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Information about Tennessee's Reservoir and Big River Fishes
This page will be under revision as more information is gathered about the habits and life history of the various fishes. Most of the species informational links on this page are in PDF format and were borrowed from various sources. An attempt will be made to create Tennessee specific pages in HTML format as time permits and those links will be in bold letters.
Use the links in the table below or the following sites for species information: 1) Tennessee Animal Biographical System 2) Natureserve Explorer 3) Animal Diversity Web 4) Fishbase 5) Zipcode Zoo 6) Wikipedia
"The Fishes of Tennessee" by David Etnier and Wayne Starnes (University of Tennessee Press) is by far the best reference book available for those with an interest in learning more about our extremely diverse fish fauna.
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| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| alewife | Alosa pseudoharengus |
| alligator gar | Atractosteus spatula |
| American brook lamprey | Lampetra appendix |
| American eel | Anguilla rostrata |
| banded sculpin | Cottus carolinae |
| bigeye chub | Hybopsis amblops |
| bighead carp | Hypophthalmichthys nobilis |
| bigmouth buffalo | Ictiobus cyprinellus |
| black buffalo | Ictiobus niger |
| black bullhead | Ameiurus melas |
| black crappie | Pomoxis nigromaculatus |
| black redhorse | Moxostoma duquesnei |
| blueback herring | Alosa aestivalis |
| blue catfish | Ictalurus furcatus |
| bluegill | Lepomis macrochirus |
| blue sucker | Cycleptus elongatus |
| bluntnose minnow | Pimephales notatus |
| bowfin | Amia calva |
| brook silverside | Labidesthes sicculus |
| brown bullhead | Ameiurus nebulosus |
| brown trout | Salmo trutta |
| bullhead minnow | Pimephales vigilax |
| chain pickerel | Esox americanus |
| channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus |
| chestnut lamprey | Ichthyomyzon castaneus |
| common carp | Cyprinus carpio |
| dollar sunfish | Lepomis marginatus |
| emerald shiner | Notropis atherinoides |
| fathead minnow | Pimephales promelas |
| flathead catfish | Pylodictis olivaris |
| freshwater drum | Aplodinotus grunniens |
| flier | Centrarchus macropterus |
| gizzard shad | Dorosoma cepedianum |
| golden redhorse | Moxostoma erythurum |
| golden shiner | Notemigonus crysoleucas |
| goldeye | Hiodon alosoides |
| goldfish | Carassius auratus |
| grass carp | Ctenopharyngodon idella |
| grass pickerel | Esox americanus |
| greenside darter | Etheostomata blenniodes |
| green sunfish | Lepomis cyanellus |
| highfin carpsucker | Carpiodes velifer |
| inland silverside | Menidia beryllina |
| lake sturgeon | Acipenser fulvescens |
| lake trout | Salvelinus namaycush |
| largemouth bass | Micropterus salmoides |
| logperch | Percina caprodes |
| longear sunfish | Lepomis megalotis |
| longnose gar | Lepisosteus osseus |
| mooneye | Hiodon tergisus |
| mottled sculpin | Cottus bairdi |
| muskellunge | Esox masquinongy |
| northern hogsucker | Hypentelium nigricans |
| northern pike | Esox lucius |
| northern studfish | Fundulus catenatus |
| Ohio lamprey | Ichthyomyzon bdellium |
| orangespotted sunfish | Lepomis humilis |
| paddlefish | Polyodon spathula |
| pirate perch | Aphredoderus sayanus |
| pumpkinseed | Lepomis gibbosus |
| quillback carpsucker | Carpiodes cyprinus |
| rainbow trout | Oncorhynchus mykiss |
| redbreast sunfish | Lepomis auritus |
| redear sunfish | Lepomis microlophus |
| redeye "Coosa" bass | Micropterus coosae |
| river carpsucker | Carpiodes carpio |
| river darter | Percina shumardi |
| river chub | Nocomis micropogon |
| river redhorse | Moxostoma carinatum |
| rock bass | Ambloplites rupestris |
| sauger | Sander canadensis |
| sawfin shiner | Notropis sp. |
| shortnose gar | Lepisosteus platostomus |
| silver carp | Hypophthalmichthys molitrix |
| silver chub | Macrhybopsis storeriana |
| silver redhorse | Moxostoma anisurum |
| silver shiner | Notropis photogenis |
| skipjack herring | Alosa chrysochloris |
| smallmouth bass | Micropterus dolomieu |
| smallmouth buffalo | Ictiobus bubalus |
| smallmouth redhorse | Moxostoma breviceps |
| snubnose darter | Etheostoma simoterum |
| spotfin shiner | Cyprinella spiloptera |
| spotted bass | Micropterus punctulatus |
| spotted gar | Lepisosteus oculatus |
| spotted sucker | Minytrema melanops |
| spotted sunfish | Lepomis punctatus |
| steelcolor shiner | Cyprinella whipplei |
| striped bass | Morone saxatilis |
| striped mullet | Mugil cephalus |
| striped shiner | Luxilus chrysocephalus |
| telescope shiner | Notropis telescopus |
| threadfin shad | Dorosoma petenese |
| walleye | Sander vitreus |
| warmouth | Lepomis gulosus |
| warpaint shiner | Luxilus coccogenis |
| Western mosquitofish | Gambusia affinis |
| white bass | Morone chrysops |
| white catfish | Ameiurus catus |
| white crappie | Pomoxis annularis |
| white sucker | Catostomus commersoni |
| whitetail shiner | Cyprinella galactura |
| yellow bass | Morone mississippiensis |
| yellow bullhead | Amieurus natalis |
| yellow perch | Perca flavescens |
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