River shiner

The river shiner (Notropis blennius) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is found in the United States and Canada, where it inhabits the Hudson Bay basin from Alberta to Manitoba, south through the Red Red River in Minnesota and North Dakota; and the Mississippi River basin from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, west to eastern Colorado, and east to West Virginia.

River Shiner

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. blennius
Binomial name
Notropis blennius
(Girard, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Alburnops blennius Girard, 1856
  • Episema jejuna Forbes, 1878
  • Notropis jordanii Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893

References

  1. NatureServe (2016). "Notropis blennius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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