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This small, rare perch lives in shallow, spring branches and spring-fed creeks with sandy bottoms and mats of watercress.

This invasive Asian carp is not as frequent a jumper as its cousin, the silver carp, but it also leaps from the water when disturbed, threatening boaters' safety.

This catfish is also known as mud cat, black catfish, yellow belly bullhead and horned pout.

Also called "papermouth, "bachelor perch" or just "crappie," this popular panfish is deep bodied and strongly compressed laterally (slab-sided). The sides are silver with an irregular pattern of dark speckles. The upper jaw is long, reaching past the middle of the eye.