The fish wall
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The fish wall
Each species with an image we can trace, its French name and its scientific name. Then flip it over: the image stays, the name disappears, and four answers appear.
What this page shows you, and what it refuses to
Shown
The image, the French name, the scientific name, and who made the image. Images were fetched from Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist by scientific name, so the match between the name and the fish comes from a source — not from someone typing. We say “image”, not “photo”: a few are scientific plates or drawings, and a class should not have to guess which it is looking at. One species of our 209 has no traceable image, so it is not on this wall.
Not shown
Sizes, habitats and diets. Those columns were filled in bulk on 191 of our 209 records: the same average size on 165 species, the same habitat on 97, and the walleye — a freshwater fish — filed under salt water. Showing them in a classroom would be teaching a copy-paste mistake.
That is the lesson, really: a database can be wrong in perfect silence. Nothing looks broken. You find out by checking one record against a source — and then by checking a second one.
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Aiguillat noir
Centroscyllium fabricii
Photo : 2001 Monkfish Cooperative Research Survey · Public domain
Anguille d'Amérique
Anguilla rostrata
Photo : Clinton & Charles Robertson from RAF Lakenheath, UK & San Marcos, TX, USA & UK · CC BY 2.0
Barbotte jaune
Ameiurus natalis
Photo : Eric Engbretson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain
![Carpe des roseaux [ 59 ]](/images/poissons/carpe-des-roseaux-59.webp)
Chabot à tête plate
Cottus ricei
Photo : New York State Department of Natural Conservation · Public domain
Crapet de roche
Ambloplites rupestris
Photo : Illustration by Ted Walke for the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission · Public domain
Fouille-roche gris
Percina copelandi
Photo : Barton Warren Evermann / William Converse Kendall · Public domain
![Gardon rouge (Rotengle) [ 62 ]](/images/poissons/gardon-rouge-rotengle-62.webp)
Gardon rouge (Rotengle) [ 62 ]
Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Photo : George Chernilevsky · Public domain
Grenadier du Grand Banc
Nezumia bairdii
Photo : NOAA's Fisheries Collection ,SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public domain
![Lanterne à grandes écailles [ Note 1 ]](/images/poissons/lanterne-grandes-cailles-note-1.webp)
Lanterne à grandes écailles [ Note 1 ]
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus
Photo : NOAA's Fisheries Collection ,SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC / NOAA Photo Library · Public domain
Lycode à carreaux
Lycodes vahlii
Photo : Bradley Rasmussen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bradley Rasmussen · CC BY-NC
Lycode arctique
Lycodes reticulatus
Photo : Claude Nozères, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Claude Nozères · CC BY-NC
Lycode pâle
Lycodes pallidus
Photo : Claude Nozères, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Claude Nozères · CC BY-NC
Marigane noire
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Photo : United States Fish and Wildlife Services · Public domain
![Méné à grosse tête (Tête de boule) [ 52 ]](/images/poissons/m-n-grosse-t-te-t-te-de-boule-52.webp)
Méné à menton noir
Notropis heterodon
Photo : Forbes, Stephen Alfred, 1844-1930; Richardson, Robert Earl, b. 1877, joint author · Public domain
![Méné à museau arrondi (Ventre-pourri) [ 52 ]](/images/poissons/m-n-museau-arrondi-ventre-pourri-52.webp)
Méné bec-de-lièvre
Exoglossum maxillingua
Photo : Isaac Read Masters at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Méné d'argent
Hybognathus regius
Photo : Aimee Roberson, USFWS (you can see her affiliation here ) · Public domain
Ménomini rond
Prosopium cylindraceum
Photo : The original uploader was Oniongirl at English Wikipedia . · Public domain
Motelle à quatre barbillons
Enchelyopus cimbrius
Photo : Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0
Saumon rouge
Oncorhynchus nerka
Photo : Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 · Public domain
Tapir à grandes écailles
Notacanthus chemnitzii
Photo : Ken Graham, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ken Graham · CC BY-NC
Touladi (Truite grise)
Salvelinus namaycush
Photo : Knepp Timothy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain
Truite arc-en-ciel
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Photo : Engbretson Eric, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain
Truite fardée
Oncorhynchus clarkii
Photo : Knepp Timothy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain
Unernak caméléon
Gymnelus viridis
Photo : Claude Nozères, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Claude Nozères · CC BY-NC