northern pearl dace

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| image = Margariscus nachtriebi 31403277 (cropped).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=NatureServe |date=2013 |title=Margariscus nachtriebi |volume=2013 |page=e.T15350714A18231013 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T15350714A18231013.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Margariscus nachtriebi

| authority = (Cox, 1896)

| synonyms = * Leuciscus nachtriebi

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The northern pearl dace (Margariscus nachtriebi) is a freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It occurs in Atlantic, Hudson Bay, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River basins in the northern United States and Canada. Its preferred habitat is cool, clear headwater streams, bog drainage streams, ponds and small lakes, and in stained, peaty waters of beaver ponds, usually over sand or gravel.{{cite web | url = http://www.fishbase.se/summary/Margariscus-nachtriebi.html | title = Northern pearl dace Margariscus nachtriebi Cox, 1896 | accessdate = 19 November 2017 | publisher = Fishbase | editor1 = Rainer Froese | editor2 = Daniel Pauly | year = 2017}}