Dwelling in the muddy bottom waters of streams, ponds, and marshes, the adults are predominately plankton and insect eaters. From an angler's viewpoint, the main value of mudminnows is as a food for game fish. Mudminnows are good aquarium fish because of their hardiness and tolerance of low dissolved oxygen levels in water. Distribution of the central mudminnow in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of central mudminnows were taken.
White dots represent historic distributions.
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