Hi all, I'm a new member from just outside Charlotte, NC. I've recently stumbled across this website looking for care on darters, and figured it'd be good to join. I've actually never fished in my life (aside from catching Gambusia from the creek in the backyard when I was little) and have never really bothered to learn aquatic species until I started keeping aquariums. I've recently gained an interest in natives and I'm always down for learning new species.
New Member from NC
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Posted 14 November 2017 - 01:11 PM
Welcome! NC has great fish diversity, including many small species suitable for tank keeping. Here's a link to NC-DWR's fish species list by river basin:
https://deq.nc.gov/a...indigenous-fish
And good timing too: the next NANFA annual convention will be in northeast GA in early June 2018. The convention moves to different states every year, so we're lucky to have it so close in 2018.
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
#5
Posted 14 November 2017 - 03:21 PM
Our current NANFA Prez, Fritz (Fred) Rohde is senior author of Freshwater Fishes of SC (USC Press, 2009). Most of what you'll find around Charlotte also occurs in SC, except speckled killifish, maybe a few others. There's a Freshwater Fishes of NC book too (1991), with ID keys, range maps, and line drawings, but names are a bit outdated and it doesn't include much biology info.
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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