Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Cyprinidae > Rhinichthys > Rhinichthys atratulusRhinichthys atratulus (Eastern blacknose dace; Blacknose dace)Synonyms: Cyprinus atratulus; Cyprinus atronasus; Rhinichthys atratulus atratulus; Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris; Rhinichthys atronasus Language: Chinese; Czech; Danish; Finnish; French; German; Mandarin Chinese Blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Rhinichthys.Two subspecies, R.A Atratulus and R.A Obtusus, occur throughout its range. It is dark brown to olive on its dorsal surface and silvery white below, the two shades separated by the darkly pigmented lateral line. In the breeding season, males develop darker pigmentation and an orange lateral line. Blacknose dace live in streams and rivers across eastern N.A, where they feed upon small invertebrates and microscopic biological matter. They may provide forage for larger fish. |
| Adult Length [1] | 3.937 inches (10 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [1] | Hidden | | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Lithophils (gravel-sand) | | Brood Guarder [1] | No | | Litter Size [1] | 750 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 4 years |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore, Planktivore, Detritivore | | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [3] | 1 year |
|
| Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
|
Algonquin Provincial Park |
IV |
1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Antietam National Battlefield |
III |
3263 |
Maryland, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Catoctin Mountain Park National Park |
II |
5994 |
Maryland, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve |
|
9859505 |
New York, Vermont, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
|
|
North Carolina, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Gettysburg National Military Park |
V |
3560 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
3161 |
New Jersey, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park |
VI |
715 |
West Virginia, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site |
III |
861 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Hubbard Brook Biosphere Reserve |
|
7809 |
New Hampshire, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Manassas National Battlefield Park |
III |
5132 |
Virginia, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve |
|
|
New Jersey, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
New River Gorge National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
55591 |
West Virginia, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
|
470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
|
20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Pipestone National Monument |
V |
326 |
Minnesota, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Prince William Forest Park |
|
19378 |
District of Columbia, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve |
II |
762028 |
Manitoba, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Rock Creek Park |
|
|
District of Columbia, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic Site |
|
|
New York, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Saint Croix International Historic Site |
|
|
Maine, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site |
III |
139 |
New Hampshire, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Shenandoah National Park |
II |
108221 |
Virginia, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
62563 |
Michigan, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
|
37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Valley Forge National Historical Park |
VI |
3509 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Voyageurs National Park |
II |
177960 |
Minnesota, United States |
|
|
|
|
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.org♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London |
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
|
