Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several North American minnows of the genus Campostoma, having a ridge on the lower jaw used for scraping algae from rocks.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[So called because the males move small stones into a pile to build their breeding nests.]
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There are 400 species of bees, the rare black hawk and endangered Mexican stoneroller, which is a fish.
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There are 400 species of bees, the rare black hawk and endangered Mexican stoneroller, which is a fish.
Restoring Natural Life on the Border Travis Fox 2009
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Streams support a distinctive group of species not widely found elsewhere in Ecoregion 27, including the bigeye shiner, southern redbelly dace, stoneroller, black and golden redhorses, spotted bass, logperch, and orangethroat darter.
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Where nutrient input is high, the central stoneroller is often common.
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