ID help on FL native Fish please

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AFRO-thunder

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Hey guys,

I am just sorting out the pics I took during my Florida trip last week. While snorkeling in several springs and waterbodies I found some fish I couldn't identify - especially the sunfish are hard to distinguish.

Do you have any ideas what these fish are?


ID please 1a von stephan_raniceps auf Flickr


ID please 1b von stephan_raniceps auf Flickr



ID please 2 von stephan_raniceps auf Flickr



ID (exact species) please von stephan_raniceps auf Flickr



ID please von stephan_raniceps auf Flickr



verification please von stephan_raniceps auf Flickr


Thanks,

Stephan
 
I'm pretty sure the first two pictures are Common darters. I love those fish. I miss mine that I picked out of a feeder tank.

Its called: Etheostoma olmstedi or Tessellated Darter
 
AFRO-thunder;4417297; said:
darter of some sort? looks like some Percina sp.


same as above



not sure some sort of cyprinid



not sure which lepomis, could be L. macrochirus purpurescens



some kind of poeciliidae



top fish is a Pomoxis, the bottoms look like maybe Campostama or Phenacobius? it is another cyprinidae though
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im assuming these are all freshwater fish? if so my guesses are above each picture :D not to familiar with florida native fish
 
Thanks for your input, guys. Yes, they are all freshwater fish. The thing is that I quickly found out which "general kind" they are, meaning I know the genus of most fish, but the exact species identification is pretty hard...
 
AFRO-thunder;4417416; said:
Thanks for your input, guys. Yes, they are all freshwater fish. The thing is that I quickly found out which "general kind" they are, meaning I know the genus of most fish, but the exact species identification is pretty hard...
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what aprt of FL? i took a class on IDing native GA fish with a key and by sight, some cyprinids can be difficult as well as darters.
 
the darters are from Juniper springs (in the spring run), the rest is from Alexander springs - both are located in the Ocala National Forest.
 
The first two photos are swamp darters, Etheostoma fusiforme

The third is a school of ironcolor shiners Notropis chalybaeus

The fourth is a bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus

The fifth are bluefin killifish Lucania goodei

The top one in the sixth is a black crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus, and I haven't seen the bottom fish before, but it is a cyprinid. Maybe a chub or something.
 
thanks for all the help!

@Pomatomus: Do you really think the fish in pic number 5 are the same species? I have already ID'd the striped specimens as Lucania goodei (which can be seen in the bottom part of the pic). I have also read that the females don't have color in their anal and dorsal fins, but the plain yellow one seems like a separate species to me?
 
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