.

Known Fishes

in the

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Native fishes (25 known species, arranged by Family)

Exotic fishes (8 known species, arranged by Family)

Lepisosteus (gars) Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) Amiidae (bowfin) Bowfin (Amia calva) Cyprinidae (minnows, barbs, carps) Golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) Catostomidae (suckers) Lake chubsucker (Erimyzon sucetta) Ictaluridae (North American freshwater catfishes) Brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) Yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis) Aphredoderidae (pirate perch) Pirate perch (Aphredoderus sayanus) Atherinidae (silversides) Brook silverside (Labidesthes sicculus) Fundulidae Bluefin killifish (Lucania goodei) Golden topminnow (Fundulus chrysotus) Marsh killifish (Fundulus confluentus) Poeciliidae (live bearers) Eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) Sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna) Least killifish (Heterandria formosa) Cyprinodontidae (pupfishes) Flagfish (Jordanella floridae) Centrarchidae (sunfishes, black basses) Bluespotted sunfish (Enneacanthus gloriosus) Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) Dollar sunfish (Lepomis marginatus) Spotted sunfish (Lepomis punctatus) Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus) Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) Redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) Percidae (darters, perches) Swamp darter (Etheostoma fusiforme) Elassomatidae (pygmy sunfishes) Everglades pygmy sunfish (Elassoma evergladei)

Clariidae (air-breathing catfishes) Walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) Callichthyidae (callichthyid armored catfishes) Brown hoplo (Hoplosternum littorale) Loricariidae (suckermouth armored catfishes) Sailfin catfish (Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus) Cichlidae (cichlids) Black acara (Cichlasoma bimaculatum) Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus) Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) Spotted tilapia (Tilapia mariae) Blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus)