Fish starting with K

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Lives among mangroves and spends much of its time above water on exposed surfaces.

A southeastern United States darter with a naturally limited freshwater range.

Native only to the New River drainage across North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.

Uses rocky creek and small-river pools together with nearby riffles.

A brook lamprey with a native range restricted to central California waterways.

An anchovy ranging from Florida through Caribbean waters toward Venezuela.

A deep-water cisco native to North America’s Great Lakes.

Favors rocky and sandy margins of the lakes where it lives.

A lamprey native to freshwater systems of southern Oregon and northern California.

Native to the Klamath River basin in southern Oregon and northern California.

A small-scaled sucker native to freshwater systems in Oregon and California.

A porgy of the tropical western Atlantic, caught in marine fisheries with nets and hook-and-line tackle.

A landlocked form of sockeye salmon that completes its life cycle in freshwater rather than migrating to the ocean.

A Hawaiian goatfish that often gathers beneath ledges or near corals by day, in lagoons and seaward reefs.