Biology:Blackspot shiner

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Blackspot shiner
FMIB 40115 Notropis cayuga atrocaudalis Evermann Type Neches River, Palestine, Texas.jpeg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. atrocaudalis
Binomial name
Notropis atrocaudalis
Evermann, 1892

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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 NatureServe (2013). "Notropis atrocaudalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T202289A18235567. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202289A18235567.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/202289/18235567. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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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