Caught from Horicon Lake in NJ. What a challenge... this is the smallest hook and line fish I have ever defeated!
I've read that swamp darters are present in Horicon Lake. Could it be?
Posted 28 March 2016 - 05:05 AM
Caught from Horicon Lake in NJ. What a challenge... this is the smallest hook and line fish I have ever defeated!
I've read that swamp darters are present in Horicon Lake. Could it be?
Posted 28 March 2016 - 08:22 AM
Posted 28 March 2016 - 09:23 AM
Thanks fundulus!
Posted 28 March 2016 - 11:30 AM
Yep, you have a swamp darter.
Dustin Smith
At the convergence of the Broad, Saluda and Congaree
Lexington, SC
Posted 28 March 2016 - 01:37 PM
Note how the lateral line arches upward on the front half of the body (3rd and 5th pix). That's a characteristic of the "Hololepis" group of darters, and swamp darter is the only one of that group that occurs in NJ.
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
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