Variable Lists and Abbreviations

1. Fish Species
2. Pathogens
3. Labs
4. Fish Stocks
5. Fish Collection Methods
6. Tissue Types
7. Preliminary Testing Procedures
8. Corroborative Testing Procedures

Fish Species

1. Alabama hog sucker - Hypentelium etowanum
2. Alewife - Alosa pseudoharengus
3. American eel - Anguilla rostrata
4. American shad - Alosa sapidissima
5. Apache trout - Oncorhynchus gilae apache
6. Arctic char - Salvelinus alpinus
7. Arctic grayling - Thymallus arcticus
8. Arkansas River shiner - Notropis girardi
9. Arrow goby - Clevelandia ios
10. Arroyo chub - Gila orcutti
11. Atlantic menhaden - Brevoortia tyrannus
12. Atlantic salmon - Salmo salar
13. Atlantic sturgeon - Acipenser oxyrhynchus
14. Banded darter - Etheostoma zonde
15. Banded killifish - Fundulus diaphanus
16. Beautiful shiner - Cyprinella formosa
17. Bighead carp - Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
18. Bigmouth buffalo - Ictiobus cyprinellus
19. Bigscale logperch - Percina macrolepida
20. Black bass - Micropterus unknown
21. Black bullhead - Ameiurus melas
22. Black crappie - Pomoxis nigromaculatus
23. Black redhorse - Moxostoma duquesnei
24. Blacknose dace - Rhinichthys atratulus
25. Blacktail redhorse - Moxostoma poecilurum
26. Bloater - Coregonus hoyi
27. Blue catfish - Ictalurus furcatus
28. Blue chub - Gila coerulea
29. Blue sucker - Cycleptus elongatus
30. Blueback herring - Alosa aestivalis
31. Bluegill - Lepomis macrochirus
32. Bluehead chub - Nocomis leptocephalus
33. Bluntnose minnow - Pimephales notatus
34. Bonneville cutthroat trout - Oncorhynchus clarkii utah
35. Bowfin - Amia calva
36. Bridgelip sucker - Catostomus columbianus
37. Brook X Bull - Salvelinus fontinalis X confluentus
38. Brook silverside - Labidesthes sicculus
39. Brook trout - Salvelinus fontinalis
40. Brown bullhead - Ameiurus nebulosus
41. Brown trout - Salmo trutta
42. Bull trout - Salvelinus confluentus
43. Burbot - Lota lota
44. California killifish - Fundulus parvipinnis
45. California roach - Hesperoleucus symmetricus
46. Central mudminnow - Umbra limi
47. Central stoneroller - Campostoma anomalum
48. Chain pickerel - Esox niger
49. Channel catfish - Ictalurus punctatus
50. Chinook salmon - Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
51. Chiselmouth - Acrocheilus alutaceus
52. Chum salmon - Oncorhynchus keta
53. Cisco - Coregonus artedi
54. Coho salmon - Oncorhynchus kisutch
55. Common carp - Cyprinus carpio
56. Common shiner - Notropis cornutus
57. Creek chub - Semotilus atromaculatus
58. Crescent shiner - Luxilus cerasinus
59. Cui-ui - Chasmistes cujus
60. Cutbow hybrid - Oncorhynchus clarki X mykiss
61. Cutlips minnow - Exoglossum maxillingua
62. Cutthroat trout - Oncorhynchus clarki
63. Desert pupfish - Cyprinodon macularius
64. Desert sucker - Catostomus clarki
65. Dollar sunfish - Lepomis marginatus
66. Dolly varden - Salvelinus malma
67. Emerald shiner - Notropis atherinoides
68. Fallfish - Semotilus corporalis
69. Fantail darter - Etheostoma flabellare
70. Fathead minnow - Pimephales promelas
71. Flannelmouth sucker - Catostomus latipinnis
72. Flathead catfish - Pylodictis olivaris
73. Flathead chub - Platygobio gracilis
74. Fountain darter - Etheostoma fonticola
75. Freshwater drum - Aplodinotus grunniens
76. Gila chub - Gila intermedia
77. Gila topminnow - Poeciliopsis occidentalis1
78. Gila trout - Oncorhynchus gilae gilae
79. Gizzard shad - Dorosoma cepedianum
80. Golden redhorse - Moxostoma erythrurum
81. Golden shiner - Notemigonus crysoleucas
82. Golden trout - Oncorhynchus aguabonita
83. Goldeye - Hiodon alosoides
84. Goldfish - Carassius auratus
85. Grass carp - Ctenopharyngodon idella
86. Greater jumprock - Moxostoma lachneri
87. Green sunfish - Lepomis cyanellus
88. Guppy - Poecilia reticulata
89. Hardhead - Mylopharodon conocephalus
90. Highfin carpsucker - Carpiodes velifer
91. Hitch - Lavinia exilicauda
92. Humpback chub - Gila cypha
93. Inland silverside - Menidia beryllina
94. Klamath lamprey - Lampetra similis
95. Klamath smallscale sucker - Catostomus rimiculus
96. Kokanee salmon - Oncorhynchus nerka2
97. Lahontan cutthroat trout - Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi
98. Lahontan redside - Richardsonius egregius
99. Lake chub - Couesius plumbeus
100. Lake sturgeon - Acipenser fulvescens
101. Lake trout - Salvelinus namaycush
102. Lake whitefish - Coregonus clupeaformis
103. Largemouth bass - Micropterus salmoides
104. Largescale sucker - Catostomus macrocheilus
105. Little Colorado spinedace - Lepidomeda vittata
106. Loach minnow - Tiaroga cobitis
107. Logperch - Percina caprodes
108. Longear sunfish - Lepomis megalotis
109. Longfin dace - Agosia chrysogaster
110. Longfin smelt - Spirinchus thaleichthys
111. Longnose dace - Rhinichthys cataractae
112. Longnose gar - Lepisosteus osseus
113. Longnose sucker - Catostomus catostomus
114. Lost River sucker - Deltistes luxatus
115. Margined madtom - Noturus insignis
116. Mooneye - Hiodon tergisus
117. Mottled sculpin - Cottus bairdi
118. Mountain sucker - Catostomus platyrhynchus
119. Mountain whitefish - Prosopium williamsoni
120. Mozambique Tilapia - Tilapia mossambica
121. Muskellunge - Esox masquinongy
122. Northern hog sucker - Hypentelium nigricans
123. Northern pike - Esox lucius
124. Northern pikeminnow - Ptychocheilus oregonensis
125. Northern redbelly dace - Phoxinus eos
126. Orangethroat darter - Etheostoma spectabilis
127. Pacific herring - Clupea pallasi
128. Pacific lamprey - Lampetra tridentata
129. Pacific staghorn sculpin - Leptocottus armatus
130. Paddlefish - Polyodon spathula
131. Paiute sculpin - Cottus beldingi
132. Pallid sturgeon - Scaphirhynchus albus
133. Peamouth - Mylocheilus caurinus
134. Pikeminnow X Chiselmouth - Ptychocheilus X Acrocheilus
135. Pink salmon - Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
136. Prickly sculpin - Cottus asper
137. Pumpkinseed - Lepomis gibbosus
138. Pupfish - Cyprinodon unknown
139. Quillback - Carpiodes cyprinus
140. Rainbow smelt - Osmerus mordax
141. Rainbow trout - Oncorhynchus mykiss1
142. Razorback sucker - Xyrauchen texanus
143. Red drum - Sciaenops ocellatus
144. Red shiner - Cyprinella lutrensis
145. Redbreast sunfish - Lepomis auritus
146. Redear sunfish - Lepomis microlophus
147. Redeye bass - Micropterus coosae
148. Redlip shiner - Notropis chiliticus
149. Redside shiner - Richardsonius balteatus
150. Reticulate sculpin - Cottus perplexus
151. Rio Grande cutthroat trout - Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis
152. Rio Grande silvery minnow - Hybognathus amarus
153. River carpsucker - Carpiodes carpio
154. River chub - Nocomis micropogon
155. River redhorse - Moxostoma carinatum
156. Roanoke hogsucker - Hypentelium roanokense
157. Rock bass - Ambloplites rupestris
158. Rosefin shiner - Lythrurus ardens
159. Rosyside dace - Clinostomus funduloides
160. Round goby - Neogobius melanostomus
161. Roundtail chub - Gila robusta
162. Ruffe - Gymnocephalus cernuus
163. Sacramento pikeminnow - Ptychocheilus grandis
164. Sacramento sucker - Catostomus occidentalis
165. Salmonid - Oncorhynchus unknown
166. Sauger - Stizostedion canadense
167. Sculpin family - Unknown unknown1
168. Sculpin - Cottus unknown
169. Sea lamprey - Petromyzon marinus
170. Shadow bass - Ambloplites ariommus
171. Shiner - Notropis unknown
172. Shorthead redhorse - Moxostoma macrolepidotum
173. Shorthead sculpin - Cottus confusus
174. Shortnose gar - Lepisosteus platostomus
175. Shortnose sturgeon - Acipenser brevirostrum
176. Shortnose sucker - Chasmistes brevirostris
177. Shoshone sculpin - Cottus greenei
178. Shovelnose sturgeon - Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
179. Silver Carp - Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
180. Silver redhorse - Moxostoma anisurum
181. Slimy sculpin - Cottus cognatus
182. Smallfin redhorse - Moxostoma robustum
183. Smallmouth bass - Micropterus dolomieu
184. Smallmouth buffalo - Ictiobus bubalus
185. Sockeye salmon - Oncorhynchus nerka1
186. Sonora sucker - Catostomus insignis
187. Speckled dace - Rhinichthys osculus
188. Spikedace - Meda fulgida
189. Splake - Salvelinus fontinalis X namaycush
190. Splittail - Pogonichthys macrolepidotus
191. Spottail shiner - Notropis hudsonius
192. Spotted bass - Micropterus punctulatus
193. Spotted gar - Lepisosteus oculatus
194. Spotted sucker - Minytrema melanops
195. Spotted sunfish - Lepomis punctatus
196. Steelhead trout - Oncorhynchus mykiss2
197. Striped bass - Morone saxatilis
198. Sucker - Catostomus unknown
199. Sunshine bass - Morone saxatilis X chrysops
200. Suwannee bass - Micropterus notius
201. Tadpole madtom - Noturus gyrinus
202. Tahoe sucker - Catostomus tahoensis
203. Tessellated darter - Etheostoma olmstedi
204. Threadfin shad - Dorosoma petenense
205. Threespine stickleback - Gasterosteus aculeatus
206. Tilapia - Tilapia unknown
207. Topsmelt - Atherinops affinis
208. Torrent sucker - Moxostoma rhotheca
209. Trout - Unknown unknown2
210. Tui chub - Gila bicolor
211. Tule perch - Hysterocarpus traski
212. Utah chub - Gila atraria
213. Utah sucker - Catostomus ardens
214. Walleye - Stizostedion vitreum
215. Warmouth - Lepomis gulosis
216. Warpaint shiner - Luxilus coccogenis
217. Western mosquitofish - Gambusia affinis
218. White River spinedace - Lepidomeda albivallis
219. White bass - Morone chrysops
220. White catfish - Ameiurus catus
221. White crappie - Pomoxis annularis
222. White perch - Morone americana
223. White sturgeon - Acipenser transmontanus
224. White sucker - Catostomus commersoni
225. Whitefish - Unknown unknown3
226. Wood River sculpin - Cottus leiopomus
227. Yaqui chub - Gila purpurea
228. Yaqui topminnow - Poeciliopsis occidentalis2
229. Yellow bass - Morone mississippiensis
230. Yellow bullhead - Ameiurus natalis
231. Yellow perch - Perca flavescens
232. Yellowfin goby - Acanthogobius flavimanus

Pathogens

1. Asal - Aeromonas salmonicida
2. Bach - Bothriocephalus acheilognathi
3. Cfre - Citrobacter freundii
4. Csha - Ceratomyxa shasta
5. Eict - Edwardsiella ictaluri
6. Etar - Edwardsiella tarda
7. Fcol - Flavobacterium columnaris
8. Fpsy - Flavobacterium psychrophilum
9. IHNV - Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus
10. IPNV - Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus
11. ISAV - Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus
12. LMBV - Largemouth Bass virus
13. Mcer - Myxobolus cerebralis
14. OMV - Oncorhynchus Masou Virus
15. Rsal - Renibacterium salmoninarum
16. SVCV - Spring Viremia of Carp Virus
17. VHSV - Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus
18. WSHV - White Sturgeon Herpesvirus 2
19. Yruc - Yersinia ruckeri

Labs

1. Aquatic Animal Health Lab
2. Bozeman Fish Health Center
3. California-Nevada Fish Health Center
4. Eagle Fish Health Laboratory
5. Fish Pathology Laboratory (Anchorage)
6. Idaho Fish Health Center
7. LaCrosse Fish Health Center
8. Lamar Fish Health Center
9. Lower Columbia River Fish Health Center
10. Olympia Fish Health Center
11. Pinetop Fish Health Center
12. Warm Springs Fish Health Center
13. Washington State University

Fish Stocks

1. Carson spring chinook
2. Chambers Creek
3. Chesapeake Bay
4. Clackamas winter steelhead
5. Colorado River
6. Columbia River fall chinook
7. Columbia River spring chinook
8. Columbia River summer chinook
9. Columbia River tule chinook
10. Connecticut River stock
11. Cutthroat
12. Ennis rainbow
13. Ganaraska
14. Green Back
15. Interior Red Band
16. Klamath River Juveniles
17. Lahonton cutthroat
18. Montana Native
19. Red Fish Lake sockeye
20. Sacramento fall chinook
21. Sacramento winter chinook
22. Snake River
23. Trinity River Fall-run
24. Unarmored
25. Westslope
26. Yellowstone

Fish Collection Methods

1. Angling
2. Beach seine
3. Dip net
4. Drift net
5. Electro shocking
6. Electro shocking/ gill net
7. Fyke net
8. Gill net
9. Hook-n-line
10. Hoop nets
11. Net
12. Pound net
13. Rotenone
14. Screw Trap
15. Seine net
16. Snagged
17. Trammel & gill nets
18. Trammel nets
19. Trap
20. Trap net
21. Trawl
22. Trot line
23. Weir

Tissue Types

1. BLOOD - Blood
2. BR - Brain
3. CE - Cranial Elements
4. FECA - Fecal Sample
5. FIN CLIP - Fin Clip
6. FIN/SKIN - Fin/Skin
7. FNMUGL - Fin/Mucus/Gill
8. GIT - Gastrointestinal Tract
9. GL - Gill
10. GL/GIT - Gill/Gastrointestinal Tract
11. GONADS - Gonads
12. HEAD - Head
13. HG - Hind-Gut
14. HRT - Heart
15. KID - Kidney
16. KL - Kidney/Liver
17. KS - Kidney/Spleen
18. KSG - Kidney/Spleen/Gill
19. KSL - Kidney/Spleen/Liver
20. KSO - Kidney/Spleen/Ovarian Fluid
21. KSPC - Kidney/Spleen/Pyloric Caeca
22. KSSB - Kidney/Spleen/Swim Bladder
23. LESI - Skin Lesion
24. LIVER - Liver
25. MUCU - Mucus
26. OV - Ovarian Fluid
27. PC - Pyloric Caeca
28. REPR - Reproductive Fluids (Ovarian & Seminal)
29. SEMI - Seminal Fluid
30. SK - Skin
31. SP - Spleen
32. TAIL - Tail
33. VENT - Vent
34. VISC - Visceral Tissue
35. WB - Whole Body

Preliminary Testing Proceedures

1. BB - Brown Bullhead Cell line
2. BF2 - Bluegill Fry Cell Line
3. BF2/EPC - Bluegill Fry/Epithelial Papillima of Carp
4. BHIA - Brain-Heart Infusion Agar Culture
5. BS - Blood Smear
6. CCO - Channel Catfish Ovary Cell Line
7. CHSE - Chinook Salmon Embryo Cell Line
8. CHSE/BB - Chinook Embryo/Brown Bullhead Cell Lines
9. CHSE/BF2 - Chinook Embryo/Bluegill Fry Cell Lines
10. CHSE/WSSK - Chinook Embryo/White Sturgeon Skin Cell Lines
11. Cyto - Cytophaga Agar
12. Digest - Pepsin/Trypsin Digest
13. Dir Obs - Direct Obs
14. ELISA - Enzyme-linked immunosorbant Assay
15. EPC - Epithelial papillima of Common Carp
16. EPC/CHSE - EPC/CHSE-214 Cell Culture
17. FAT - Fluorescent Antibody Technique
18. FHM - Fathead Minnow Cell Line
19. FHM/CHSE - FHM/CHSE-2
20. FHM/EPC - FHM/EPC Cell Culture
21. Histo - Histological Observation
22. KDM-2 - Kidney Disease Medium
23. MF-FAT - Membrane Filtration Fluorescent Antibody Test
24. Obs - Microscopic Observation
25. PCR - Polymerase Chain Reaction
26. Plankto - Plankton Centrifuge Method
27. RTG-2 - RTG-2 Cell Line
28. TSA - Tryptic Soy Agar
29. TYES - Tryptone Yeast Extract Salts Agar
30. WSSK - White Sturgeon Skin Cell Line

Corroborative Testing Proceedures

1. Agglut - Agglutination
2. API - Biochemical Test
3. Blot - Immuno-blot
4. ELISA - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbant Assay
5. EM - Electron Microscopy
6. FAT - Fluorescent Antibody Test
7. FELISA - Filtration Enzyme Linked Immunoassay
8. Histo - Histological Observation
9. Morph - Morphology
10. N/A - N/A
11. Obs - Microscopic Observation
12. PCR - Polymerase Chain Reaction
13. Serum - Serum Neutralization Test
14. u - unknown