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Noturus flavus (Stonecat)

Synonyms: Noturus flavis; Noturus luteus; Noturus occidentalis; Noturus platycephalus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Noturus flavus , the stonecat, is a North American freshwater catfish of the family Ictaluridae. Its common name is due to its habit of hiding near or under stones in fast-moving water.
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Attributes

Adult Length [2]  12 inches (31 cm)
Brood Dispersal [2]  In a nest
Brood Egg Substrate [2]  Speleophils (rock cavity)
Brood Guarder [2]  Yes
Litter Size [2]  300
Maximum Longevity [2]  9 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Benthic, Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [2]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Teays - Old Ohio United States Nearctic Temperate Upland Rivers    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Etheostoma caeruleum (Rainbow darter)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Frimpong, 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.
♦ 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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