A handful of endangered Topeka shiners

A USFWS employee kneels in the water with chest waders on, holding about a dozen Topeka shiners in their cupped hands. The Topeka shiners are silver and gold with bright red fins.

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A handful of endangered Topeka shiners

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Photo By/Credit

Kimberly Emerson/USFWS

Facility

La Crosse Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office

Minnesota-Wisconsin Ecological Services Field Office

Windom Wetland Management District

Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge

Ecosystem

Prairie

River/stream

Species

Notropis topeka

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Subject tags

Endangered and/or Threatened species

Fish passage

Fishes

Freshwater fish

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