Red freshwater fish
Map of the native and non-native distribution of red shiners ( Cyprinella lutrensis) in the United States These include habitats degraded by human disturbance, and those with poor water quality (such as polluted waterways), natural physiochemical extremes, and seasonally intermittent flows. Red shiner are habitat generalists in that they are adapted to favor a wide range of environmental conditions that are not ideal to most other fish species. They are tolerant of areas of frequent high turbidity and siltation, but they tend to avoid waters with high acidity. Red shiners are found naturally in a variety of aquatic habitats, including backwaters, creek mouths, streams containing sand and silt substrates, riffles, and pools. Red shiners are capable of generating viable hybrid offspring with closely related species, such as the blue shiner and the blacktail shiner. The average clutch size, however, is 585 eggs and they may have five to 19 clutches in one reproductive season. Females can release up to 16 batches per day with up to 71 eggs per batch. In addition to spawning in crevices like other members of the genus Cyprinella, red shiners also broadcast their eggs and attach them to rocks or vegetation. The spawning season for red shiners is generally from mid-April through September. Red shiners have also been known to eat the eggs and larvae of native fish found in locations where they have been introduced. They are omnivorous they eat both aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates, as well as algae. Males in breeding coloration, though, have iridescent pink-purple-blue sides and a red crown and fins (except the dorsal fin which remains dark). For most of the year, both males and females have silver sides and whitish abdomens.
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They are deep-bodied and laterally compressed, and can grow to about three inches in length.
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The red shiner or red-horse minnow ( Cyprinella lutrensis) is a North American species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.
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Leuciscus bubalinus Baird & Girard, 1853.Notropis lutrensis (Baird & Girard, 1853).Leuciscus lutrensis Baird & Girard, 1853.