Banded killifish
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| Fundulus diaphanus (Lesueur, 1817) |
The banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus), is a North American species of temperate freshwater killifish belonging to the Fundulus genus of the fundulidae family. The natural geographic range extends from Newfoundland to South Carolina, and west to Minnesota. It occupies the Great Lakes drainages.[1] The Banded killifish is the only freshwater killifish found in the Northeastern United States, but can occasionally be found in brackish water.[2]
The banded killifish reaches a maximum length of 10-13 cm.[1][3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Page, Lawrence M. and Brooks M. Burr (1991), Freshwater Fishes, p. 216, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN 0-395-91091-9
- ^ Werner, Robert G. (2004), Freshwater Fishes of the Northeastern United States, p. 206, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY. ISBN 0-8156-3020-4.
- ^ "Fundulus diaphanus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. June 2007 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2007.
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