Taillight shiner (Notropis maculatus)

Scientific name: Notropis maculatus Hay, 1881

Taillight shiner (Notropis maculatus)

The Taillight shiner (Notropis maculatus) is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae.

Biology

Usually occurs near vegetation in swamps, ponds, backwaters, pools of small to large rivers and oxbow lakes. Feeds on microcrustaceans (chydorid cladocerans, cyclopoid copepods, ostracods), rotifers, unicellular algae (desmids and diatoms), and small dipteran larvae.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Notropis maculatus
Family
Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps)
Order
Cypriniformes (Carps)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
7.6
Common length
5.2
Environment
Freshwater; benthopelagic
Climate
Subtropical
Distribution
North America: in Atlantic, Gulf, and Mississippi River basins from Cape Fear River in North Carolina, USA to Sabine River in Texas, USA; north in Former Mississippi Embayment to southern Illinois, USA; throughout Florida, USA except in extreme southern tip.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (tmax=1)

Sources

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

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