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30. The Golden Shiner. BREAM. Notemigonus chrysoleucus.

Length, twelve inches. Color, back, blackish; sides, bright golden; fins, yellowish. Lower edge of belly sharp.

The body is deeper and the back more round than that of the Notropis cornutus.

Lives in slow, weedy streams, and bites at worms.

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