| Coosa shiner | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Clade: | Pogonichthyinae |
| Genus: | Notropis |
| Species: | N. xaenocephalus |
| Binomial name | |
| Notropis xaenocephalus (Jordan, 1877) | |
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Coosa shiner (Notropis xaenocephalus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. 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
- ↑ 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.
- 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
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