
FIS013-00085
Rainbow shiners (Notropis chrosomus) in spawning colors, from a private collection in Knoxville, Tennessee.
This species has translucent color from pink to golden with a silver-black stripe along its flanks. The base of its fins are of a reddish color. Adult males change their color during the mating period. Their ventral fins become blue, their head turns purple and their nose turns red.
Keywords
- animal portrait
- black background
- Blue
- captivity
- Colorful
- Conservation Fisheries
- Fish
- freshwater fish
- Knoxville
- multi colored
- Notropis chrosomus
- odd
- part of
- Photo Ark
- rainbow shiners
- ray-finned fish
- red
- side view
- spawning colors
- studio shot
- Tennessee
- two animals
- unique
- waist up
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This photo is part of the Photo Ark.