Calling all gurus...
#1
Posted 04 May 2014 - 04:35 PM
My id-ing has been pretty poor of late, so I'm swallowing most of my pride and putting most of the stuff I sampled today up here.
The following are from Rocky Creek, (Santee drainage) behind the mall in Greenwood, SC. It is a small, shallow stream, much of it channelized just adjacent to where these were taken...
Snail bullhead, Ameiurus brunneus, correct?
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Hybopsis rubrifrons, H. hypsinotus, or both? Cain't see no barbels; and colors, body shapes, and snouts were all over the place.
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I really want to call the sunnie closest to the tip of my index finger a Lepomis marginatus; which although highly unlikely is not impossible based on range. The earflap, headshape, blue-dot belly stripes, and size of mouth are what's causing me to mis-id this 42-almond hybrid.
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Biggest tads I've ever seen. Could be a meal for a human,almost. Rana catesbeiana?
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These are from Big Curltail Creek, Abbeville County, SC. One stream, but also one drainage over. BCC is in the Savannah drainage.
Noturus insignis or N. leptacanthus? Barbel length and pattern seem no-doubt insignis, but body shape, especially from above (even in a crappy pic)and close examination shows tons of tiny insignis-like specks; but I suspect those tiny specks are me overconcentrating on the pigment of the fish...
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Notropis chlorolutimolliepleasepublishsoonae? (By drainage they "have to be" lutipinnis.)
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Gotta be Hypentelium nigricans, right? Was really reddish when it came out of the water, and the head from above doesn't seem right, though...
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Sasquatch, sbtgrfan?
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Thanks for the help. I'm needing it today...
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#2 Guest_sbtgrfan_*
Posted 04 May 2014 - 05:31 PM
Hard to tell on your Hybopsis series. Rosyface would have barbels, however, and I don't see any.
I'm not even going to try with the sunfish because I know I'll get it wrong!
Your madtom from Big Curltail I'd call a margined. Speckled madtoms, at least from what I've seen, always be speckled like the picture in the fishes of SC book.
Awesome to see the yellow/green-finheads getting in color!
Definitely a northern hogsucker. Don't think we have anything else that has the saddles like that, unless the striped jumprocks do at some point?
A very sasquatchy looking picture, for sure!
#3 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 04 May 2014 - 05:48 PM
#4 Guest_fritz_*
Posted 04 May 2014 - 06:31 PM
all minnows appear to be rubrifrons (except the lutipinnis of course)
definitely a margined madtom
the Lepomis by your index finger is a redbreast, others may be bluegills.
most likely a bullfrog
and yes a northern hog sucker.
you will be freaking out at the convention with all the diversity
#5
Posted 04 May 2014 - 07:03 PM
phena-whats?Do you have a local phenacobias? The madtom looks like a margined.
Maybe these pics will help on the bullhead. They are such cute buggers!
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Fritz, my little pea-brain will probably explode at the convention. I mean, it can't even process redbreast sunnies...
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"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#6 Guest_sbtgrfan_*
Posted 04 May 2014 - 07:13 PM
Edited by sbtgrfan, 04 May 2014 - 07:35 PM.
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Posted 04 May 2014 - 07:15 PM
#8
Posted 04 May 2014 - 07:16 PM
Thanks for the definition, Michael. I won't ever compare you to Yankee soup again. At least not on the forum, too soon...
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#9 Guest_smbass_*
Posted 05 May 2014 - 07:34 AM
Phenacobius is a genus of minnow... and no, we don't have any in SC or most of Georgia (except for the Coosa drainage part of NW GA).
I collected some sort of Phenacobius in the Little TN River in Northern GA years ago. So maybe you have two species in GA.
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Posted 05 May 2014 - 08:37 AM
#11 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 05 May 2014 - 12:07 PM
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