis. It is endemic to the United States and found in the lower Brazos River drainage of eastern Texas east to the Calcasieu River drainage of southwestern Louisiana and the Red River drainage of southeastern Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern ...more ↓
Smalleye Shiner
The smalleye shiner (Notropis buccula) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family (carps and minnows). It is found only in the upper Brazos River basin of Texas, which includes the Double Mountain and Salt forks of the upper Brazos. It became a candidate for federal listing as an endangered species of the United States in 2013.
Ghost Shiner
The ghost shiner (Notropis buchanani) is a North American species of freshwater fish belonging to the Cyprinidae family. It is generally characterized as being a small bodied, silvery and fusiform shaped cyprinid. Notropis buchanani is morphologically similar to and often mistaken for the Mimic Shiner (Notropis volucellus), which is evident by its former ...more ↓
Ironcolor Shiner
The ironcolor shiner (Notropis chalybaeus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae, the minnows and carps. It is a widespread species in streams and rivers in eastern North America.
Sharpnose Shiner
The sharpnose shiner (Notropis oxyrhynchus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is endemic to Texas in the United States, where it is limited to the upper Brazos River basin. In 2013 it became a candidate for federal listing as an endangered species of the United States.
Chub Shiner
The chub shiner (Notropis potteri) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. it is found in the Brazos River drainage of Texas and Red River drainage of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. It is also found in limited areas of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, and in lower parts of the Colorado River and Galveston Bay drainages.
Silverband Shiner
The silverband shiner (Notropis shumardi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is endemic to the United States, where it is found in the Mississippi River and main tributaries in lower Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana to Illinois and South Dakota, and several Gulf slope drainages.
Sand Shiner
The sand shiner (Notropis stramineus) is a widespread North American species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. Sand shiners live in open clear water streams with sandy bottoms where they feed in schools on aquatic and terrestrial insects, bottom ooze and diatoms.
Weed Shiner
The weed shiner, Notropis texanus, is a North American species of freshwater fish in the cyprinid genus Notropis. Prior to 1958, this species was named Notropis roseus.
Fathead Minnow
The fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) is a species of temperate freshwater fish belonging to the Pimephales genus of the cyprinid family. The natural geographic range extends throughout much of North America, from central Canada south along the Rockies to Texas, and east to Virginia and the Northeastern United States. This minnow has also been introduced to many other ...more ↓
Bullhead Minnow
Pimephales vigilax, also known as the bullhead minnow, is a species of freshwater demersal fish, native to the Southern United States.
Creek Chub
Semotilus atromaculatus, known as the creek chub or the common creek chub, is a small minnow, a freshwater fish found in the eastern US and Canada. Differing in size and color depending on origin of development, the creek chub can usually be defined by a dark brown body with a white lateral line spanning horizontally across the body. It lives primarily within ...more ↓
Central Stoneroller
The central stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum) is a fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to the United States.
Plateau Shiner
The Plateau shiner (Cyprinella lepida) is a species of fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is endemic to the United States, where it occurs on the Edwards Plateau in Texas where it inhabits the upper Guadalupe and Nueces River drainages.
Red Shiner
The red shiner or red-horse minnow (Cyprinella lutrensis) is a North American species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are deep-bodied and laterally compressed, and can grow to about three inches in length. For most of the year, both males and females have silver sides and whitish abdomens. Males in breeding coloration, though, have iridescent ...more ↓
Western Blacktail Shiner
The blacktail shiner (Cyprinella venusta) is a small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to the United States.
Roundnose Minnow
The roundnose minnow (Dionda episcopa) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in the Colorado, San Antonio, upper Nueces and Rio Grande drainages in Texas and New Mexico in the United States, and Mexico.
Guadalupe Roundnose Minnow
The Guadalupe roundnose minnow (Dionda nigrotaeniata) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in the Colorado and San Antonio Rivers in Texas.
Nueces Roundnose Minnow
The Nueces roundnose minnow (Dionda serena) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the upper Nueces in Texas.
Cypress Minnow
The common name of Hybognathus hayi is the cypress minnow. It was first described by Jordan in 1885. It is one of the 324 fish species found in Tennessee.
Plains Minnow
The plains minnow (Hybognathus placitus) is one of the 324 fish species found in Tennessee.
Pallid Shiner
The pallid shiner (Hybopsis amnis) is a small freshwater minnow in the family Cyprinidae. Its synonym is Notropis amnis. They are native to North America and can be found in the Mississippi watershed. The pallid shiner is considered a rare fish in its northern distribution but not in its southern distribution. The pallid shiner was first discovered in the early 1900s in ...more ↓
Burrhead Chub
The burrhead chub (Macrhybopsis marconis) is a freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It occurs in the Colorado, Guadalupe, and San Antonio river drainages in Texas. Its preferred habitat is sand and gravel runs of small to large rivers.
Silver Chub
The silver chub (Macrhybopsis storeriana) is a species of freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae found in North America.
Pugnose Minnow
Opsopoeodus emiliae (common name pugnose minnow) is a species of cyprinid fish found in the eastern North America. There are two recognized subspecies with the subspecies from Florida recognized as race peninsularis.
Suckermouth Minnow
Phenacobius mirabilis, or the suckermouth minnow, is a North American cyprinid fish, where it occurs in the Mississippi River basin from Ohio and West Virginia to Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, and from southeastern Minnesota to northern Alabama and southern Oklahoma. It also occurs in the western Lake Erie drainage in Ohio.
Blue Sucker
The blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) is a freshwater species of fish in the sucker family. The species has an average weight of 2-3 kilograms and an average length of 76 centimeters. The record length has been recorded at 102 centimeters.
Eastern Creek Chubsucker
The creek chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus) is a freshwater fish of the sucker family (Catostomidae).
Lake Chubsucker
The lake chubsucker (Erimyzon sucetta) is a freshwater fish endemic to North America, being found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River basin, as far north as Ontario, Canada, extending south to the Gulf of Mexico. It is mostly found in lakes, ponds, and swamps, rarely in streams. It is a freshwater fish, and intermediate level consumer as it feeds on benthic detritus. ...more ↓
Gray Redhorse
The gray redhorse (Moxostoma congestum) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Catostomidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States.
Blacktail Redhorse
The blacktail redhorse (Moxostoma poecilurum) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Moxostoma. The blacktail redhorse occupies North America, being located throughout Mississippi River tributaries on the former Mississippi Embayment, ranging from Southern Kentucky to Galveston Bay in Texas.
Spotted Sucker
The spotted sucker (Minytrema melanops) is a species of sucker (fish) that is native to eastern North America. The spotted sucker inhabits deep pools of small to medium rivers over clay, sand or gravel. They are occasionally found in creeks and large rivers. Through its life stages, the spotted sucker goes from a mid-depth predator to a bottom forager. Spotted suckers have a ...more ↓
River Carpsucker
The river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio) is a freshwater fish found in the eastern United States. This species has a slightly arched back and is somewhat stout and compressed. While the fins are usually opaque, in older fish they may be dark yellow. It is distributed along the Mississippi River basin from Pennsylvania to Montana. The river carpsucker, like other suckers, is a ...more ↓
Smallmouth Buffalo
The smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus, from the Greek for "bull-fish" and "buffalo") is a Cypriniformes fish species found in the major tributaries and surrounding waters of the Mississippi River in the United States as well as some other water systems where it has been introduced. It is a stocky fish like its relatives the bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) and ...more ↓
