释义 |
redbelly dace noun or red-bellied dace : either of two small No. American cyprinid fishes (Phoxinus eos and P. erythrogaster) that are widely but irregularly distributed from the Hudson Bay drainage to New Brunswick and southward and westward to New Mexico, are dusky greenish black above with a creamy or pale yellow stripe along each side bounded by narrower black stripes, the belly deep red and the fins golden more-or-less marked with black and red, and esteemed in Europe as aquarium fishes |