Distribution of Fishes in the Red River of the North Basin on Multivariate Environmental Gradients
Cyprinidae
Golden Shiner
Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill), the golden shiner, was collected by Woolman (1896) from the Sheyenne River at Lisbon, where it was described as rare at that time (Figure A26). Olson (1932) collected 15 specimens from the South Branch Buffalo River; and Deason and Nelson found it in 1938 in the Tamarack River, a tributary to Upper Red Lake (UMMZ 1994). The golden shiner has been found in the western portion of the basin only in the Sheyenne River, where site collections in its upper reaches have consisted of as many as 20 individuals. It is most common in the tributaries of the eastern basin, where it has been found at 30% of the stream sites sampled in the NLF ecoregion since 1962 (Table 4).
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