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TABLE 11-2. LIST OF FINFISH SPECIES COLLECTED IN NEW HAVEN HARBOR, APRIL 



1970 THROUGH OCTOBER 1977. NEW HAVEN HARBOR ECOLOGICAL STUDIES 

 SUMMARY REPORT, 1979. 



PHYLUM: CHORDATA 

 Subphylura: Vertebrata 

 Superclass: Pisces (Finfish) 



Acipenser spp.* Atlantic sturgeon 



Alosa aestivalis - Blueback herring 



Alosa mediocris - Hickory shad 



Alosa pseudoharengus - Alewife 



Alosa sapidissima - American shad 



Ainmodytes americanus - American sand lance 



Anchoa hepsetus - Striped anchovy 



Anchoa mitchilli - Bay anchovy 



Anguilla rostrata - American eel 



Apeltes guadracus - Fourspine stickleback 



Archosargus probatocephalus - Sheepshead 



Brevoortia tyrannus - Atlantic menhaden 



Caranx crysos - Blue runner 



Caranx hippos - Crevalle jack 



Centropristes striatus - Black sea bass 



Citharichthys arctifrons - Gulf stream flounder 



Clupea harengus - Atlantic herring 



Conger oceanicus - Conger eel 



Cyclopterus lumpus - L\impfish 



Cynoscion regalis - Weak fish 



Cyprinodon variegatus - Sheepshead minnow 



Enchelyopus cimbrius - Fourbeard rockling 



Etropus microstomus - Smallmouth Flounder 



Fundulus heteroclitus - Mummichog 



Fundulus ma j alls - Striped killifish 



Gadus morhua - Atlantic cod 



Gasterosteus aculeatus - Threespine stickleback 



Gobiosoma ginsburgi - Seaboard goby 



Leiostomus xanthurus - Spot 



Limanda ferruginea - Yellowtail 



Liparis spp.** - Sea snail 



Melanogrammus aeglefinus - Haddock j 



Menidia beryllina - Tidewater silverside ^ 



Menidia menidia - Atlantic silverside 



Menticirrhus saxatilis - Northern kingfish 



Merluccius bilinearis - Silver hake 



Microgadus tomcod - Atlantic tomcod 



Micropogon undulatus - Croaker 



Morone americana - White perch 



Morone saxatilis - Striped bass 





