Palezone shiner
📖 Overview
Adults inhabit clean, clear waters of flowing pools and runs . They are found over bottoms with fractured bedrock, cobble, and gravel mixed with clear sand . Migratory behaviour is undetermined .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 7. A slender, cylindrical, straw-colored minnow distinguished by a broad depigmented supralateral stripe along side bordered ventrally by narrow, black midlateral stripe and dorsally by darkly pigmented dorsal scale margins; predorsal stripe wanting or obsolescent; and postdorsal stripe absent . No breeding colors . Breeding male pectoral fin with shagreen-like tubercle arrangement .
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Palezone shiner is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Freshwater; benthopelagic; depth range 0 - 1 m . Temperate North America: Known only from one small stream each in the Cumberland River drainage (Little South Fork, Kentucky) and Tennessee River drainage (Paint Rock River, Alabama), USA.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
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