Richardsonius balteatus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Minnows or carps ; Inhabits runs and flowing to standing pools of headwaters , creeks , and small to medium rivers ; lakes and ponds . Usually over mud or sand , often near vegetation. Occurs in schools [1]. Fry feed on diatoms , copepods , ostracods , and other small planktonic and demersal crustaceans[1]. Diet changes to terrestrial and aquatic insects, algae, mollusks, fish eggs (including their own), and small fishes like other redside shiners, other minnows , and trout[1]. Preyed upon by mergansers, loons, and mink [1].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Click on the language to view common names.

Description

Habitat

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Abramis balteatus (Richardson • Abramis lateralis (Girard • Cyprinus balteatus • Cyprinus balteatus Richardson • Cyprinus balteatus Richardson, 1836 • Leuciscus balteatus (Richardson • Leuciscus balteatus lateralis (Girard • Leuciscus gilli Evermann • Leuciscus siuslawi Evermann & Meek • Richardsonius balteatus • Richardsonius lateralis Girard

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Richardson, J. The fish. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of of the northern parts of British America. (3): 327 p., 1836.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 11-May-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Richardsonius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

R. balteatus (Richardson´s Minnow) · R. balteatus balteatus (Columbia River Minnow) · R. balteatus hydrophlox (Columbia River Minnow) · R. egregius (Lahontan Redside)

More Info

• Search for Pictures: images.google.com
• Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
• Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
• Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books

Further Reading

• A genetic survey of lakes in the Cabinet Wilderness Area and proposed inland rainbow trout recovery / a report to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service by Michael Hensler, Joe Huston, & G. Kevin Sage. [Helena, Mont.]: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, 1996. url p. 15.
• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 17.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 37, p. 56.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url .
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 117, p. 160, p. 175, p. 23.
• Clark Fork Basin Project status report and action plan / prepared by Howard E. Johnson, [and] Carole L. Schmidt. Helena, Mont.: Clark Fork Basin Project, Office of the Governor, [1988] url p. 142.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 10, p. 325, p. 36, p. 588.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 105, p. 119, p. 122, p. 167, p. 168, p. 171, p. 180, p. 190, p. 244, p. 245, p. 262, p. 272, p. 366, p. 469, p. 580, p. 581, p. 586.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 107, p. 660.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1978 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 23, p. 267, fig. 3, page 27, p. 36.
• Keys to the fishes of Washington, Oregon and closely adjoining regions, by Leonard P. Schultz. Seattle, Wash., University of Washington Press, 1936. url p. 221, p. 224.
• Management of artificial lakes and ponds. New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp.[1962] url p. 268.
• Montana outdoors. Helena, Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks url p. 23.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 202.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 110, p. 185, p. 3.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 89, p. 93.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 821.
• Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 112, p. 118.
• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6]. .. Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]1855-60. url , p. 278, p. 278, p. 279, p. 362, p. 362, p. 388, p. 397.
• Some fresh-water fishes of British Columbia / [Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology], 1936. url p. 60.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 590.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 6.
• The Big Blackfoot River Fisheries and restoration investigations for 2006 and 2007 / [Missoula, Mont.]: Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, [2008] url .
• The Canadian field-naturalist. 50 1936 Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url green , p. 102, p. 35, p. 36, p. 421, p. 422.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 56 1996 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 13, fig. 3, page 142.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 50 1973 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 136.
• The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama / by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1896-1900. url p. 239.
• The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the N By J. G. Cooper, M. D., and Dr. G. Suckley. .. This edition contains a new preface, giving a sketch of the explorations, a classified table of contents, and the latest additions by the authors. With f London, Baillière brothers, 1859. url p. 362, p. 397.
• Trematodes of the Pacific Northwest, an annotated catalog [by] Ivan Pratt [and] James E. McCauley. Corvallis, Oregon State University Press[1961] url p. 112, p. 21, p. 25.
• Zoogeography. A symposium presented on August 26-27, 1957 [under the prime auspices of the Pacific Section of the Society of Systematic Zoology] at the Stanford University joint meeting of the American Institute of Washington, 1958. url p. 205.

Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• McEachran, John (from FishBase).
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Burke Museum: University of Washington Fish Collection
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Alberta: University of Alberta Ichthology Collection
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 137503
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24325
• Fishbase Species ID: 2949
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13763466
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 163528
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCJB39010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 15724

Footnotes

1. Scott, W.B. and E.J. Crossman (1973). Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184:1-966. [back]

©2004-2012 David Stang. All rights reserved.