John
Mysteryman wrote:
>John Bongiovanni wrote:
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>>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
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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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