Thornapple River Fishes

Fish Entrainment Sampling List

Species captured in tailrace nets at the LaBarge Hydroelectric project from July, 1993 through March 1994.

Caledonia, Michigan USA

Courtesy of Commonwealth Power Company

Okemos, Michigan

FISH SPECIES OF THE THORNAPPLE RIVER

COMMON NAME_____________________SCIENTIFIC NAME

1. American brook lamprey________________________Lethenteron lamotteni
2. Black bullhead________________________________Ameiurus melas
3. Black crappie_________________________________Pomoxis nigromaculatus
4. Blacknose dace________________________________Rhinichthys atruatulus
5. Blackside darter_______________________________Percina maculata
6. Bluegill______________________________________Lepomis macrochirus
7. Bluntnose minnow_____________________________Pimephales notatus
8. Bowfin_____________________________________Amia calva
9. Brook stickleback______________________________Culaia inconstans
10. Brook trout__________________________________Salvalinus fontinalis
11. Brown bullhead________________________________Ameiurus nebulosus
12. Brown trout___________________________________Salmo trutta
13. Carp________________________________________Cyprinus carpio
14. Channel catfish________________________________Ictalurus punctatus
15. Chestnut lamprey_______________________________Ichthyomyzon castaneus
16. Central muckminnow_____________________________Umbra limi
17. Central stoneroller_______________________________Campostoma anomalum
18. Common shiner_________________________________Luxilus cornutus
19. Creek chub____________________________________Semotilus atromaculatus
20. Fathead minnow________________________________Pimephales promelas
21. Golden redhorse________________________________Moxostoma erythrurum
22. Golden shiner__________________________________Notemigonus crysoleucas
23. Green sunfish__________________________________Lepomis cyanellus
24. Johnny darter__________________________________Etheostoma nigrum
25. Largemouth bass_______________________________Micropterus salmoides
26. Logperch_____________________________________Percina caprodes
27. Longnose gar__________________________________Lepisosteus osseus
28. Northern hogsucker_____________________________Hypentelium nigricans
29. Northern pike__________________________________Esox lucius
30. Northern redbelly dace___________________________Chosomus eos
31. Pumpkinseed__________________________________Lepomis gibbosus
32. Rainbow darter_________________________________Etheostoma caeruleum
33. Rainbow trout__________________________________Salmo gairdneri
34. River chub_____________________________________Nocomis micropogon
35. Rock bass_____________________________________Ambloplites rupestris
36. Rosyface shiner_________________________________Notropis rubellus
37. Shorthead redhorse______________________________Moxostoma macrolepidotum
38. Smallmouth bass________________________________Micropterus dolomiew
39. Spottail shiner__________________________________Notropis hudsonius
40. Tadpole madtom________________________________Noturus gyrinus
41. unknown crappie________________________________Pomoxis spp.
42. unknown redhorse_______________________________Moxostoma spp.
43. unknown shiner_________________________________Notopis spp.
44. unknown sunfish________________________________Lepomis spp.
45. Walleye_______________________________________Stizostedion vitreum
46. Warmouth______________________________________Lepomis gulosus
47. White sucker____________________________________Catostomus commersoni
48. Yellow perch___________________________________Perca flavescens

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