FISH LIST: SOUTHEAST SAN FRANCISCO BAY


Name and Description
Island Silverside 
Menidia beryllina
Sacramento Sucker
Catostomus occidentalis

A common bottom feeder found in Alameda Creek in Sunol park.  

Green Sunfish
Lepomis cyanellus
Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
Smallmouth Bass
Micropterus dolomieu
Largemouth Bass
Micropterus salmoides
Prickly Sculpin
Cottus asper
Hitch
Lavina exilicanda

This type of fish is grey steel blue on top and dull silver on the bottom. Generally found in small warm intermittent streams.  May be found in isolated pools in large numbers due to their tolerance of relatively high temperatures and low oxygen levels. Will hybridize with California Roach.

California Roach
Lavina symmetricus

This type of fish is grey steel blue on top and dull silver on the bottom. Generally found in small warm intermittent streams.  May be found in isolated pools in large numbers due to their tolerance of relatively high temperatures and low oxygen levels.  Will hybridize with the Hitch.

Golden Shiner
Notemigonus crysoleucas
Sacramento Blackfish
Orthodon microlepdotus
Sacramento pike-minnow
Ptychocheilus grandis

A large predatory fish formerly known as the squawfish.

Rainwater Killifish
Lucania parva
Three-spine Stickleback
Gasterosteus aculeatus
Bigscale Logperch
Percina macrolepita
Western Mosquito fish
Gambusia affinis
Rainbow Trout/ Steelhead Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Pacific Lamprey
Lampetra tridentata
Sacramento Perch
Archoplites interruptus
Tule Perch
Hysterocarpus traski

 

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