Coosa shiner

Coosa shiner
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Subfamily:Leuciscinae
Genus:Notropis
Species: N. xaenocephalus
Binomial name
Notropis xaenocephalus
(Jordan, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Hybopsis xaenocephalus Jordan, 1877

Coosa shiner (Notropis xaenocephalus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is endemic to the United States where it inhabits the Coosa and Tallapoosa river systems in the Mobile Bay drainage above the Fall Line in southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, and eastern Alabama.

References

  1. NatureServe (2016). "Notropis xaenocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  • Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 106 (restricted online copy, p. 106, at Google Books)
  • Coosa shiner on FishBase


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