Whitetail shiner
| Whitetail 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: | Cyprinella |
| Species: | C. galactura
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyprinella galactura (Cope, 1868)
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The whitetail shiner (Cyprinella galactura) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.[2] It inhabits the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky, Atlantic slope headwaters (upper Savannah and Santee river systems, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia), the upper New River drainage in West Virginia and Virginia, and the Ozark Plateau and Ouachita Mountains portions of the White and St. Francis river systems in Missouri and Arkansas.
References
[edit]- ^ NatureServe (2013). "Cyprinella galactura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T202079A15364032. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202079A15364032.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cyprinella". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
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