Blackspot shiner
The blackspot shiner (Notropis atrocaudalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.[2] It is endemic to the United States and found in the lower Brazos River drainage of eastern Texas east to the Calcasieu River drainage of southwestern Louisiana and the Red River drainage of southeastern Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern Louisiana.[1][2] It grows to 7.6 cm (3.0 in) total length.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. atrocaudalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Notropis atrocaudalis Evermann, 1892 | |
References
- NatureServe (2016). "Notropis atrocaudalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Notropis atrocaudalis" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
- Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 89 (restricted online copy, p. 89, at Google Books)
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