Pugnose shiner (Notropis anogenus)

Scientific name: Notropis anogenus Forbes, 1885

Pugnose shiner (Notropis anogenus)

The Pugnose shiner (Notropis anogenus) is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae.

Biology

Adults usually occur over sand and mud in clear vegetated lakes and vegetated pools and runs of creeks and rivers. Oviparous.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Notropis anogenus
Family
Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps)
Order
Cypriniformes (Carps)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
5.8
Environment
Freshwater; benthopelagic
Climate
Temperate
Distribution
North America: Lake Ontario drainage of Ontario in Canada and New York to North Dakota and central Illinois (where now extirpated) in the USA. Mostly restricted to Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins but also in Red River drainage (Hudson Bay basin) of Minnesota and South Dakota in the USA.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Near Threatened (NT)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (tmax=3)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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