Noturus gyrinus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits lakes , rock-, mud-bottomed or detritus-bottomed pools and backwaters of lowland creeks and small to large rivers .

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Noturus gyrinus • Silurus gyrinus • Silurus gyrinus Mitchill • Silurus gyrinus Mitchill, 1817

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 26-May-1994

Similar Species

Fish Name Tooth Patch on Roof of Mouth Color Pattern Pectoral Spine Jaw Lengths Body Depth/Std Length Similarity Index Slender Madtom No horn-like backward lateral extensions No dark lateral stripe; dorsal, anal, tail fins usually with darker edges Prominent saw-like teeth on posterior margin About equal or upper very slightly longer      Very similar Stonecat Horn-like backward lateral extensions present No dark lateral stripe; dorsal, anal, tail fins with lighter edges or sometimes uniformly pigmented No or a few very fine teeth Upper clearly longer than lower (i.e., subterminal mouth)      Very similar Tadpole Madtom No horn-like backward lateral extensions Often with pencil-thin dark lateral stripe; dorsal, anal, tail fins without darker edges No or a few very fine teeth About equal or upper very slightly longer >22% N/A

Members of the genus Noturus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 33 species and subspecies in this genus:

N. albater (Ozark Madtom) · N. baileyi (Smoky Madtom) · N. crypticus (Chucky Madtom) · N. elegans (Elegant Madtom) · N. eleutherus (Mountain Madtom) · N. exilis (Slender Madtom) · N. fasciatus (Saddled Madtom) · N. flavater (Checkered Madtom) · N. flavipinnis (Yellowfin Grouper) · N. flavus (Stonecat) · N. funebris (Black Mackerel) · N. furiosus (Carolina Madtom) · N. gilberti (Orangefin Characin) · N. gladiator (Piebald Madtom) · N. gyrinus (Tadpole Liparid) · N. hildebrandi (Least Madtom) · N. hildebrandi hildebrandi (Least Madtom) · N. hildebrandi lautus (Least Madtom) · N. insignis (Margined Madtom) · N. insignis atrorus (Margined Madtom) · N. insignis insignis (Margined Madtom) · N. lachneri (Ouachita Madtom) · N. leptacanthus (Speckled Madtom) · N. maydeni (Black River Madtom) · N. miurus (Brindled Madtom) · N. munitus (Freckeled Cardinalfish) · N. nocturnus (Freckled Madtom) · N. phaeus (Brown Madtom) · N. placidus (Neophyte Goby) · N. stanauli (Pygmy Madtom) · N. stigmosus (Northern Mackerel-Scad) · N. taylori (Caddo Madtom) · N. trautmani (Scioto Madtom)

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Further Reading

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• 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. 18.
• A naturalist's rambles about home. New York, Appleton, 1889. url p. 479.
• Adult and juvenile fish, ichthyoplankton and benthos populations in the vicinity of the J. H. Campbell Power Plant, eastern Lake Michigan, 1977 / Ann Arbor, Mich.: Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan, 1978. url p. 250.
• Adult, juvenile and larval fish in the vicinity of the J.H. Campbell Power Plant, eastern Lake Michigan, 1978 / Ann Arbor, Mich.: Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan, 1979. url p. 63.
• An introduction to zoology for the use of high schools / by R. Ramsay Wright. Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1889. url .
• Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum. Trenton, N.J.: MacCrellish & Quigley, url p. 172.
• Bulletin - New York State Museum. Albany: New York State Education Dept. url p. 93.
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• Bulletin / Illinois Natural History Survey. Urbana, State of Illinois, Dept. of Registration and Education, Natural History Survey Division, 1918-1985. url p. 102, p. 324, p. 336, p. 344, p. 345, p. 370.
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• Contributions to North American Ichthyology based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum / by David S. Jordan. Washington: G.P.O., 1877. url .
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• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 129, p. 185, p. 187, p. 381, p. 469, p. 587.
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• Descriptive list of the fishes of Lorain County, Ohio. Oberlin, Pub. by the college, 1892. url .
• Environmental inventory and assessment of Navigation Pools 24, 25, and 26, Upper Mississippi and Lower Illinois Rivers: an electrofishing survey of the Illinois River / Richard E. Sparks. [Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Water Resources Center], 1977. url p. 87.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 287, p. 52.
• Fish and Wildlife Habitat Changes Resulting from Construction of a Nine-Foot Channel on Pools 24, 25, and 26 of the Mississippi River and the Lower Illinois River, Ft. BelvoirDefense Technical Information CenterAPR 1979. url p. 243, p. 443.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 337.
• Fishes in Kansas / Frank B. Cross, Joseph T. Collins; foreword by John E. Hayes, Jr. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas Natural History Museum: c1995. url p. 15, p. 154, fig. 35, page 276, p. 304, p. xv.
• Fishes of Canada's national capital region = Poissons de la région de la capitale du Canada / Ottawa: Dept. of the Environment, Fisheries and Marine Service, 1974. url p. 11, p. 130, p. 192.
• Fishes of the Pamlico-Albemarle Peninsula, N.C.: area utilization and potential impacts / Morehead City, N.C.: N.C. Dept. of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Marine Fisheries, [1984] url p. 43.
• Gas bubble disease: proceedings of a workshop held at Richland, Washington, October 8-9, 1974: cosponsored by Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission / editors, D. H. Fickeisen and M. J. Schneider. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Technical Information Center, Office of Public Affairs, Energy Research and Development Administration, 1976. url p. 45.
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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. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
• Iwamoto, Tomio (from FishBase).
• 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.
• 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 02, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• Sternberg Museum of Natural History: Fish Collection
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 133413
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24818
• Fishbase Species ID: 3037
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13818222
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 164003
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCKA02110
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 15749

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