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Notropis baileyi

Rough Shiner
NS G5
Collection Details

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes) Cypriniformes (Carps and Minnows) Cyprinidae (Carps and Minnows) Notropis Notropis baileyi (Rough Shiner)

Description

This species account was compiled from FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version 04/2025.) and processed using AI-assisted text extraction. It may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, or formatting. When citing, please reference the original source rather than this page. Learn more about our species accounts.

Characters

Body shape: elongated.

Distribution

North America: Mobile Bay and Pascagoula River drainages in Alabama and Mississippi, USA; Bear Creek system (Tennessee River drainage) in Alabama and Mississippi. Also in Escambia River drainage (and possibly introduced) in Alabama and Florida, and Chattahoochee River drainage in Georgia, USA.

Habitat Associations

Freshwater. benthopelagic.

Biology

Inhabits sand-bottomed and gravel-bottomed flowing pools of headwaters, creeks and small rivers.
Max length: 9.0 cm TL; common length: 5.8 cm TL; max age: 4 years.
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-03-01. Resilience: Medium (tmax=4).

References

Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr (1991) A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p.

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