Blackspot shiner
| Blackspot shiner | |
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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: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. atrocaudalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Notropis atrocaudalis Evermann, 1892
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The blackspot shiner (Notropis atrocaudalis) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.[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
[edit]- ^ a b NatureServe (2013). "Notropis atrocaudalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202289A18235567. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202289A18235567.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Notropis atrocaudalis". 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)