- Rosyface Shiner
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Rosyface Shiner Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes Family: Cyprinidae Genus: Notropis Species: N. rubellus Binomial name Notropis rubellus
Agassiz, 1850The Rosyface Shiner (Notropis rubellus) is a small North American fish found throughout the central and eastern United States and southern Canada in clear pools and riffles in large creeks and small rivers. It can grow to 3.5 inches in length. It is olive-colored to bluish with an orange lateral stripe, and breeding males are reddish. Its maximum reported age is 3 years.
The rosyface shiner eats insects, fish eggs, algae and inorganic material.
References
- Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 9780890968802, p. 110 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
- Boschung, Herbert T., Jr.; Williams, James D.; Gotshall, Daniel W.; Caldwell, David K.; and Caldwell, Melba C. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fishes, Whales, and Dolphins. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 441.
- FishBase (1991). Species Summary. Retrieved 16 August 2006.
- Rosyface Shiner on FishBase.
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