Rosyface shiner

Rosyface shiner

Taxobox
name = Rosyface Shiner


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Cypriniformes
familia = Cyprinidae
genus = "Notropis"
species = "N. rubellus"
binomial = "Notropis rubellus"
binomial_authority = Agassiz, 1850

The 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. It's maximum reported age is 3 years.

References

* 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). [http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2893 Species Summery] . Retrieved 16 August 2006.


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