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Shiner
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see minnow.
More on Shiner
Minnow - common name for the Cyprinidae, a large family of freshwater fish which includes the carp and of which there are some 300 American species.
Red Shiner (Cyprinella lutrensis)
Other Names Red-horse Minnow Description Cyprinella is Greek for "small carp" and lutrensis is derived from the Latin lutra which means "otter", a reference to Otter Creek, Arkansas, ...
River Shiner Behaviour
No observations regarding River Shiner behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about River Shiners ...
Cape Fear shiner (Notropis mekistocholas)
Razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus)
Texas hornshell (Popenaias popeii)
Pale Lilliput pearly mussel (Toxolasma cylindrellus)
Alabama lampmussel (Lampsilis virescens) ...
Shiner perch, Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons, 1854.
Genus Ditrema
Ditrema temminckii Bleeker, 1853.
Ditrema viride Oshima, 1955.
Fishes often eaten by northern river otters include suckers (Catostomus spp.), redhorses (Moxostoma spp.), carp (Cyprinus spp.), chubs (Semotilus spp.), daces (Phinichthys spp.), shiners (Notropis spp.), squawfish (Ptychocheilus spp.), ...
Cave Tetra (Astyanax mixicanus), Bloater (Corgonus hoyi), Blue Gourami (Trichogaster tricopterus), Boeseman's Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia boesemani), Brown Trout, Chinook Salmon, Cardinal Tetra, Clown Loach (Botia macracatha) Cobitidae, Common Shiner ...
The best live bait is a golden shiner, fished under a float or free-lined. Typically, the shiner is hooked through the lips or back with a large hook, 2/0 to 5/0.
These three groups, along with daces, killifish, shiners, topminnows, and others make up a large portion of Michigan's fish species. They can be found in most of the state's aquatic systems and are an essential part of the state's natural heritage.
Y: Yoldia - a clam that lives in relatively deep water
Yellow shiner - a fish that is typically found around docks and pilings. Also called shiner perch
Yellow-eyed Penguin - a penguin native to New Zealand ...
They breed in riffles and shallow, flowing pools, usually in the nests of creek chub or common shiner. As a female moves toward these nests, they are joined by two or more males.
Each bird eats more than 4 pounds of food a day[citation needed], mostly fish such as Cypriniformes like Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), Lahontan Tui Chub (Gila bicolor obesa) and shiners[citation needed], ...
This nocturnal forager uses vegetated wetlands to ambush small fish (carp, eel, minnows, shad, and shiners), crayfish, fiddler crabs, small snakes, mice, rats, chicks of other wading birds, insects (beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, and dragonflies), ...
Warm water temperatures may favor competitors of juvenile steelhead, such as redside shiners (Reeves et al. 1987).
of bream and other Cyprinids, most of them being imported alive from Holland and sold in the Jewish fish markets. In America the name bream is commonly given to the golden shiner minnow (Abramis chrysoleucus), ...
Care and Feeding:
Matamata Turtles are carnivores and feed almost exclusively on live fish. Offer them a variety of prey such as goldfish, platies, mollies, minnows (shiners), Gambusia, guppies, and even earthworms.
Socialist Bird: Unlike the Brown Pelican, the American White Pelican does not dive for its food. Instead it practices cooperative fishing. Each bird eats more than 4 pounds of fish a
day, mostly carp, chubs, shiners, yellow perch, catfish, ...
In this exhibit, see the fish that inhabit the different parts of the Carolina stream. See native fish from brook trout living in the icy mountain waters to the rare Cape Fear Shiner of the Piedmont.
However, spikedace are in great danger due to drought, competition from other fish such as the Red Shiner, human destruction of their habitat, polluted waters, and animal such as cattle who graze on these fish by the water.
system is home to numerous species, including, for instance, various chubs, the Colorado Squawfish, the Razorback Sucker and the Bonytail. The Rio Grande system of the Colorado River drainage system is home to chubs, the Silvery Minnow and shiners.
that are not found in pristine Pine Barrens waters, but are sometimes found in streams that have been altered and degraded by pollution. These species include Tesselated Darter, Bluegill, Largemouth Bass, Pumpkinseed, Brown Bullhead, Golden Shiner ...
 See also: Minnow, Chub, Bass, Catfish, Perch
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