Summary ²

The sand shiner (Notropis stramineus) is a widespread North American species of freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family. Sand shiners live in open clear water streams with sandy bottoms where they feed in schools on aquatic and terrestrial insects, bottom ooze and diatoms.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Richard L. Mayden, Saint Louis University, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.boldsystems.org/archive/image.php?id=bold.org/146386
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notropis_stramineus

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