Rainbow minnow
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Notropis chrosomus | ||||||||||||
( Jordan , 1877) |
The rainbow minnow ( Notropis chrosomus ) is a small freshwater fish from the carp family .
features
The rainbow minnow becomes about five to eight centimeters long. It generally has a translucent pink to gold color and a silver-black stripe on its sides. Their belly is golden to bluish and their fins are reddish. In addition, large parts of their skin often have a bluish tinge. The adult male rainbow minnow changes appearance during the breeding season and then temporarily has blue ventral fins , a purple head and a red nose.
distribution
The natural range are the southern states of the USA, especially Alabama and Georgia . Originally the rainbow minnow was endemic to the Mobile River system . There it occurs mainly in the catchment areas of the Alabama River and the Coosa River . But now there are populations in some rivers that belong to the catchment area of the Tennessee River . The rainbow minnow is kept as an ornamental fish in both aquariums and ponds.
The spawning season of the rainbow minnow is between May and June.
swell
- Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes . Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 9780890968802 , p. 109 ( limited online version in Google Book Search - USA )
- 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 minnow on Fishbase.org (English)
Web links
- Rainbow shiner (February 19, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) - Photo on a Samford University website
- Eric Brodock: Rainbow Shinher ( July 26, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) - Article in Finformation (volume 62, issue 2), a magazine of the Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society
- Notropis chrosomus - video on Youtube
- spawning rainbow minnows - video on Youtube
- Notropis chrosomus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: NatureServe, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2013.