U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fish of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge For your safety only salt water fishing Common Name Common Name is allowed at the Refuge. Fishing access Scientific Name Scientific Name points are designated on the Refuge map that you receive at the Visitors’ Center. Common Carp Atlantic Silverstripe Halfbeak Fishing is allowed from all designated Cyprinus carpio Hyporhamphus unifasciatus access points from April 15 to October 15 each year. During October 15 through Golden Shiner Diamond Killifish April 15, fishing is permitted at the Notemigonus crysoleucas Adinia xenica Fishing Pier opposite the Picnic area only. Black Bullhead Golden Topminnow Ameiurus melas Fundulus chrysotus Common Name Scientific Name Yellow Bullhead Gulf Killifish Ameiurus natalis Fundulus grandis Atlantic Stingray Dasyatis sabina Brown Bullhead Bayou Killifish Ameiurus nebulosus Fundulus pulvereus Alligator Gar Atractosteus spatula Channel Catfish Longnose Killifish Ictalurus punctatus Fundulus similis Spotted Gar Lepisosteus oculatus Hardhead Catfish Rainwater Killifish Ariopsis felis Lucania parva Shortnose Gar Lepisosteus platostomus Gafftopsail Catfish Western Mosquitofish Bagre marinus Gambusia affinis Bowfin Amia calva Inshore Lizardfish Sailfin Molly Synodus foetens Poecilia latipinna Ladyfish Elops saurus Blackedge Cusk-eel Sheepshead Minnow Lepophidium brevibarbe Cyprinodon variegatus Tarpon Megalops atlanticus Gulf Toadfish Opossum Pipefish Opsanus beta Microphis brachyurus Speckled Worm Eel Myrophis punctatus Atlantic Midshipman Chain Pipefish Porichthys plectrodon Syngnathus louisianae Bay Anchovy Anchoa mitchilli Striped Mullet Gulf Pipefish Mugil cephalus Syngnathus scovelli Skipjack Herring Alosa chrysochloris White Mullet Redbreast Sunfish Mugil curema Lepomis auritus Finescale Menhaden Brevoortia gunteri Inland Silverside Warmouth Menidia beryllina Lepomis gulosus Gulf Menhaden Brevoortia patronus Atlantic Silverside Bluegill Menidia menidia Lepomis macrochirus Gizzard Shad Dorosoma cepedianum Tidewater Silverside Longear Sunfish Menidia peninsulae Lepomis megalotis Threadfin Shad Dorosoma petenense Atlantic Needlefish Redear Sunfish Strongylura marina Lepomis microlophus Common Name Common Name Common Name Scientific Name Scientific Name Scientific Name

Bantum Sunfish Spot Southern Flounder Lepomis symmetricus Leiostomus xanthurus Paralichthys lethostigma

Largemouth Bass Atlantic Croaker Dusky Flounder Micropterus salmoides Micropogonias undulatus Syacium papillosum

Crevalle Jack Black Drum Lined Sole Caranx hippos Pogonias cromis Achirus lineatus

Spotfin Mojarra Red Drum Hogchoker Eucinostomus argenteus Sciaenops ocellatus Trinectes maculatus

Silver Jenny Fat Sleeper Blackcheek Tonguefish Eucinostomus gula Dormitator maculatus Symphurus plagiusa

Pigfish Darter Goby Least Puffer Orthopristis chrysoptera Ctenogobius boleosoma Sphoeroides parvus

Sheepshead Naked Goby Revision April 2008 Archosargus probatocephalus Gobiosoma bosc Reference Pinfish Clown Goby This list is in the phylogenetic order as Lagodon rhomboides Microgobius gulosus found in the book Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Silver Perch Bay Wiff Canada and Mexico, Sixth Edition, Bairdiella chrysoura Citharichthys spilopterus 2004, American Fisheries Society Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland Sand Seatrout Fringed Flounder Cynoscion arenarius Etropus crossotus

Spotted Seatrout Gulf Flounder Cynoscion nebulosus Paralichthys albigutta