Chain pickerel
Scientific name: Esox niger Lesueur, 1818
Overview
The chain pickerel, also known as Jackfish, Mud Pike, or Southern Pike is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family of order Esociformes. The chain pickerel and the American pickerel belong to the Esox genus of pike.
From the Wikipedia article “Chain pickerel”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Common names
Names in other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 暗色狗魚
- French
- brochet maillé
- German
- Kettenhecht
- Persian
- اردکماهی زنجیری
- Russian
- Чёрная щука
- Turkish
- Kara turna balığı
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q93596, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Chain pickerel”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Noel Burkhead/Howard Jelks, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026