Biology:Greenhead shiner

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Short description: Species of fish

Greenhead shiner
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. chlorocephalus
Binomial name
Notropis chlorocephalus
(Cope, 1870)
Synonyms

Hybopsis chlorocephalus Cope, 1870

The greenhead shiner (Notropis chlorocephalus) is a North American cyprinid fish, found in the Catawba River system or the Santee River drainage in North Carolina and South Carolina.

References

  • Robert Jay Goldstein, Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards: American Aquarium Fishes. Texas A&M University Press 2000, ISBN:978-0-89096-880-2, p. 100 (restricted online copy, p. 100, at Google Books)

Wikidata ☰ Q3758972 entry