Table 6-5. Coitunon and Scientific Names and Biological Characteristics of 

 Some Typical :iaine Stream Fishes 



Common name 



Taxonomic name 



Life 

 cycle' 



Spawning 

 site^ 



Food^ 



Lampreys 



Sea lamprey 



Petromyzon marinus 



D-P 



Sturgeons 



Atlantic sturgeon 



Acipenser oxyrhynchus 



Herrings 

 Alewif e 

 American shad 



Salmon ids 



Atlantic salmon 

 Landlocked salmon 

 Brown trout 

 Rainbow trout 

 Brook trout 



Smelt 



Rainbow smelt 



Suckers 



White sucker 

 Longnose sucker 



Minnows 



Longnose dace 

 Blacknose dace 

 Finescale dace 

 Pearl dace 

 Fallfish 

 Creek chub 

 Golden shiner 

 Common shiner 

 Blacknose shiner 

 Bridled shiner 



Alosa pseudoharengus 

 Alosa sapid issima 



Salmo salar 



Salmo salar sebago 



Salmo trutta 



Salmo gairdneri 



Salvelinus fontinalis 



Osmerus mordax 



Catastomus commersoni 



^A - anadromous; C - catadromous; R - resident; L - lake run. 



^G - gravel; S - sand; V - vegetation; Db - debris; PL - palustrine or 



lacustrine. 

 •^D - detritus; P - parasite on fishes; I - invertebrates; F - fishes; 



indicates change as fishes grow. 



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