List of freshwater fishes of Maryland

Bowfin ([Amiidae])

• Bowfin

  Catfishes ([Ictaluridae])

• White catfish
• Yellow bullhead
• Brown bullhead
• Blue catfish
• Channel catfish
• Stonecat
• Tadpole madtom
• Margined madtom
• Flathead catfish

  Eels ([Anguillidae])

• American eel

  Gars ([Lepisosteidae])

• Longnose gar

  Herrings ([Clupeidae])

• Blueback herring
• Hickory shad
• Alewife
• American shad
• Gizzard shad
• Threadfin shad

  Killifishes ([Fundulidae])

• Banded killifish
• Mummichog
• Spotfin killifish
• Striped killifish
• Rainwater killifish

  Pupfish ([Cyprinodontidae])

• Marsh pupfish

  Lampreys ([Petromyzontidae])

• Least brook lamprey
• American brook lamprey
• Sea lamprey

  Lotids ([Lotidae])

• Burbot

  Minnows ([Cyprinidae])

• Central stoneroller
• Goldfish
• Redside dace
• Rosyside dace
• Grass carp
• Satinfin shiner
• Spotfin shiner
• Common carp
• Cutlips minnow
• Eastern silvery minnow
• Striped shiner
• Common shiner
• Allegheny pearl dace
• River chub
• Golden shiner
• Comely shiner
• Emerald shiner
• Bridle shiner
• Silverjaw minnow
• Ironcolor shiner
• Spottail shiner
• Swallowtail shiner
• Rosyface shiner
• Cheat minnow
• Bluntnose minnow
• Fathead minnow
• Eastern blacknose dace
• Longnose dace
• Rudd
• Creek chub
• Fallfish
• Tench

  Mudminnows ([Umbridae])

• Eastern mudminnow

  Perches ([Percidae])

• Greenside darter
• Rainbow darter
• Fantail darter
• Swamp darter
• Johnny darter
• Tessellated darter
• Maryland darter
• Glassy darter
• Banded darter
• Yellow perch
• Logperch
• Stripeback darter
• Shield darter
• Walleye

  Percopsids ([Percopsidae])

• Trout-perch

  Pikes ([Esocidae])

• Redfin pickerel
• Northern pike
• Muskellunge
• Chain pickerel

  Pirate perch ([Aphredoderidae])

• Pirate perch

  Poeciliids ([Poeciliidae])

• Eastern mosquitofish

  Pupfish ([Cyprinodontidae])

• Sheepshead minnow

  Sculpins ([Cottidae])

• Mottled sculpin
• Blue Ridge sculpin

  Silversides ([Atherinopsidae])

• Rough silverside
• Inland silverside
• Atlantic silverside

  Smelts ([Osmeridae])

• Rainbow smelt

  Snakeheads ([Channidae])

• Snakehead

  Sticklebacks ([Gasterosteidae])

• Fourspine stickleback
• Brook stickleback
• Threespine stickleback

  Sturgeons ([Acipenseridae])

• Shortnose sturgeon
• Atlantic sturgeon

  Suckers ([Catostomidae])

• Quillback
• Longnose sucker
• White sucker
• Creek chubsucker
• Northern hogsucker
• Golden redhorse
• Shorthead redhorse

  Sunfishes ([Centrarchidae])

• Mud sunfish
• Rock bass
• Flier
• Blackbanded sunfish
• Bluespotted sunfish
• Banded sunfish
• Redbreast sunfish
• Green sunfish
• Pumpkinseed
• Warmouth
• Bluegill
• Longear sunfish
• Redear sunfish
• Smallmouth bass
• Largemouth bass
• White crappie
• Black crappie

  Temperate basses ([Moronidae])

• White perch
• Striped bass

  Trout and whitefish ([Salmonidae])

• Cutthroat trout
• Rainbow trout
• Brown trout
• Brook trout
• Lake trout
• Lake herring