Editing Chain pickerel (section)

==Taxonomy==
French naturalist [[Charles Alexandre Lesueur]] described the chain pickerel in 1818. Its species name is the [[Latin]] word ''niger'' "black".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dniger1 |title=nĭger |encyclopedia=A Latin Dictionary|last1=Lewis|first1=Charlton T.|last2=Short|first2=Charles|access-date=10 December 2022|year=1879|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|via=[[Perseus Digital Library]]}}</ref>

Nicknames include the "southern pike", "grass pike", "jack", "jackfish", "gunny" and "eastern pickerel". In central Florida the chain pickerel is known locally as "Gatorfish" <ref name="fuller">{{cite web |url=https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=681|title=''Esox niger'' (Chain Pickerel)|website=Nonindigenous Aquatic Species|publisher=U.S. Geological Survey|last1=Fuller|first1=P.|last2=Larson|first2=J.|last3=Makled|first3=T.H.|last4=Lower|first4=E.|last5=Fusaro|first5=A.|date=12 September 2019|orig-date=Peer reviewed 30 January 2015|access-date=20 January 2023}}</ref>