Minnow

Name: Minnow

Scientific name: Phoxinus phoxinus

Category: Fish

Nature Stars: 40

What are nature stars?

About: A small fish, up to 10cm long. Sometimes gathers in large shoals. Found in streams and rivers, less commonly in lakes. Feeds on invertebrates and fish eggs.

How to identify: A small fish, brown and greenish barred above with a silvery belly. The male's belly turns pink in the summer, but lacks the spines of sticklebacks.

Where: Found throughout the country.

Natural Superpowers

  • Predator: 40
  • Agility: 60
  • Rarity: 40
  • Cute factor: 50
  • Traveller: 40

Fantastic fact: Female minnows lay up to 1000 eggs each summer.

Photograph credit: Michel Roggo/naturepl

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  • Dunnoc_ita
    • Date: 2018-04-13 16:20:16
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    They are brilliant

  • Dunnoc_ita
    • Date: 2018-04-13 16:20:07
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    They are brilliant

  • Otteratas
    • Date: 2017-04-25 17:15:05
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    i love them too they r cool

  • Ottero
    • Date: 2012-08-23 16:45:47
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    Minnows are really cool!!! I see them in the river in a wood that we visit.

  • Oysterasis
    • Date: 2009-10-21 20:31:59
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    I have caught quite a few of these while pond dipping, or is it stream dipping?

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