Biology:Coosa shiner

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Short description: Species of fish

Coosa shiner
Notropis xaenocephalus.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
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

  • 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)

Wikidata ☰ Q3763175 entry