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Golden shiner

January 01, 1970

The golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) is a cyprinid fish native to eastern North America. It is the sole member of its genus. Much used as a bait fish, it is probably the most widely pond-cultured fish in the United States. It can be found in Quebec, and its French name is "Mené jaune" or "Chatte de l'Est".

Golden shiner
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Notemigonus
Rafinesque, 1819
Species:
N. crysoleucas
Binomial name
Notemigonus crysoleucas
(Mitchill, 1814)
Synonyms
  • Cyprinus crysoleucas Mitchill, 1814
  • Cyprinus americanus Linnaeus, 1766
  • Cyprinus hemiplus Rafinesque, 1817
  • Notemigonus auratus Rafinesque, 1819
  • Hemiplus lacustris Rafinesque, 1820
  • Abramis versicolor DeKay, 1842
  • Leuciscus boscii Valenciennes, 1844
  • Leuciscus gardoneus Valenciennes, 1844
  • Luxilus leptosomus Girard, 1856
  • Luxilus seco Girard, 1856
  • Plagyrus americanus Cope, 1865
  • Notemigonus ischanus Jordan, 1877

Taxonomy edit

It is the only North American member of the Old World clade within subfamily Leuciscinae.[2]

Description edit

 
A golden shiner in Newport Aquarium

Though it has been known to reach lengths of 30 cm (12 in), in the wild the golden shiner is usually between 7.5 and 12.5 cm (3.0 and 4.9 in) long. The body is laterally compressed (deep-bodied). The back is dark green or olive, and the belly is a silvery white. The sides are silver in smaller individuals, but golden in larger ones. There can be a faint dusky stripe along the sides. The anal fin is large and has 8-19 rays, while the dorsal fin comprises almost always 8 rays. Scales are relatively large and easily lost when the fish is handled. The mouth is small and upturned. Two characteristics can distinguish the golden shiner from all other minnows: (1) the lateral line has a pronounced downward curve, with its lowest point just above the pelvic fins; and (2) there is a fleshy keel lacking scales on the belly between the pelvic fins and the base of the anal fin. The lack of scales on the keel is important to differentiate the golden shiner from the very similar-looking rudd, Scardinius erythrophtalmus, a European species that has been introduced in a few places in North America.[3] The rudd also has a midventral keel, but that keel bears scales. Golden shiner and rudd can in fact hybridize[4] and hybrids have a few scales on their midventral keel.

Distribution edit

The golden shiner is found throughout the eastern half of North America, north to the St Lawrence River, Great Lakes, and Lake Winnipeg, and west to the Dakotas and Texas. Because of its use as bait, it has also been introduced in many places outside this native range.[5]

Habitat edit

Golden shiners prefer quiet waters and are therefore found in lakes, ponds, sloughs, and ditches. They are sometimes found in the quietest parts of rivers. They like weedy areas. They are fairly tolerant of pollution, turbidity, and low oxygen content. They can also tolerate temperatures as high as 40 °C (104 °F), which is unusually high for a North American minnow.[6]

Diet edit

Golden shiners are omnivorous and crepuscular planktivores.[7] They eat zooplankton, phytoplankton,[7] microcrustaceans,[7] insects, plants, and algae. They can feed at the surface, in mid-water, or at the bottom. They can locate prey visually, or filter-feed on high-density zooplankton without resorting to visual cues.[8] They are themselves food for all manner of game fish such as trout and bass, hence their popularity as bait fish.

Reproduction edit

In the southern parts of their range, golden shiners can start reproducing at one year of age; in Canada, first breeding is more commonly at three years of age. Females lay up to 200,000 sticky eggs each amid vegetation. There is no parental care. Occasionally, like a few other minnows, golden shiners can deposit their eggs in the occupied nests of pumpkinseed, largemouth bass or bowfin (the latter two can be predators of shiners).[9][10][11] This behaviour is called egg dumping and resembles the brood parasitism of birds such as cuckoos, inasmuch as the shiner eggs will benefit from the parental care that pumpkinseed, largemouth bass, and bowfin provide to the content of their nests. In contrast to parasitism by cuckoos, however, the parent's eggs do not suffer from the presence of parasitic eggs, and may actually benefit from a dilution effect when predators attack the brood.[12]

Behavior edit

 
An 1837 watercolor painting of a golden shiner by Jacques Burkhardt.

Golden shiners live in large groups (shoals) that roam widely. Several laboratory studies have shown that the movements of a shoal can be determined by a minority of individuals at the front of it. For example, an individual that knows when and where food is available within a large tank can lead many other fish to the right place at the right time of day.[13] If all fish have similar knowledge, there is still a tendency for some individuals to be found always at the front of a moving shoal, possibly because they are intrinsically hungrier and more motivated to find food.[14] Small fish are also found more often at the front of a shoal than larger fish, again possibly because they are more motivated to find food.[15]

Like other minnows, golden shiners are sensitive to the release of an alarm substance, or schreckstoff, contained within special skin cells. If a predator catches and bites into a minnow, the skin is broken, the substance is released, and other minnows in the vicinity can detect the substance and react to it by leaving the area. The substance can also survive intact in the feces of a predator, and minnows can thus detect the presence of a minnow-eating predator through the presence of its feces. In the laboratory, golden shiners were found to react strongly to water that contained feces from snakes that had eaten other golden shiners, but not nearly as much to water laden with feces from snakes that had eaten green swordtails, a fish that does not possess an alarm substance.[16]

Like other fishes, golden shiners have a good daily time sense and can anticipate the arrival of food when this food is made available at the same time of the day or night.[17][18] They can also do this when there is more than one mealtime a day.[19] This anticipation is expressed as swimming and positioning towards the food source, and other naive individuals can perceive this and join the anticipating fish in the hope of sharing its food.[20]

Golden shiners are also capable of time-place learning (associating different places with different times of day). They can be taught to feed in one part of an aquarium in the morning and a different part in the afternoon; or to feed in one part in the morning, a different part at mid-day, and back to the first part in the afternoon.[21]

Negative effects of environmental toxicants edit

Researchers have found that long-term exposure of golden shiners to methylmercury can cause disadvantageous effects in the function of the nervous, reproductive, immune, and endocrine systems as well as in behavior.[22] For example, golden shiners exposed to methylmercury showed a decline in reproduction through the inhibition of hypothalamus, pituitary, and gonadal function.[23] Many fish showed higher concentrations of the chemical in the brain compared to the rest of the body.[24] Fish exposed to high amounts of mercury showed signs of delayed shoaling after exposure to predators.[24] These fish took up to nearly three times longer to return to pre-exposure behaviors compared to other groups exposed to lower amounts of mercury.[24]

Studies have also seen relationships between tissue damage and exposure to mercury by examining macrophage aggregates in different fish tissues.[22] Using histological analysis, a positive correlation was seen between the total area of macrophage aggregates and total mercury concentration of muscle tissues in the spleen of both male and female golden shiners.[22]

References edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Notemigonus crysoleucas.
  1. ^ NatureServe (2013). "Notemigonus crysoleucas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T184098A18233267. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T184098A18233267.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Schönhuth, Susana; Vukić, Jasna; Šanda, Radek; Yang, Lei; Mayden, Richard L. (2018-10-01). "Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Holarctic family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinoidei)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127: 781–799. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.026. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 29913311. S2CID 49292104.
  3. ^ United States Geological Survey: http://fl.biology.usgs.gov/Carp_ID/html/scardinius_erythrophthalmus.html
  4. ^ Burkhead, N.M., and J.D. Williams. 1991. An intergeneric hybrid of a native minnow, the golden shiner, and an exotic minnow, the rudd. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 120:781–795.
  5. ^ United States Geological Survey: https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=579
  6. ^ Coad, B.W., Waszczuk, H., and Labignan, I., 1995, Encyclopedia of Canadian fishes, Canadian Museum of Nature.
  7. ^ a b c "Notemigonus crysoleucas (Golden shiner)". Animal Diversity Web.
  8. ^ Reebs, S.G., 2002, Plasticity of diel and circadian activity rhythms in fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 12: 349–371.
  9. ^ Shao, B., 1997, Nest association of pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus, and golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas. Environmental Biology of Fishes 50: 41–48.
  10. ^ Katula, R.S., and Page, L.M., 1998, Nest association between a large predator, the bowfin (Amia calva), and its prey, the golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas). Copeia 1998: 220–221.
  11. ^ Kramer, R.H., and Smith, L.L. Jr., 1960, Utilization of nests of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, by golden shiners, Notemigonus crysoleucas. Copeia 1960: 73–74.
  12. ^ Shao, B., 1997, Effects of golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) nest association on host pumpkinseeds (Lepomis gibbosus): evidence for a non-parasitic relationship. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41: 399–406.
  13. ^ Reebs, S.G., 2000, Can a minority of informed leaders determine the foraging movements of a fish shoal? Animal Behaviour 59: 403–409.
  14. ^ Leblond, C., and S.G. Reebs, 2006, Individual leadership and boldness in shoals of golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas). Behaviour 143: 1263–1280.
  15. ^ Reebs, S.G., 2001, Influence of body size on leadership in shoals of golden shiners, Notemigonus crysoleucas. Behaviour 138: 797–809.
  16. ^ Godard, R.D., Bowers, B.B., and Wannamaker, C., 1998, Responses of golden shiner minnows to chemical cues from snake predators. Behaviour 135: 1213–1228.
  17. ^ Reebs, S.G., and M. Laguë, 2000, Daily food-anticipatory activity in golden shiners: a test of endogenous timing mechanisms. Physiology and Behavior 70: 35–43.
  18. ^ Laguë, M., and S.G. Reebs. 2000, Phase-shifting the light-dark cycle influences food-anticipatory activity in golden shiners. Physiology and Behavior 70: 55–59.
  19. ^ Laguë, M., and S.G. Reebs, 2000, Food-anticipatory activity of groups of golden shiners during both day and night. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78: 886–889.
  20. ^ Reebs, S.G., and B.Y. Gallant, 1997, Food-anticipatory activity as a cue for local enhancement in golden shiners (Pisces: Cyprinidae, Notemigonus crysoleucas). Ethology 103: 1060–1069.
  21. ^ Reebs, S.G, 1996, Time-place learning in golden shiners (Pisces: Notemigonus crysoleucas). Behavioural Processes 36: 253–262.
  22. ^ a b c Graves, Stephanie D.; Kidd, Karen A.; Houlahan, Jeff E.; Munkittrick, Kelly R. (April 2017). "General and histological indicators of health in wild fishes from a biological mercury hotspot in northeastern North America". Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 36 (4): 976–987. doi:10.1002/etc.3611. ISSN 0730-7268. PMID 27595668. S2CID 4412253.
  23. ^ Crump, Kate L.; Trudeau, Vance L. (2009). "Mercury-induced reproductive impairment in fish". Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 28 (5): 895–907. doi:10.1897/08-151.1. ISSN 0730-7268. PMID 19102578.
  24. ^ a b c Webber, Hannah M.; Haines, Terry A. (2003). "Mercury effects on predator avoidance behavior of a forage fish, golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas)". Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 22 (7): 1556–1561. doi:10.1002/etc.5620220718. ISSN 0730-7268. PMID 12836981. S2CID 25775602.
  • William F. Sigler and John W. Sigler, Fishes of the Great Basin (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1987), pp. 188–191.

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The golden shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas is a cyprinid fish native to eastern North America It is the sole member of its genus Much used as a bait fish it is probably the most widely pond cultured fish in the United States It can be found in Quebec and its French name is Mene jaune or Chatte de l Est Golden shiner Conservation status Least Concern IUCN 3 1 1 Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Actinopterygii Order Cypriniformes Family Cyprinidae Subfamily Leuciscinae Genus NotemigonusRafinesque 1819 Species N crysoleucas Binomial name Notemigonus crysoleucas Mitchill 1814 Synonyms Cyprinus crysoleucas Mitchill 1814 Cyprinus americanus Linnaeus 1766 Cyprinus hemiplus Rafinesque 1817 Notemigonus auratus Rafinesque 1819 Hemiplus lacustris Rafinesque 1820 Abramis versicolor DeKay 1842 Leuciscus boscii Valenciennes 1844 Leuciscus gardoneus Valenciennes 1844 Luxilus leptosomus Girard 1856 Luxilus seco Girard 1856 Plagyrus americanus Cope 1865 Notemigonus ischanus Jordan 1877 Contents 1 Taxonomy 2 Description 3 Distribution 4 Habitat 5 Diet 6 Reproduction 7 Behavior 8 Negative effects of environmental toxicants 9 ReferencesTaxonomy editIt is the only North American member of the Old World clade within subfamily Leuciscinae 2 Description edit nbsp A golden shiner in Newport Aquarium Though it has been known to reach lengths of 30 cm 12 in in the wild the golden shiner is usually between 7 5 and 12 5 cm 3 0 and 4 9 in long The body is laterally compressed deep bodied The back is dark green or olive and the belly is a silvery white The sides are silver in smaller individuals but golden in larger ones There can be a faint dusky stripe along the sides The anal fin is large and has 8 19 rays while the dorsal fin comprises almost always 8 rays Scales are relatively large and easily lost when the fish is handled The mouth is small and upturned Two characteristics can distinguish the golden shiner from all other minnows 1 the lateral line has a pronounced downward curve with its lowest point just above the pelvic fins and 2 there is a fleshy keel lacking scales on the belly between the pelvic fins and the base of the anal fin The lack of scales on the keel is important to differentiate the golden shiner from the very similar looking rudd Scardinius erythrophtalmus a European species that has been introduced in a few places in North America 3 The rudd also has a midventral keel but that keel bears scales Golden shiner and rudd can in fact hybridize 4 and hybrids have a few scales on their midventral keel Distribution editThe golden shiner is found throughout the eastern half of North America north to the St Lawrence River Great Lakes and Lake Winnipeg and west to the Dakotas and Texas Because of its use as bait it has also been introduced in many places outside this native range 5 Habitat editGolden shiners prefer quiet waters and are therefore found in lakes ponds sloughs and ditches They are sometimes found in the quietest parts of rivers They like weedy areas They are fairly tolerant of pollution turbidity and low oxygen content They can also tolerate temperatures as high as 40 C 104 F which is unusually high for a North American minnow 6 Diet editGolden shiners are omnivorous and crepuscular planktivores 7 They eat zooplankton phytoplankton 7 microcrustaceans 7 insects plants and algae They can feed at the surface in mid water or at the bottom They can locate prey visually or filter feed on high density zooplankton without resorting to visual cues 8 They are themselves food for all manner of game fish such as trout and bass hence their popularity as bait fish Reproduction editIn the southern parts of their range golden shiners can start reproducing at one year of age in Canada first breeding is more commonly at three years of age Females lay up to 200 000 sticky eggs each amid vegetation There is no parental care Occasionally like a few other minnows golden shiners can deposit their eggs in the occupied nests of pumpkinseed largemouth bass or bowfin the latter two can be predators of shiners 9 10 11 This behaviour is called egg dumping and resembles the brood parasitism of birds such as cuckoos inasmuch as the shiner eggs will benefit from the parental care that pumpkinseed largemouth bass and bowfin provide to the content of their nests In contrast to parasitism by cuckoos however the parent s eggs do not suffer from the presence of parasitic eggs and may actually benefit from a dilution effect when predators attack the brood 12 Behavior edit nbsp An 1837 watercolor painting of a golden shiner by Jacques Burkhardt Golden shiners live in large groups shoals that roam widely Several laboratory studies have shown that the movements of a shoal can be determined by a minority of individuals at the front of it For example an individual that knows when and where food is available within a large tank can lead many other fish to the right place at the right time of day 13 If all fish have similar knowledge there is still a tendency for some individuals to be found always at the front of a moving shoal possibly because they are intrinsically hungrier and more motivated to find food 14 Small fish are also found more often at the front of a shoal than larger fish again possibly because they are more motivated to find food 15 Like other minnows golden shiners are sensitive to the release of an alarm substance or schreckstoff contained within special skin cells If a predator catches and bites into a minnow the skin is broken the substance is released and other minnows in the vicinity can detect the substance and react to it by leaving the area The substance can also survive intact in the feces of a predator and minnows can thus detect the presence of a minnow eating predator through the presence of its feces In the laboratory golden shiners were found to react strongly to water that contained feces from snakes that had eaten other golden shiners but not nearly as much to water laden with feces from snakes that had eaten green swordtails a fish that does not possess an alarm substance 16 Like other fishes golden shiners have a good daily time sense and can anticipate the arrival of food when this food is made available at the same time of the day or night 17 18 They can also do this when there is more than one mealtime a day 19 This anticipation is expressed as swimming and positioning towards the food source and other naive individuals can perceive this and join the anticipating fish in the hope of sharing its food 20 Golden shiners are also capable of time place learning associating different places with different times of day They can be taught to feed in one part of an aquarium in the morning and a different part in the afternoon or to feed in one part in the morning a different part at mid day and back to the first part in the afternoon 21 Negative effects of environmental toxicants editResearchers have found that long term exposure of golden shiners to methylmercury can cause disadvantageous effects in the function of the nervous reproductive immune and endocrine systems as well as in behavior 22 For example golden shiners exposed to methylmercury showed a decline in reproduction through the inhibition of hypothalamus pituitary and gonadal function 23 Many fish showed higher concentrations of the chemical in the brain compared to the rest of the body 24 Fish exposed to high amounts of mercury showed signs of delayed shoaling after exposure to predators 24 These fish took up to nearly three times longer to return to pre exposure behaviors compared to other groups exposed to lower amounts of mercury 24 Studies have also seen relationships between tissue damage and exposure to mercury by examining macrophage aggregates in different fish tissues 22 Using histological analysis a positive correlation was seen between the total area of macrophage aggregates and total mercury concentration of muscle tissues in the spleen of both male and female golden shiners 22 References edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Notemigonus crysoleucas NatureServe 2013 Notemigonus crysoleucas IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013 e T184098A18233267 doi 10 2305 IUCN UK 2013 1 RLTS T184098A18233267 en Retrieved 12 November 2021 Schonhuth Susana Vukic Jasna Sanda Radek Yang Lei Mayden Richard L 2018 10 01 Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Holarctic family Leuciscidae Cypriniformes Cyprinoidei Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127 781 799 doi 10 1016 j ympev 2018 06 026 ISSN 1055 7903 PMID 29913311 S2CID 49292104 United States Geological Survey http fl biology usgs gov Carp ID html scardinius erythrophthalmus html Burkhead N M and J D Williams 1991 An intergeneric hybrid of a native minnow the golden shiner and an exotic minnow the rudd Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 120 781 795 United States Geological Survey https nas er usgs gov queries factsheet aspx SpeciesID 579 Coad B W Waszczuk H and Labignan I 1995 Encyclopedia of Canadian fishes Canadian Museum of Nature a b c Notemigonus crysoleucas Golden shiner Animal Diversity Web Reebs S G 2002 Plasticity of diel and circadian activity rhythms in fishes Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 12 349 371 Shao B 1997 Nest association of pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus and golden shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas Environmental Biology of Fishes 50 41 48 Katula R S and Page L M 1998 Nest association between a large predator the bowfin Amia calva and its prey the golden shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas Copeia 1998 220 221 Kramer R H and Smith L L Jr 1960 Utilization of nests of largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides by golden shiners Notemigonus crysoleucas Copeia 1960 73 74 Shao B 1997 Effects of golden shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas nest association on host pumpkinseeds Lepomis gibbosus evidence for a non parasitic relationship Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41 399 406 Reebs S G 2000 Can a minority of informed leaders determine the foraging movements of a fish shoal Animal Behaviour 59 403 409 Leblond C and S G Reebs 2006 Individual leadership and boldness in shoals of golden shiners Notemigonus crysoleucas Behaviour 143 1263 1280 Reebs S G 2001 Influence of body size on leadership in shoals of golden shiners Notemigonus crysoleucas Behaviour 138 797 809 Godard R D Bowers B B and Wannamaker C 1998 Responses of golden shiner minnows to chemical cues from snake predators Behaviour 135 1213 1228 Reebs S G and M Lague 2000 Daily food anticipatory activity in golden shiners a test of endogenous timing mechanisms Physiology and Behavior 70 35 43 Lague M and S G Reebs 2000 Phase shifting the light dark cycle influences food anticipatory activity in golden shiners Physiology and Behavior 70 55 59 Lague M and S G Reebs 2000 Food anticipatory activity of groups of golden shiners during both day and night Canadian Journal of Zoology 78 886 889 Reebs S G and B Y Gallant 1997 Food anticipatory activity as a cue for local enhancement in golden shiners Pisces Cyprinidae Notemigonus crysoleucas Ethology 103 1060 1069 Reebs S G 1996 Time place learning in golden shiners Pisces Notemigonus crysoleucas Behavioural Processes 36 253 262 a b c Graves Stephanie D Kidd Karen A Houlahan Jeff E Munkittrick Kelly R April 2017 General and histological indicators of health in wild fishes from a biological mercury hotspot in northeastern North America Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 36 4 976 987 doi 10 1002 etc 3611 ISSN 0730 7268 PMID 27595668 S2CID 4412253 Crump Kate L Trudeau Vance L 2009 Mercury induced reproductive impairment in fish Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28 5 895 907 doi 10 1897 08 151 1 ISSN 0730 7268 PMID 19102578 a b c Webber Hannah M Haines Terry A 2003 Mercury effects on predator avoidance behavior of a forage fish golden shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 22 7 1556 1561 doi 10 1002 etc 5620220718 ISSN 0730 7268 PMID 12836981 S2CID 25775602 William F Sigler and John W Sigler Fishes of the Great Basin Reno University of Nevada Press 1987 pp 188 191 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Golden shiner amp oldid 1185804245, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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