Biology:Blackmouth shiner

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Short description: Species of fish

Blackmouth shiner
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Clade: Pogonichthyinae
Genus: Notropis
Species:
N. melanostomus
Binomial name
Notropis melanostomus
Bortone, 1989

The blackmouth shiner (Notropis melanostomus) is a species of cyprini fish.

It is endemic to the United States . It is found in the Blackwater-Yellow river systems in Florida, Bay Minette Creek in Alabama, and the lower Pascagoula River system in Mississippi.

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. 106 (restricted online copy, p. 106, at Google Books)

Wikidata ☰ Q1947081 entry