Rainbow Shiner

Rainbow Shiner
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Notropis
Species:	N. chrosomus
Binomial name
Notropis chrosomus (D. S. Jordan, 1877)

Rainbow Shiner (Notropis chrosomus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis.

The Rainbow Shiner has a length of 5 to 8 centimeters. It has translucent color from pink to golden with a silver-black stripe along its flanks. The base of its fins are of a reddish color. Adult males change their color during the mating period. Their ventral fins become blue, their head turns purple and their nose turns red.

The Rainbow Shiner was originally endemic to the Mobile River system, where it can be found in small clear rivers of drainage areas of the Alabama, Coosa and Black Warrior rivers in particular. Now it also appears in some rivers in Tennessee and is a popular pet fish for aquariums and ponds.

Rainbow Shiner spawns between May and June.

References

• Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 9780890968802, p. 109 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
• Leo Nico. 2010. Notropis chrosomus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=592> Revision Date: 12/5/2003
• Rainbow Shiner on FishBase.

External links

• Rainbow shiner - picture on a website of Samford University
• Eric Brodock: Rainbow Shinher - article in Finformation (volume 62, issue 2), a magazin of the Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society
• Notropis chrosomus - Video on Youtube

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