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Freshwater fish are fish species that spend some or all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less than 1.05%. These environments differ from marine habitats in many ways, especially the difference in levels of osmolarity .
List of freshwater aquarium fish species. A vast number of freshwater species have successfully adapted to live in aquariums. This list gives some examples of the most common species found in home aquariums.
The freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, is a fish endemic to North and Central America. It is the only species in the genus Aplodinotus, and is a member of the family Sciaenidae. It is the only North American member of the group that inhabits freshwater for its entire life.
Freshwater fish of the United States — species native to rivers, lakes, streams, and ephemeral waters within the U.S.
The walleye ( Sander vitreus, synonym Stizostedion vitreum ), also called the walleyed pike [3], yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, [4] is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European zander, also known as the pikeperch.
Centrarchidae, better known as sunfishes, is a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes (formerly belonging to the deprecated order Centrarchiformes), native only to North America.
The sauger (Sander canadensis) is a freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae that resembles its close relative, the walleye. The species is a member of the largest vertebrate order, the Perciformes. It is the most migratory percid species in North America.
American paddlefish are among the largest and longest-lived freshwater fishes in North America. They have a shark-like body, average 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length, weigh 27 kg (60 lb), and can live in excess of thirty years. For most populations the median age is five to eight years and the maximum age is fourteen to eighteen years.
Lake whitefish. Lampetra ayresii. Largescale stoneroller. Laurel dace. List of fishes of Florida. Little Colorado spinedace. Longear sunfish. Longnose dace. Longnose gar.
Genus: Hucho. Species: H. hucho. Binomial name. Hucho hucho. ( Linnaeus, 1758) The huchen ( Hucho hucho) ( / ˈhuːxən /, from German ), also known as Danube salmon or redfish ( German: Rotfisch ), is a large species of freshwater fish in the family Salmonidae native to the Danube basin in Central and Eastern Europe.