Who knew there were so many Cyprinids?

Uggh...flash cards of fish. Really, I like taxonomy as much as the next biologists, but seriously, nearly 100 fish species to memorize for an undergraduate Icthyology course? It wouldn't be so bad if it was easily identifiable fishes, like the Centrarchids, for example. But, here I have before me 19 different cyprinidae species to learn, and all but one of them is easy (Carp, Cyprinus carpio). The rest are Daces, Minnows, Shiners and Chads. And then there are the Catostomatids! Who knew there were so many freaking kinds of suckers!

Any way, I'd like to petition the icthyologists in the audience to reduce the Cyprinidae to three species: Carp, Goldfish, and Minnow. Hell of a lot easier to learn, and you know all those damn cyprinids look alike anyway. Oh, and reduce the Catostomatids to one species: White Sucker.

(Yes, yes, above is satire. However, I am quite tired of fish. The remaining portion of my insanity is weeping in a dark corner of my soul, chanting in latin gibberish)

"Nouomis bigutatus, BIGUTTATUS I SAY!!"

Any way, I would much rather learn aquatic insects. Fish are so....vertebrata, with their bones and scales and lack of superior chitinous exoskelleton.