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Banded Pickerel
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This small pickerel, reaching a length of about a foot, occurs only east of the Alleghany Mountains, from Massachusetts to Florida, the westernmost record being Flomaton, Alabama. It is abundant in all lowland streams and swamps of this region. It takes the baited hook readily but is too small to be of much food or game value.
Easily known by the complete scaling of cheeks and opercles and in having 12 or 13 branchiostegals.