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🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreSea lamprey A jawless, parasitic fish native to the Northern Hemisphere that attacks other fish.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1758

🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreSockeye salmon Anadromous Pacific salmon known for red spawning colour and zooplankton diet.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes · 1792

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAtlantic sturgeon A large anadromous fish native to the western Atlantic Ocean and its river systems.Ancient · Rivers and lakes

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreShortnose sturgeon A small, endangered North American sturgeon with a short snout.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1818

🇷🇺 Russia and 2 moreKaluga A massive semi-anadromous sturgeon from the Amur River basin hunted for caviar.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1872

WorldThree-spined stickleback Small northern fish known for rapid evolution and complex breeding.Other · Rivers and lakes

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreGreen sturgeon A large anadromous fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean.Shark · Coasts and shelves

🇺🇸 United States and 1 morePacific lamprey An anadromous parasitic jawless fish found along the Pacific Rim.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1872

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAlewife A small North American herring that migrates between sea and rivers.Herring · Coasts and shelves

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Sea lamprey: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Sockeye salmon: Timothy Knepp of the Fish and Wildlife Service., Public domain, source
Atlantic sturgeon: Jiaqian AirplaneFan, CC BY 3.0, source
Shortnose sturgeon: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Kaluga: あおもりくま（Aomorikuma）, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Three-spined stickleback: Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Green sturgeon: Muséum d'histoire Naturelle, Public domain, source
Pacific lamprey: Dave Herasimtschuk, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
Alewife: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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