Author: Gmelin, 1789
FBname: Redfin pickerel
Comments: Live in lakes, swamps, and backwaters, and sluggish pools of streams.  Usually occur among vegetation in clear water (Ref. 86798).  Also found in brush piles, overhanging brush or rocks and boulders in areas lacking vegetation.  Rarely occur in rivers (Ref. 4639).  In winter, they are found associated with dead leaf litter (Ref. 39089).  Juveniles are found in flood pools and rivulets among exposed roots, twigs, leaves, and grass in 7.6-10.2 cm of water (Ref. 39088).  Larvae are sometimes found in very shallow water in roadside ditches, also in dead leaf litter (Ref. 39089).  Oviparous (Ref. 205).