Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Cyprinidae > Lythrurus > Lythrurus ardensLythrurus ardens (Rosefin shiner)Synonyms: Hypsilepis ardens; Notropis ardens Language: Chinese; Czech; Mandarin Chinese The fish has a long and slender body. It also has eight dorsal fin-rays, anywhere from nine to eleven anal fin-rays, thirteen to fourteen pectoral fin-rays and eight pelvic fin-rays. The fish has a dark spot of pigment at the base of its first few dorsal-fins, which distinguishes Lythrurus ardens from similar looking fish in its habitat. In addition, the fish has a stripe that fades as it approaches the dorsa fin and several bands of coloration across the back of the fish. |
Adult Length [1] | 3.543 inches (9 cm) | Brood Dispersal [1] | Hidden | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Lithophils (rock-gravel) | Brood Guarder [1] | No | Litter Size [1] | 1,139 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 3 years | | Diet [2] | Planktivore, Detritivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year |
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Appalachian Piedmont |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Chesapeake Bay |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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