| Finescale shiners | |
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| Rosefin shiner (Lythrurus ardens) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Lythrurus D. S. Jordan, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Rutilus ruber Rafinesque, 1820 | |
| Species | |
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Lythrurus, the finescale shiners, is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. There are currently 11 species in this genus.
Species
- Lythrurus alegnotus (Snelson, 1972) (warrior shiner)
- Lythrurus ardens (Cope, 1868) (rosefin shiner)
- Lythrurus atrapiculus (Snelson, 1972) (blacktip shiner)
- Lythrurus bellus (O. P. Hay, 1881) (pretty shiner)
- Lythrurus fasciolaris (C. H. Gilbert, 1891) (scarletfin shiner, scarlet shiner)
- Lythrurus fumeus (Evermann, 1892) (ribbon shiner)
- Lythrurus lirus (D. S. Jordan, 1877) (mountain shiner)
- Lythrurus matutinus (Cope, 1870) (pinewoods shiner)
- Lythrurus roseipinnis (O. P. Hay, 1885) (cherryfin shiner)
- Lythrurus snelsoni (H. W. Robison, 1985) (Ouachita shiner)
- Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) (redfin shiner)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Lythrurus in FishBase. August 2011 version.
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