Pickerel may refer to:
Animals
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Esox
''Esox'' is a genus of freshwater fish commonly known as pike or pickerel. It is the type genus of the family (biology), family Esocidae. The type species of the genus is ''Esox lucius'', the northern pike.
''Esox'' have a fossil record exten ...
'', a genus of fish commonly known as the pickerels
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American pickerel
The American pickerel (''Esox americanus'') is a medium-sized species of North American freshwater predatory fish belonging to the pike family. The genus ''Esox'' is placed in the family Esocidae (in the order Esociformes).
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Chain pickerel
The chain pickerel (''Esox niger'') is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family (biology), family (family Esocidae) of order (biology), order Esociformes. The chain pickerel and the American pickerel (''E. americanus'') belong to the ''Esox ...
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Redfin pickerel
The redfin pickerel (''Esox americanus americanus'') is a subspecies of freshwater fish belonging to the pike family (Esocidae) of the order Esociformes. Not to be confused with its close relatives, the grass pickerel and the chain pickerel, thi ...
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Pickerel frog
The pickerel frog (''Lithobates palustris'', formerly ''Rana palustris'') is a small North American frog, characterized by the appearance of seemingly "hand-drawn" squares on its dorsal surface.
Distinguishing features
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Walleye
The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', Synonym (taxonomy), synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern ...
, a fish unrelated to ''Esox'', is called Pickerel in parts of Canada
Places
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Pickerel Creek
Pickerel Creek is a stream in Christian and Greene counties in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. The stream is a tributary to the Sac River.
The headwaters of the stream are in western Christian County at and the confluence with the Sac River ...
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Pickerel River (disambiguation) Pickerel River may refer to:
* Pickerel River (Ontario), a tributary of the French River system in Ontario,
* Pickerel River (Kansas), a tributary of the Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It gener ...
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Pickerel, Virginia
Pickerel is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (Unite ...
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Pickerel, Wisconsin
Pickerel is an unincorporated community in the northeast corner of Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States. The community is located on Wisconsin Highway 55, in the town of Langlade. Pickerel is northeast of Antigo, the county seat of Lang ...
People with the surname
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Mark Pickerel
Mark Pickerel (born March 12, 1968) is an American musician best known as the original drummer for the alternative rock band Screaming Trees. He is also an active session musician and has released several solo albums as a singer/guitarist.
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, American musician
Other uses
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USS ''Pickerel'', several ships of the United States Navy
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