Bluenose shiner
Pteronotropis welaka
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- National record
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Recorded profile
- habitat summary
- Bluenose shiners inhabit backwaters and river swamps to spring-run streams and are often associated with areas of aquatic vegetation and deep pools (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001, Gilbert 1992, Bass et. al. 2004). In Florida, there are two disjunct distributions, the St. Johns River basin and the western panhandle with no known occurrences between the St. Johns and the Apalachicola rivers (Gilbert, 1992). The first specimens were collected from the St. Johns River, near Welaka, in 1897 by William C. Kendall (Bass and Hoehn, 2010).
- diet
- diet of the bluenose shiner consists of insects and rotifers (microscopic aquatic species).
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