Naugatuck River and roadways, through the time of development of Connecticut Route 8. The river enters a forested, hilly area between Connecticut Route 118 and Thomaston. The largely industrialized cities of the Naugatuck River Valley were developed on each side of the river, with periodic sections of forested areas, before it enters the Housatonic River at Derby, at about above sea level. As part of the Housatonic River watershed, the Naugatuck River historically hosted the southernmost Atlantic salmon ("Salmo salar") migrations. Historical runs of anadromous fish also included native American shad ("Alosa sapidissima", Connecticut's state fish), alewife ("Alosa pseudoharengus") and blueback herring
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