The back and upper sides are emerald greenish to straw colored, and the ventral side of the fish is a silvery white color. Live emerald shiners are a bright, iridescent, silvery green with a silver mid-lateral band.
Emerald shiners are most likely the most abundant fish in the Mississippi. They range to the gulf coast from Texas to Alabama, and are especially prevalent in the Mississippi Basin. It is a quite common fish and is often used as a bait fish.Įmerald shiners are native to North America they are widely distributed throughout Canada, and south to Virginia and Texas. It feeds on small organisms such as zooplankton and insects, congregating in large groups near the surface of the water. It can grow to 3.5 inches in length and is found across North America from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, commonly in large, deep lakes and rivers, though sometimes in smaller bodies of water as well. The identifying characteristic of the emerald shiner is the silvery emerald color on its sides. The emerald shiner ( Notropis atherinoides) is one of hundreds of small, silvery, slender fish species known as shiners.
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