Fundulus notatus

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Overview

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Common Names

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Description

Family Fundulidae

Distribution: lowlands of North and Middle America from southeastern Canada to Yucatan, including the Mississippi River drainage , Bermuda and Cuba. Many species euryhaline . Interior (ventral arms of maxillaries directed anteriorly, often with pronounced hooks; maxilla twisted, not straight.The family Fundulidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Cyprinodontiformes. It contains 5 genera and 48 species. It may be found in Marine , Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Secondary freshwater. Many members of this family are used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is subcarangiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. This family may be found from 53° n to 18° s and 120° w to 54° e. Etymology of this family name : Latin, fundus = bottom

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits quiet surface water, usually near margins of creeks and small rivers , ponds , and lakes .

Biome: Fresh water . Benthopelagic.

Taxonomy

Ambiguous Synonyms

1. Fundulus zonatus (Agassiz, 1854)

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Fundulus aureus Cope, 1865
2. Fundulus tenellus Baird & Girard, 1853
3. Semotilus notatus Rafinesque, 1820

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Family : Topminnows and killifishes .

Similar Species

Fish Name Lateral Scales Dorsal Fin Origin Color and Pigment Pattern Similarity Index Comments Banded Killifish 39-43 Ahead of anal origin Silvery with irregular dark vertical bars (often faint) on flanks; no dark bar or blotch below eye Very similar Blackstripe Topminnow 31-36 Behind anal origin Olive with thick dark lateral stripe, sometimes with finer incomplete vertical bars giving stripe a zig-zag appearance; no dark bar or blotch below eye N/A Central Mudminnow 34-37 Ahead of anal origin Dark olive green to brown black, mottled with up to 14 distinct to vague dark brown vertical bars; belly yellow to white; dark bar or blotch below eye Moderately similar Starhead Topminnow 30-34 Behind anal origin Olive or silvery with either fine dark vertical bars or lateral stripes (consisting of rows of fine spots); dark bar or blotch below eye Very similar Western Mosquitofish 29-32 Behind anal origin Solid tan or olive, sometimes with fine spots, especially dorsally; dark bar or blotch below eye Very similar Not established in WI, but stocked in the past and known from Illinois north of Chicago

Members of the genus Fundulus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 140 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

F. adinia · F. albolineatus (Whiteline Topminnow) · F. antillarum · F. arlingtonius · F. arnoldi · F. aureus · F. auroguttatus (Banded Topminnow) · F. balboae · Fundulopanchax batesii · F. bermudae (Bermuda Killifish) · F. bifax (Stippled Studfish) · Aphyosemion bitaeniatum · F. blairae (Southern Starhead Topminnow) · F. brasiliensis · F. cadenatus · F. caeruleus · F. catenatus (Northern Squawfish) · F. chrysotus (Golden Toothless Trevally) · F. cingulatus (Banded Topminnow) · F. heteroclitus subsp. heteroclitus · F. confluentus (Marsh Killifish) · F. cingulatus · F. cubensis · F. daiphanus · F. diaphannus · F. diaphanus (Banded Killifish) · F. diaphanus diaphanus (Banded Killifish) · F. diaphanus menona · F. diphanus · F. dispar (Northern Starhead Topminnow) · F. dispar dispar (Northern Starhead Topminnow) · F. dovii · F. dugesii · F. escambiae (Eastern Starhead Topminnow) · F. euryzonus (Broadstripe Topminnow) · F. extensus · F. majalis · F. floridensis · F. floripinnis · F. fonticola · F. funduloides · F. fuscus · F. gardneri · F. goodei · F. grandis (Gulf Killifish) · F. grandissimus (Giant Killifish) · F. grandis grandis (Gulf Killifish) · F. grandis saguanus (Southern Gulf Killifish) · F. guatemalensis · Nothobranchius melanospilus · Fundulopanchax batesii · F. gularis caerulea · F. guttatus · F. henshalli · F. heterclitus · F. heteroclitus (Mummichog) · F. heteroclitus badius · F. heteroclitus bermudae · F. heteroclitus heteroclitus (Killifish) · F. heteroclitus macrolepidotus · F. hetroclitus · F. hispanicus · Gambusia affinis · F. jenkinsi (Saltmarsh Topminnow) · F. julisia (Barrens Topminnow) · F. kansae (Northern Plains Killifish) · F. labialis · F. lima (Baja California Killifish) · F. limbatus · F. lineatus · F. lineolatus (Lined Topminnow) · F. luciae (Spotfin Killifish) · F. macdonaldi · F. macrolepidotus · F. majalis (Striped Killifish) · F. meeki · F. melanospilus · F. menona · F. micropus · F. mudfish · F. multifasciatus · F. neumanni · F. nisorius · F. notalus · F. notatus (Blackstripe Topminnow) · F. notti · F. nottii (Southern Starhead Topminnow) · Profundulus punctatus · F. ocellaris · F. ocellaris confluentis · F. olivaceous · F. olivaceus (Blackspotted Topminnow) · Nothobranchius taeniopygus · F. pachycephalus · F. pallidus · Nothobranchius patrizii · F. palmqvisti · F. paraguayensis · F. paruipinnis · F. parvipinnis (California Killifish)

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Further Reading

• A checklist of the vertebrate animals of Kansas / George D. Potts, Joseph T. Collins. [Lawrence, Kan.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1991. ENG url p. 28.
• 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. ENG url p. 21.
• A preliminary study of the distribution, food and reproductive capacity of some fresh-water amphipods. By George C. Embody. Leipzig, 1912. ENG url p. 30.
• A synoptic list of the fishes known to occur within fifty miles of Chicago, by S. E. Meeks and S. F. Hildebrand. Chicago, 1910. ENG url p. 300.
• An ecological study of southern Wisconsin fishes; the brook silversides (Labidesthes sicculus) and the cisco (Leucichthys artedi) in their relations to the region, with 16 plates and 27 tables, by Alvin Robert Cahn. [Urbana, Ill., The University of Illinois, c1927] ENG url p. 25, p. 45, p. 46, p. 58.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 466.
• Annual report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal year ended Washington: G.P.O., 1914- ENG url p. 12.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• Bibliographia zoologica. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896-1934. MUL url p. 269.
• Breviora. Cambridge, Mass., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. ENG url p. 26.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- ENG url p. 403, p. 503.
• Contents and index to volume 7, numbers 1 to 12, Zoological series / Charles B. Cory. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1912. ENG url p. viii.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: ENG url p. 471.
• Fishes in Kansas / Frank B. Cross, Joseph T. Collins; foreword by John E. Hayes, Jr. Lawrence: University of Kansas Natural History Museum, 1995. ENG url p. 175, p. 276.
• Index to volume I, numbers 1 to 17. Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1900. ENG url p. 318.
• Les moustiques; murs et moyens de destruction, par E. Hegh. Bruxelles, Imprimerie industrielle and financière, 1921. FRE url p. 178.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1946-1996. ENG url p. 232, p. 5.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. ENG url p. 455, p. 458.
• Northern fishes: with special reference to the Upper Mississippi Valley / [by] Samuel Eddy and Thaddeus Surber. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1947] ENG url p. 194, p. 196.
• On some collections of fishes made in the Kankakee and Illinois Rivers [by] O. P. Hay. [Chicago, 1896] ENG url p. 87, p. 90.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commer [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. ENG url p. 364.
• Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr (1991). A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 23, p. 24, p. 397.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. [Washington, Biological Society of Washington] ENG url p. 86.
• Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington, The Commission; U.S. Govt. Print. Off. ENG url p. 312.
• Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al. 1980. A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 174.
• Sanitary entomology; the entomology of disease, hygiene and sanitation, ed. by William Dwight Pierce. Boston: R. G. Badger, [1921] ENG url p. 282.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, ENG url p. 358, p. 367, p. 667.
• The Great Basin naturalist. Provo, Utah, M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University. ENG url p. 177.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng. [etc.]: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux [etc.] ENG url p. 101, p. 129, p. 212.
• The fishes of Illinois / Stephen Alfred Forbes and Robert Earl Richardson. [Springfield, Ill.]Published by authority of the State of Illinois, 1920. ENG url p. 213, p. 213, p. 216.
• The fishes of Illinois / by Stephen Alfred Forbes and Robert Earl Richardson. Danville, Ill.: State Laboratory of Natural History, 1908. ENG url p. 213, p. 213, p. 216.
• The molluscan fauna of the Big Vermilion river, Illinois, with special reference to its modification as the result of pollution by sewage and manufacturing wastes, with fifteen plates and eleven tables, by Frank Collins Baker. [Urbana, Pub. under the auspices of the Graduate school by the University of Illinois press, c1922] ENG url p. 20.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- ENG url p. 16, p. 21, p. 50, p. 92.
• Tulane studies in zoology. New Orleans, Tulane University. ENG url p. 102, p. 102, p. 111, p. 117, p. 119, p. 123, p. 125, p. 126, p. 128, p. 129, p. 130, p. 132, p. 133, p. 171, p. 29, p. 30, p. 30, p. 31, p. 31, p. 32, p. 33, p. 34, p. 38, p. 38, p. 41, p. 41, p. 43, p. 44, p. 44, p. 45, p. 46, p. 47.

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.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 5, 2007.
• Costa, Wilson J.E.M. (from FishBase).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• Lyons, John. WiscFish.org University of Wisconsin, Center for Limnology, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant. Provided photos, physical description, and table comparing similar species.
• Species At Risk Act Public Registry, Government of Canada

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2492651
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24623
• Fishbase Species ID: 3197
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 165663
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCNB04110
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 15028

Footnotes

1. Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr (1991). A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p. [back]

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