Silverside shiner

The silverside shiner ('Notropis candidus) is a species of cyprinid fish.[2][3] It is endemic to the southern United States and occurs in the Mobile Basin in Alabama and Mississippi. It occurs in sand-gravel runs of medium to large rivers.[1] It lives in small schools, escaping to deeper water when disturbed.[4] It grows to 11 cm (4.3 in) total length, although is commonly only half of that size.[3]

Silverside shiner
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. candidus
Binomial name
Notropis candidus
Suttkus, 1980

References

  1. NatureServe (2013). "Notropis candidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202294A18236436. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202294A18236436.en.
  2. Eschmeyer, W. N. and R. Fricke (eds) (4 January 2016). "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 January 2016. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Notropis candidus" in FishBase. October 2015 version.
  4. Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 90 (restricted online copy, p. 90, at Google Books)


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