Annotated checklist and distribution of New Jersey freshwater fishes, with comments on abundance.

ABSTRACT: An investigation of the freshwater, anadromous, catadromous, and generally existing and long occurring introduced species that comprise the freshwater fish fauna of novel Jersey indicates the event of 86 species in 24 families. Containing the greatest in quantity species (20) is the carps and minnows) family, followed through the sunfish family (14 species), and the North American catfishes family (7 species); these spasm families include 47.6% of the total species. Ten families contain solitary one species each. Included in the state fish fauna are: single native species (longnose gar) that has