Adults inhabit pools and main channels of medium to large rivers, usually over sand and gravel . They feed on cladocerans and a variety of immature aquatic insects . Migratory behaviour is undetermined .
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Behavioural data for River shiner is currently being reviewed.
Freshwater; benthopelagic; non-migratory . Temperate; 55°N - 30°N North America: Hudson Bay basin from Manitoba to Alberta, Canada (absent in eastern Kansas) and south through Red River in Minnesota and North Dakota, USA.
cladocerans and a variety of immature aquatic insects (Ref
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