Re: NANFA-- Soque River snorkeling/daily humour

Noturus_at_aol.com
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:01:03 EDT

In a message dated 07/17/2001 8:38:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
roselawn_at_mindspring.com writes:

Now
will someone please tell me why the yellowfin shiner has red fins?

Steven A. Ellis
Kennesaw, GA

They don't...at least not the ones I've collected. The one's I've taken from
the upper Broad in NC had VERY yellow fins.......but there's alot of
taxonomic confusion between these and the greenhead shiners. Maybe Fritz can
shed some light here.

J.R.

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