Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Catostomidae > Moxostoma > Moxostoma erythrurumMoxostoma erythrurum (Golden redhorse)Synonyms: Catostomus erythrurus; Catostomus erythurus; Moxostoma parvidens; Moxotoma erythrurum; Myxostoma euryops; Ptychostomus bucco Language: Czech; Danish The golden redhorse, Moxostoma erythrurum, is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Ontario and Manitoba in Canada and the Midwestern, southern, and eastern United States. It lives in calm, often silty or sandy waters in streams, small to large rivers, and lakes. A bottom-feeder, it feeds on microcrustaceans, aquatic insects, detritus, algae, and small mollusks. The golden redhorse spawns in the spring. |
| Adult Length [1] | 31 inches (78 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [1] | In the open | | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Lithophils (gravel-sand) | | Brood Guarder [1] | No | | Litter Size [1] | 23,350 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 11 years |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 4.947 lbs (2.244 kg) | | | Diet [3] | Planktivore, Detritivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | | Female Maturity [1] | 3 years 6 months |
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IUCN Category |
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Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Buffalo National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
59947 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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North Temperate Lakes LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Wisconsin, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Saint Croix International Historic Site |
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Maine, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Wilson's Creek National Battlefield |
V |
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Missouri, United States |
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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. ♦ 2de 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 ♦ 3Myers, 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♦ 4Gibson, 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
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