Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge was established in 1997 to conserve, protect and enhance the abundance and diversity of native plant, fish and wildlife species and the ecosystems on which they depend throughout the Connecticut River watershed. The watershed covers large areas of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut. It contains a great diversity of habitats, notably: northern forest valuable as nesting habitat for migrant thrushes, warblers and other birds; rivers and streams used by shad, salmon, herring and other migratory fishes; and an internationally significant complex of high-quality
Sander (genus) and is used as an outgroup to root the tree. Sander (genus) Sander (formerly known as "Stizostedion") is a genus of fish in the Percidae (perch) family. They are also known as "pike-perch" because of their resemblance to fish in the unrelated Esocidae (pike) family. Local names for the fish have been the basis for many geographical names, like River Suda in Russia or Saunags village on the Baltic coast. The genus includes the following 5 species: Phylogenetic relationships of the species of genus "Sander" based on the concatenated data set of six gene regions and a Bayesian analysis. "Romanichthys