Smalleye shiner

The smalleye shiner (Notropis buccula) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae (carps and minnows). It is found only in the upper Brazos River basin of Texas, which includes the Double Mountain and Salt forks of the upper Brazos.[1] It became a candidate for federal listing as an endangered species of the United States in 2013.[2]

Smalleye shiner
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. buccula
Binomial name
Notropis buccula
F. B. Cross, 1953

Further reading
  • 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)
  • Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Notropis buccula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Notropis buccula" in FishBase. October 2014 version.
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References
  1. NatureServe (2016). "Notropis buccula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Proposed rule: Endangered species status for the sharpnose shiner and smalleye shiner. Federal Register 78(151) 47582. August 6, 2013.

See also


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