Re: NANFA-- Unknown shiner - help please
Mysteryman (bestfish_at_alaweb.com)
Thu, 01 May 2003 13:39:40 -0700
John Bongiovanni wrote:
>
> This fish looks very similar to a weed shiner. It was captured in a slough just off the Sabine River in East
> Texas. The amber color is accurate and when collected the dorsal and caudal were more redish. The weed shiner does not have the amber color. A behavioral difference is that the weed shiner flicks its caudal lobes together to propel itself. The unknown "wags" its caudal.
> Any Idea what it is?
>
> john
>
> http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/maxx8/vwp?.dir=/Aquarium+Photos/OSRB&.dnm=unknown-shiner.jpg
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It looks like an Ironcolor Shiner to me, Notropis chalybaeus. How it got
in the Sabine river is a mystery, though. They're only supposed to be
found a few hundred miles further south, in the Colorado river drainage
near Austin. You should probably have that one verified by the
authorities. Who knows? If it IS an Ironcolor, you may have made a
significant discovery.
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