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Moxostoma erythrurum, Golden redhorse : gamefish
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North America: Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and Mississippi River basins from New York in USA and Ontario in Canada to North Dakota and south to Alabama and Oklahoma in USA; isolated in southwestern Mississippi, USA; from Potomac River in Maryland to Roanoke River in North Carolina, USA; Mobile Bay drainage in USA.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: L
m
 
?
  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 78.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref.
5723
); common length : 28.8 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref.
12193
); max. published weight: 4.1 kg (Ref.
40637
); max. reported age: 11 years (Ref.
12193
)
Occurs in mud-bottomed to rock-bottomed pools, runs and riffles of creeks and small to large rivers. Occasionally found in lakes (Ref.
5723
,
10294
). Feeds on immature mayflies, caddisflies and midges (Ref.
10294
).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity
|
Reproduction
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Spawning
|
Eggs
|
Fecundity
|
Larvae
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. (Ref.
5723
)
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804
): PD
50
= 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01148 (0.00624 - 0.02112), b=2.98 (2.82 - 3.14), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & Genus-body shape (Ref.
93245
).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278
): 3.0 ±0.39 se; based on food items.
Generation time: 3.5 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1
growth studies.
Resilience (Ref.
120179
): Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (tmax=11).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153
): Moderate vulnerability (39 of 100).
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