Red River shiner

Red River Shiner
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cypriniformes
Family:Cyprinidae
Subfamily:Leuciscinae
Genus:Notropis
Species: N. bairdi
Binomial name
Notropis bairdi
C. L. Hubbs & Ortenburger, 1929

The Red River shiner (Notropis bairdi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis.

It is endemic to the United States, where it is found in the Red River in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

References

  1. NatureServe (2016). "Notropis bairdi". 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. 86 (restricted online copy, p. 86, at Google Books)
  • Red River shiner on FishBase


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