Killifish; Salt-water minnow; Chub; Mummy… So closely do they hug the shore that a line drawn 100 yards from land would probably enclose all the mummichogs in the Gulf of Maine… Seldom more than 4 inches long. Abound in the tidal creeks that cut our salt marshes, in muddy pools, in ditches. Shoals of “mummies” may often be seen moving in with the flood tide. Often trapped in little pools until the next tide arrives.
From Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953
-Al Bezanson
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The swift end of a mummichog in Smith Cove
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Thank you Al and Love the photo. I always called them minnows; mummichog is much more fun to say!
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