Biology:Bedrock shiner
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Short description: Species of fish
| Bedrock shiner | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. rupestris
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| Binomial name | |
| Notropis rupestris Page, 1987
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The bedrock shiner (Notropis rupestris) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows. It is endemic to the United States, where it inhabits the lower Caney Fork system and nearby tributaries of the central Cumberland River drainage in Tennessee.
It has an elongated body, a black stripe around its snout and base, a slender body, an arched nape and a dorsal fin.
References
- ↑ NatureServe (2013). "Notropis rupestris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202323A19033293.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/202323/19033293. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN 978-0-89096-880-2, p. 93 (restricted online copy, p. 93, at Google Books)
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Wikidata ☰ Q3757119 entry
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