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Cyprinidae
Rosyface Shiner
Notropis rubellus
Red face during spawning
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Small
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
SmallRosyface Shiner is a freshwater fish of North America. The species occupies freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 11 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Notropis
- Maximum length
- 11 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- North America: Atlantic Slope from St. Lawrence drainage in Quebec, Canada to James River drainage in Virginia, USA; Great Lakes, Hudson Bay (Red River) and Mississippi River basins from Quebec to Manitoba, Canada and south to North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Order
Family
Conservation status
