| Red shiner | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Cyprinella |
| Species: | C. lutrensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyprinella lutrensis S. F. Baird & Girard, 1853
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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. They are deep-bodied and laterally compressed,[2] and can grow to about 3 inches (7.6 cm) in length. For most of the year, both males and females have silver sides and whitish abdomens. Males in breeding coloration, though, have iridescent pink-purple-blue sides and a red crown and fins (except the dorsal fin which remains dark).[3]
Red shiners can live up to three years. They are omnivorous; they eat both aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates, as well as algae.[4] Red shiners have also been known to eat the eggs and larvae of native fish found in locations where they have been introduced.[5]
- ^ NatureServe.; Lyons, T.J. (2019). "Cyprinella lutrensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T191260A129687569. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T191260A129687569.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Farringer R.T., III, A.A. Echelle, and S.F. Lehtinen. 1979. Reproductive cycle of the red shiner, Notropis lutrensis, in central Texas and south central Oklahoma. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 108, 271–276.
- ^ Mayden, R.L. 1989. Phylogenetic studies of North American minnows, with emphasis on the genus Cyprinella (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). The University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publication, 80, 1-189.
- ^ Goldstein, R.M., & Simon, T.P. (1999). Toward a united definition of guild structure for feeding ecology of North American freshwater fishes, in T.P. Simon, editor. Assessing the sustainability and biological integrity of water resources using fish communities. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 123–202
- ^ Ruppert, J.B., Muth, R.T., Nesler, T.P. (1993). Predation on Fish Larvae by Adult Red Shiner, Yampa and Green Rivers, Colorado. The Southwestern Naturalist, 38(4), 397–399.