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Golden Shiner

notemigonus crysoleucas

The Golden Shiner is a shiny little fish that loves to swim in schools! With its bright golden color, it sparkles like a treasure in the water!

Hábitat: Freshwater lakes and rivers across North America.

Aspecto

The Golden Shiner has a sleek, compressed body with a small, pointed head. Its sides shimmer with a bright golden-silvery sheen, sometimes showing a faint darker stripe along its length. Large, reflective scales give it a metallic appearance.

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Golden Shiner

Categoría

Peces

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

Golden Shiners are farmed as popular bait, helping anglers catch bigger fish!

Golden Shiners can survive in water with low oxygen, thriving where other fish cannot!

Their shiny, reflective scales act like tiny mirrors, making them hard for predators to spot!

These fish form massive schools with thousands, moving like a shimmering liquid cloud!

Habilidades especiales

Golden Shiner has highly reflective, silvery scales that help them blend into bright surface waters, confusing predators.

Golden Shiner can gather in large groups because of their strong social instinct, which helps them confuse and deter predators.

Golden Shiner can leap out of the water quickly that helps them escape from fast-moving aquatic predators.

Medidas y detalles

Longitud: 7.5-30 cm
Peso: 0.05-0.2 kg
Esperanza de vida: 3-7 años
Velocidad de nado: 10 km/h
Profundidad máxima: 5 m
Tipo de agua: Agua dulce

Dieta y alimentación

These omnivores eat tiny bugs, algae, and bits of plants they find floating or on the bottom.

Alimentos principales

zooplankton
insect larvae
algae
plant detritus
small crustaceans

Método de búsqueda

Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Major predator in many lakes.

eaten by

Chain Pickerel

Esox niger

Ambushes them from aquatic weeds.

eaten by

Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Wades in shallow water to snatch.

eats

Water Flea

Daphnia pulex

Feeds on tiny crustaceans.

Rasgos

Social

Los animales sociales viven en grupos organizados, cooperando para obtener beneficios de supervivencia como la búsqueda de alimento, la defensa y la cría de descendencia.