Northern pearl dace

The northern pearl dace (Margariscus nachtriebi) is a freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It occurs in Atlantic, Hudson Bay, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River basins in the northern United States and Canada. Its preferred habitat is cool, clear headwater streams, bog drainage streams, ponds and small lakes, and in stained, peaty waters of beaver ponds, usually over sand or gravel.[2]

Northern pearl dace
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Leuciscidae
Genus: Margariscus
Species:
M. nachtriebi
Binomial name
Margariscus nachtriebi
(Cox, 1896)
Synonyms
  • Leuciscus nachtriebi

References
  1. NatureServe. 2013. Margariscus nachtriebi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T15350714A18231013. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T15350714A18231013.en. Downloaded on 01 December 2017.
  2. Rainer Froese; Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). "Northern pearl dace Margariscus nachtriebi Cox, 1896". Fishbase. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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