| Notropis |
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| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia
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| Phylum: |
Chordata
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| Class: |
Actinopterygii
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| Order: |
Cypriniformes
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| Family: |
Cyprinidae
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| Subfamily: |
Leuciscinae
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| Genus: |
Notropis
Rafinesque, 1818 |
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| Species |
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About 90, see text.
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Notropis, commonly known as the eastern shiners or (locally) simply "shiners", is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America, and is the second largest genus of freshwater fish on the continent. Most small minnows found in North American belong to Notropis. It should be noted that not all small cyprinids commonly referred to as "shiners" belong to Notropis (Page & Burr 1991). Their closest relatives appear to be the genera Cyprinella (satinfin shiners) and Platygobio (flathead chubs), though their precise relationships have not yet been robustly resolved (Simons & Mayden 1997).
Species
Based on Page & Burr (1991) and FishBase (2007)
* Notropis aguirrepequenoi
* Notropis albizonatus
* Notropis alborus
* Notropis altipinnis
* Notropis amabilis
* Notropis amblops
* Notropis amecae
* Notropis ammophilus
* Notropis amnis
* Notropis amoenus
* Notropis amplamala
* Notropis anogenus
* Notropis ariommus
* Notropis asperifrons
* Notropis atherinoides - Emerald shiner
* Notropis atrocaudalis
* Notropis aulidion
* Notropis baileyi
* Notropis bairdi
* Notropis bifrenatus
* Notropis blennius
* Notropis boops - Bigeye Shiner
* Notropis braytoni
* Notropis buccatus
* Notropis buccula
* Notropis buchanani
* Notropis cahabae
* Notropis candidus
* Notropis chalybaeus
* Notropis chihuahua
* Notropis chiliticus
* Notropis chlorocephalus
* Notropis chrosomus
* Notropis cornutus - Common shiner
* Notropis cummingsae
* Notropis dorsalis
* Notropis edwardraneyi
* Notropis euryzonus
* Notropis girardi
* Notropis greenei
* Notropis harperi
* Notropis heterodon
* Notropis heterolepis
* Notropis hubbsi
* Notropis hudsonius
* Notropis hypselopterus
* Notropis hypsilepis
* Notropis hypsinotus
* Notropis imeldae
* Notropis jemezanus
* Notropis leuciodus - Tennessee shiner
* Notropis lineapunctatus
* Notropis longirostris
* Notropis lutipinnis
* Notropis maculatus
* Notropis mekistocholas- Cape Fear shiner
* Notropis melanostomus
* Notropis moralesi
* Notropis nubilus
* Notropis orca - Phantom shiner (extinct: c.1975)
* Notropis ortenburgeri
* Notropis oxyrhynchus
* Notropis ozarcanus
* Notropis perpallidus
* Notropis petersoni
* Notropis photogenis
* Notropis potteri
* Notropis procne- Swallowtail shiner
* Notropis rubellus - Rosyface shiner
* Notropis rubescens
* Notropis rubricroceus
* Notropis rupestris
* Notropis sabinae
* Notropis saladonis
* Notropis sallaei
* Notropis scabriceps
* Notropis scepticus
* Notropis semperasper
* Notropis shumardi
* Notropis signipinnis
* Notropis simus
* Notropis spectrunculus
* Notropis stilbius
* Notropis stramineus- Sand shiner
* Notropis telescopus - Telescope shiner
* Notropis texanus
* Notropis topeka
* Notropis uranoscopus
* Notropis volucellus
* Notropis welaka
* Notropis winchelli
* Notropis xaenocephalus
References
- "Notropis". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. March 2007 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2007.
- Page, Lawrence M. & Burr, Brooks M. (1991): Freshwater Fishes, p. 131, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN 0-395-91091-9
- Simons, Andrew M. & Mayden, Richard L. (1997): Phylogenetic Relationships of the Creek Chubs and the Spine-Fins: an Enigmatic Group of North American Cyprinid Fishes (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). Cladistics 13(3): 187-205. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1997.tb00315.x (HTML abstract)
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