Mummichog in 1973. The genus name "Fundulus" comes from "", meaning bottom, from the fish's habit of swimming near muddy bottoms. The species name "heteroclitus" means irregular or unusual. The type specimen was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766, from near Charleston, South Carolina. Other scientific names now considered synonyms for this species include "Cobitis heteroclita", "Fundulus fasciatus", "Fundulus pisculentus", and "Fundulus nigrofasciatus". The mummichog belongs to the order Cyprinodontiformes, and the family Fundulidae. There are two subspecies: "F. h. heteroclitus" (Linnaeus, 1766), in the south and "F. h. macrolepidotus" (Walbaum, 1792) in the north. The name mummichog is derived
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