Description:
The Southern Redbelly Dace has a patchy though widespread distribution primarily in the Mississippi and Great Lakes drainages in the central United States. They live in the clear pools of small headwater creeks and springs. Like other members of the Redbelly Dace group, male Southern Redbelly Daces develop bright breeding colors in the early spring with yellow fins and a red belly.
Literature:
- (Articles, if available online, are hyperlinked)
- 1969
- Phillips, G.L. 1969. Accuracy of fecundity estimates for the minnow Chrosomus erythrogaster (Cyprinidae). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 98(3), 524-526.
- Phillips, G.L. 1969. Diet of minnow Chrosomus erythrogaster (Cyprinidae) in a Minnesota stream. American Midland Naturalist, 99-109.
- Phillips, G.L. 1969. Morphology and variation of the American cyprinid fishes Chrosomus erythrogaster and Chrosomus eos. Copeia, 501-509.
- 1968
- Hill, L.G., and T.A. Jenssen. 1968. A meristic study of the redbelly dace, Chrosomus erythrogaster (cyprinidae), from a stream in southern Oklahoma. The Southwestern Naturalist, 55-60.
- Saphir, W. 1934. Artificial Production of the “Wedding Dress” in Chrosomus Erythrogaster. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 31(7), 864-866.
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