Animalia > Chordata > Esociformes > Umbridae > Umbra > Umbra pygmaeaUmbra pygmaea (American mud-minnow; Eastern mud-minnow; Eastern mudminnow; Mud minnow)Synonyms: Fundulus fuscus; Leuciscus pygmaeus (homotypic); Melanura annulata; Umbra limi pygmaea; Umbra pygmae; Umbra pygmaea bilineata; Umbra pygmea Language: Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Mandarin Chinese; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Spanish; Swedish The eastern mudminnow (Umbra pygmaea) is a species of freshwater fish belonging to the family Umbridae. It is native to eastern North America, but has been introduced to Europe. It feeds primarily on insect larvae and other small aquatic invertebrates. |
Adult Length [1] | 4.724 inches (12 cm) | Brood Dispersal [1] | In a nest | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Polyphils | Brood Guarder [1] | Yes | Litter Size [1] | 1,500 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 4 years | | Diet [2] | Carnivore | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year |
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Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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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.org♦ 3Jorrit 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. Ecoregions 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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