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Many fish species are found in and around Refuge waters. The mixed habitats of freshwater, saltwater and brackish water lend to a great diversity of fish species in the area.
Refuge fishes
Alligator gar Atractosteus spatula   Atlantic croaker Micropogon undulatus
Atlantic
midshipman
Porichthys porosissimus   Atlantic needlefish Strongylura marina
Atlantic stingray Dasyatis sabina   Bantam sunfish Lepomis symmetricus
Bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli   Bay whiff Citharichthys spilopterus
Bayou killifish Fundulus pulvureus   Black bullhead Ictalurus melas
Blackcheek tonguefish Symphurus plagiusa   Black drum Pogonia cromis
Blackedge
cusk-eel
Lepophidium graellsi   Bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus
Brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus   Common Carp Cyprinus carpio
Chain pipefish Syngnthus louisianae   Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus
Clown goby Microgobius golosus   Crevalle jack Caranx hippos 
Darter goby Gobionellus boleosoma   Diamond killifish Adinia xenica
Flagfin mojara Eucinostomus currani   Fringed flounder Etropus crossotus 
Gafftopsail catfish Bagre marinus   Gizzard shad Dorosoma cepedianum
Golden shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas   Golden topminnow Fundulus chrysotus
Gulf flounder Paralichthys albigutta   Gulf killifish Fundulus grandis
Gulf menhaden Brevoortia patronus   Gulf pipefish Syngnathus scovelli
Gulf toadfish Opsanus beta   Sea catfish Arius felis
Hogchoker Trinectes maculatus   Tidewater silverside Menidia beryllina
Inshore lizard fish Synodus foetens   Ladyfish Elops saurus
Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides   Least puffer Sphoeroides parvus
Longear sunfish Lepomis megalotis   Longnose killifish Fundulus similis
Lined sole Achirus lineatus   Mosquitofish Gambusia affinis
Naked goby Gobiosoma bosci   Pigfish Orthopristis chrysoptera
Pinfish Lagodon rhomboides   Rainwater killifish Luciana parva
Red drum Sciaenops ocellata   Redear sunfish Lepomis microlophus
Sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna    Sand seatrout Cynoscion arenarius
Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus   Sheepshead minnow Cyprinodon variegatus 
Silver jenny Eucinostomus gula    Silver perch Bairdiella chrysura
Skipjack Alosa chrysochloris   Southern flounder Paralichthys lethostigma
Speckled trout Cynoscion nebulosus   Speckled worm eel Myrophis punctatus
Spot Leiostomus xanthurus   Spotfin mojarra Eucinostomus argenteus 
Spotted gar Lepisosteus oculatus   Striped mullet Mugil cephalus
Threadfin shad Dorosoma petenense   Tidewater silverside Menidia beryllina
Warmouth Chaenobryttus gulosus   White mullet Mugil curema
Yellow bullhead Ameiverus natalis      

Freshwater species names herein follow:
Mayden, Richard L., ed. Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

Lee, David, et. al., Atlas of North American Freshwater Fishes, North Carolina Biological Survey, 1980.

Saltwater species names herein follow:
Walls, Jerry G. Fishes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Neptune City: T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Ltd. 1975

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