A mosquito fish…

one of the many small critters we learned to identify at Stone Labs...

We took several trips to various places collecting fish, aquatic insects, plants, and plankton. This little guy was caught in a net and put into one of our buckets. We all took turns catching things out of the buckets to put in vials, and put in alcohol (the preservative we used to keep our creature collections from decaying). At the end of the week we had a practical exam to identify the various things we had caught throughout the class.



As you can see by these pictures, the mosquito fish is very small, he fits easily between the lines of the notebook paper identifying him.