Kern County Fish Checklist 

Kern County Illustrated Fish Checklist

Total Orders 9, Families 14, Species 45, subspecies 3, introduced species 29, extinct 1, extirpated 3

(X) = extinct (E) = endangered species (T) = threatened species (SC) = species of concern (eX) = extirpated (I) = introduced

  ORDER PETROMYZONTIFORMES Family PETROMYZONTIDAE - lampreys
  Kern brook lamprey (SC) Lampetra hubbsi
  ORDER CLUPEIFORMES Family CLUPEIDAE - herrings and shads
  threadfin shad (I) Dorosoma petenense
  ORDER CYPRINIFORMES Family CYPRINIDAE - Minnows and carp
  goldfish (I) Carassius auratus
  common carp (I) Cyprinus carpio
  Mohave Tui Chub (E) Gila bicolor mohavensis
  thicktail chub (X) Gila crassicauda
  California roach Hesperoleucus symmetricus
  speckled dace Rhinichthys osculus
  Sacramento splittail (eX) Pogonichthys macrolepidotus
  hitch Lavinia exilicauda
  hardhead (SC) Mylopharodon conocephalus
  golden shiner (I) Notemigonus crysoleucas
  red shiner (I) Cyprinella lutrensis
  Sacramento blackfish Orthodon microlepidotus
  fathead minnow (I) Pimephales promelas
  Sacramento pike minnow (squawfish) Ptychocheilus grandis
    Family CATOSTOMIDAE - suckers
  Sacramento sucker Catostomus occidentalis
  ORDER SILURIFORMES Family ICTALURIDAE - bullhead catfishes
  white catfish (I) Ameiurus catus
  black bullhead (I) Ameiurus melas
  brown bullhead (I) Ameiurus nebulosus
  blue catfish (I) Ictalurus furcatus
  channel catfish (I) Ictalurus punctatus
  ORDER SALMONIFORMES Family SALMONIDAE - trout
  rainbow trout (I) Oncorhynchus mykiss
  Kern golden trout (Kern River rainbow trout) (SC) Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti
  California golden trout Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita
  Little Kern golden trout (T) Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei
  brown trout (I) Salmo trutta
  brook trout (I) Salvelinus fontinalis
  ORDER CYPRINODONTIFORMES FAMILY POECILIIDAE - livebearers
  western mosquitofish  (I) Gambusia affinis
    Family ATHERINIDAE - silversides
  inland silverside (I) Menidia beryllina
  ORDER GASTEROSTEIFORMES Family GASTEROSTEIDAE - sticklebacks
  threespine stickleback (Alaskan stickleback) Gasterosteus aculeatus
  ORDER SCORPAENIFORMES Family COTTIDAE - sculpins
  prickly sculpin Cottus asper
  riffle sculpin Cottus gulosus
  ORDER PERCIFORMES Family PERCICHTHYIDAE - temperate basses
  white bass (I) Morone chrysops
  striped bass (I) Morone saxatilis
    Family CENTRARCHIDAE – sunfishes
  Sacramento perch (eX) Archoplites interruptus
  green sunfish (I) Lepomis cyanellus
  pumpkinseed (I) Lepomis gibbosus
  warmouth (I) Chaenobryttus gulosus
  bluegill (I) Lepomis macrochirus
  redear sunfish (I) Lepomis microlophus
  smallmouth bass (I) Micropterus dolomieu
  spotted bass (I) Micropterus punctulatus
  largemouth bass (I) Micropterus salmoides
  white crappie (I) Pomoxis annularis
  black crappie (I) Pomoxis nigromaculatus
    FAMILY PERCIDAE - perches
  bigscale logperch (I) Percina macrolepida
    FAMILY EMBIOTOCIDAE - surfperches
  tule perch (eX) Hysterocarpus traskii

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Recommended Reading

Freshwater Fishes: North America North of Mexico. Peterson Field Guides -- By Lawrence Page & Brooks Burr

Fish Watching
An Outdoor Guide to Freshwater Fishes
-- By C. Lavett Smith

Freshwater Fish of North America -- Mac's Field Guides laminated card

Pacific Coast Fishes. Peterson Field Guides -- By William N. Eschmeyer & Earl S. Herald

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