TABLE 2. Species response to water year type. Number in paren¬ 
theses is that fish's rank in the fifteen most abundant 
species. 
Wet Response 
Fresh 
Threadfin shad 
Carp 
Prickly sculpin 
Anadromous 
White sturgeon 
Green sturgeon 
Steelhead 
Dry Response 
Sacramento squawfish 
Tuleperch 
Pacific lamprey 
Mixed Response 
Inland silverside 
Splittail 
White catfish 
American shad (14) 
King salmon 
Striped bass (5) 
Estuarine 
Threespine stickleback 
Yellowfin goby (10) 
Longfin smelt (2) 
Staghorn sculpin (8) 
Starry flounder (12) 
Marine-estuarine 
Pacific herring (3) 
Cheekspot goby 
Marine 
Leopard shark 
Pile perch 
Speckled sanddab (7) 
Diamond turbot 
Sand sole 
California tongue- 
fish 
Brown smoothound 
Spiny dogfish 
Pacific tomcod 
Topsmelt 
Showy snailfish 
Arrow goby 
Walleye surfperch (1) 
Bat ray 
Whitre seaperch 
Jacksmelt (13) 
Black perch 
Rubberlip seaperch 
Pacific butterfish 
Boneyhead sculpin 
Delta smelt 
Bay goby (11) 
White croaker (9) 
Northern anchovy 
Plainfin midshipman 
(15) 
Shiner perch (4) 
Night smelt 
Bay pipefish 
Barred surfperch 
Brown rockfish 
Lingcod 
English sole (6) 
Dwarf perch 
Big skate 
Surf smelt 
Curlfin turbot 
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