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分类 / 名称 俗名 | 同种异名 | Catalog of Fishes(属, 种) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei > Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Fundulidae (Topminnows and killifishes)
Etymology: Fundulus:Latin, fundus = bottom; a peculiar name for a topminnow, coined for a bottom species of Atlantic coast being "the abode of the fundulus mudfish" (Ref. 45335). More on author: Lesueur.
North America: Atlantic Slope drainages from Newfoundland in Canada to Peedee River in South Carolina, USA; St. Lawrence-Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins from Quebec to Manitoba in Canada, and south to southern Pennsylvania, northern Illinois and northeastern Nebraska in the USA. Two subspecies were recognized: Fundulus diaphanus diaphanus on Atlantic Slope; and Fundulus diaphanus menona found elsewhere. 北美洲: 從加拿大的紐芬蘭到 Peedee 河在美國南卡羅萊那州的大西洋斜坡流域; 來自魁北克到加拿大的曼尼托巴的聖勞倫斯河-五大湖區與密西西比河流域, 而且南至在美國的賓州南部，伊利諾州北部與東北方的內布拉斯加。
大小 / 重量 / 年龄
成熟度: Lm? range ? - ? cm Max length : 13.0 cm TL 雄鱼/尚未辨别雌雄; (Ref. 5723); common length : 6.3 cm TL 雄鱼/尚未辨别雌雄; (Ref. 12193)
Adults inhabit shallow, quiet margins of lakes, ponds and sluggish streams, usually over sand or mud and often near vegetation. They enter brackish water. They form schools a few inches below surface of water (Ref. 5723, 86798). Euryhaline and salinity-tolerant (Ref. 5951). Food consists of small crustaceans, mollusks and worms (Ref. 93252). Not a seasonal killifish. Is easy to maintain in the aquarium (Ref. 27139).
Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 663p. (Ref. 86798)
世界自然保护联盟红皮书 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
