Coosa shiner
(Redirected from Alburnops xaenocephalus)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Alburnops |
| Species: | A. xaenocephalus
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| Alburnops xaenocephalus (Jordan, 1877)
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Coosa shiner (Alburnops xaenocephalus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.[2] It is endemic to the United States where it inhabits the Coosa and Tallapoosa river systems in the Mobile Bay drainage above the Fall Line in southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, and eastern Alabama.
References
[edit]- ^ NatureServe (2013). "Notropis xaenocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202336A18235989. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202336A18235989.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Alburnops". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- 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)
- Coosa shiner on FishBase