Fish starting with E

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Adults use sluggish stream pools, springs and backwaters; young fish also occupy tiny headwater channels.

Favors still or slow water with thick vegetation, including swamps, ponds and overgrown streams.

A northern darter found in Quebec and northeastern and north-central United States freshwater systems.

A minnow native to Atlantic-draining freshwater systems in the United States and Canada.

Lives in quiet pools of creeks and headwater streams, where currents are especially gentle.

Uses tropical and subtropical reefs and mangrove habitats.

Often shelters beneath large rocks in gravel-bottomed creeks and small rivers with gentle flow.

Favors warm, weedy lakes and slow rivers with soft bottoms.

Native to northern and eastern Kentucky and neighboring northeastern Tennessee.

Schools near the surface while feeding on tiny crustaceans and insects.

A fantail darter form associated with Atlantic-draining freshwater systems, including Virginia’s James River.

Lives in creeks and rivers with rocky beds, including gravel, cobbles and boulders.

Feeds on plankton, small crustaceans, fish eggs and insect larvae.

A tiny sunfish native to the southeastern United States, particularly associated with Florida’s freshwater habitats.

Uses sandy flats around patch reefs, often near coral rubble or seagrass.

Occupies lagoons, reefs and reef slopes, including nearby sandy, rocky and rubble-covered bottoms.