Alaska Freshwater Fish Inventory (AFFI)
Species Reported in Alaskan Fresh Waters

Species

Taxa, scientific name	Taxa, common name	Native or Introduced	Typical life history
Lethenteron alaskense	Alaskan brook lamprey	Native	Resident
Occidentis ayresii	Western river lamprey	Native	Anadromous or resident
Lethenteron camtschaticum	Arctic lamprey	Native	Anadromous
Lethenteron camtschaticum	Arctic-Alaskan brook lamprey paired species	Native	Anadromous or resident
Entosphenus tridentatus	Pacific lamprey	Native	Anadromous
Petromyzontidae	lamprey-unspecified		Anadromous or resident
Acipenser medirostris	green sturgeon	Native	Anadromous
Acipenser transmontanus	white sturgeon	Native	Anadromous or resident
Acipenser sp.	sturgeon-unspecified		Anadromous or resident
Alosa sapidissima	American shad	Introduced	Anadromous
Clupea pallasii	Pacific herring	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Clupeidae	herrings-unspecified
Couesius plumbeus	lake chub	Native	Resident
Catostomus catostomus	longnose sucker	Native	Resident
Esox lucius	northern pike	Native	Resident
Dallia pectoralis	Alaska blackfish	Native	Resident
Hypomesus olidus	pond smelt	Native	Anadromous or resident
Hypomesus pretiosus	surf smelt	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Osmerus mordax	rainbow smelt	Native	Anadromous
Spirinchus thaleichthys	longfin smelt	Native	Anadromous
Thaleichthys pacificus	eulachon	Native	Anadromous
Osmeridae	smelt-unspecified		Anadromous or resident
Coregonus autumnalis	Arctic cisco	Native	Anadromous
Coregonus clupeaformis	lake whitefish	Native	Resident
Coregonus laurettae	Bering cisco	Native	Anadromous or resident
Coregonus nasus	broad whitefish	Native	Anadromous or resident
Coregonus nelsonii	Alaska whitefish	Native	Resident
Coregonus pidschian	humpback whitefish	Native	Anadromous or resident
Coregonus sardinella	least cisco	Native	Anadromous or resident
Prosopium coulteri	pygmy whitefish	Native	Resident
Prosopium cylindraceum	round whitefish	Native	Resident
Stenodus leucichthys	inconnu	Native	Anadromous or resident
Coregoninae	whitefish-unspecified		Anadromous or resident
Thymallus arcticus	Arctic grayling	Native	Resident
Oncorhynchus clarkii	cutthroat trout	Native	Anadromous or resident
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha	pink salmon	Native	Anadromous
Oncorhynchus keta	chum salmon	Native	Anadromous
Oncorhynchus kisutch	coho salmon	Native	Anadromous
Oncorhynchus mykiss	rainbow trout	Native	Anadromous or resident
Oncorhynchus nerka	sockeye salmon	Native	Anadromous or resident Kokanee
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha	Chinook salmon	Native	Anadromous
Iteroparous Oncorhynchus sp.	trout-unspecified		Anadromous or resident
Semelparous Oncorhynchus sp.	Pacific salmon-unspecified		Anadromous
Salmo salar	Atlantic salmon	Introduced	Anadromous
Salvelinus alpinus	Arctic char	Native	Anadromous or resident
Salvelinus fontinalis	brook trout	Introduced	Anadromous or resident
Salvelinus malma	Dolly Varden	Native	Anadromous or resident
Salvelinus namaycush	lake trout	Native	Resident
Salvelinus sp.	char-unspecified		Anadromous or resident
Salmonidae	salmon, trout, char, grayling or whitefish, unspecified		Anadromous or resident
Percopsis omiscomaycus	trout-perch	Native	Resident
Lota lota	burbot	Native	Resident
Boreogadus saida	Arctic cod	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Eleginus gracilis	saffron cod	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Gadus macrocephalus	Pacific cod	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Gadidae	cod-unspecified
Gasterosteus aculeatus	threespine stickleback	Native	Marine/estuarine, resident, or anadromous
Pungitius pungitius	ninespine stickleback	Native	Marine/estuarine, resident, or anadromous
Gasterosteidae	stickleback-unspecified		Marine/estuarine, resident, or anadromous
Clinocottus acuticeps	sharpnose sculpin	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Cottus aleuticus	coastrange sculpin	Native	Resident
Cottus asper	prickly sculpin	Native	Resident
Cottus cognatus	slimy sculpin	Native	Resident
Leptocottus armatus	Pacific staghorn sculpin	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Myoxocephalus quadricornis	fourhorn sculpin	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Cottidae	sculpin-unspecified
Perca flavescens	yellow perch	Introduced	Resident
Cymatogaster aggregata	shiner perch	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Platichthys stellatus	starry flounder	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Pleuronectes glacialis	Arctic flounder	Native	Principally marine/estuarine
Pleuronectidae	righteye flounders-unspecified		Principally marine/estuarine