Went collecting in a small stream just outside Atlanta and found these guys. Also got some spotfin shiners.
Can anyone ID these?
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Top ones look like some type of Fundulus species and while the bottom one looks like a NHS I don't think they're native to Atlanta.
Dont know much about Fundulus sps. so I couldn't tell you. Looks like a northern hog sucker but they're not present down there.
From pictures it looks to be one. According to some sources online though it is native to Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma up to Minnesota. So I guess it is possible it made it's way in to Georgia...
So I contacted the USGS because when I found the info page on NHS and found their range, it was last updated in 2013 to say they were not in the Chattahoochee drainage (where I'm located). I just sent them pictures to confirm ID, but the person I'm emailing seems to confirm they were not originally thought to be in this area. I helped science!
Its a Southern Studfish, not a Northern Studfish. Southern Studfish has irregular spots where Northern Studfish has straight rows of spots.