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Esocidae
chain pickerel
Esox niger
Esocid Fish of Freshwater Basins
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
Largechain pickerel is a freshwater fish from North America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 99 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Pikes and Mudminnows
- Family
- Esocidae
- Genus
- Esox
- Maximum length
- 99 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North America: Nova Scotia, Canada (introduced) to southern Florida, USA; Gulf coast west to Sabine Lake drainage in Louisiana, USA; Mississippi River basin north to Kentucky and Missouri, USA. Introduced to Lakes Ontario and Erie drainages and elsewhere.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
