Editing Chain pickerel (section)

{{short description|Species of freshwater fish}}
{{speciesbox
| name          = Chain pickerel
| image         = FMIB 43021 Pickerel (Lucius reticulatus Le Sueur) From a Pond in Massachusetts.jpeg
| image_caption = Illustration of ''Esox niger''.
| image_upright = 1.1
| status        = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref    = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=NatureServe |date=2013 |title=''Esox niger'' |volume=2013 |page=e.T202402A15363088 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202402A15363088.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus         = Esox
| species       = niger
| authority     = [[Charles Alexandre Lesueur|Lesueur]], 1818<ref>{{ITIS |id=162143 |taxon=Esox niger |access-date=5 December 2004}}</ref>
| synonyms      = ''Esox reticulatus'' (Lesueur, 1818)
| synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |website=FishBase|title=Synonyms of ''Esox niger''|author=dsantos|date=5 August 2014|url=https://www.fishbase.se/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=2712&SynCode=29963&GenusName=Esox&SpeciesName=niger|access-date=20 January 2023}}</ref>
}}
The '''chain pickerel''' ('''''Esox niger''''') is a [[species]] of [[freshwater fish]] in the pike [[family (biology)|family]] (family [[Esocidae]]) of [[order (biology)|order]] [[Esociformes]].<ref>{{FishBase_species|genus=Esox|species=niger|year=2004|month=October}}</ref> The chain pickerel and the [[American pickerel]] (''E. americanus'') belong to the ''Esox'' [[genus]] of pike.<ref name=range/>