This experience has made me realize that for IDing live fish, the "Fishes of
Alabama" book is the best. Page & Burr's book is good too, but some of the
fish illustrations just don't convey all the information that you would hope
for. And also I realize that the biology of many of these fishes is poorly
known; not just their spawning habits (work for an army of graduate
students) but even their size ranges. And "the book" also says that some
species "almost exclusively" inhabit large rivers and streams, species such
as speckled chub and channel shiner. The Scottsboro site looks like a
drainage ditch at first glance; but, it _is_ connected to the Tennessee not
so far away.
--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL
>One possibility is Notropis wickliffi. I got some on the Elk River a little
>while ago that were huge - probably 75-80mm TL.
>
>Good luck,
>Dave
>
>>The other one from the same riffle as
>>the speckled chub still puzzles me. I think it's also a Sawfin, but it's
>>larger than others I've seen; same form, coloration, position of fins
>>(from
>>what I can observe) but about 50% larger than Sawfins should be by my
>>understanding. I have to go look deeply at him again today or tomorrow.
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